Publications of John Willis

Note: The following printer, bookseller, or publisher lists are works in progress. They are generated from title page imprints and may reproduce false and misleading attributions or contain errors.

What does "printed by" mean? How to read the roles ascribed to people in the imprints.

In terms of the book trades, the lists below are sorted into up to four groups where: the person is designated in the imprint as having a single role:

  1. "printed by x"; or
  2. "sold by x"; or
  3. "printed for x" or "published by x";

or as having the seller and printer roles in combination, or an absence of the printer's name following "London: printed:" or "London: printed,":

  1. "printed and sold by x"; or "printed for and sold by x"; or "printed by and for x"; or "printed: and sold by x"; or "printed, and sold by x";  and so on.

On this last point, trade publishers may seem to have "printed" or "published" the work, though they did not own the copyright. The lists below reflect only the information on the imprint, except where ESTC provides extra information.

See also "The Meaning of the Imprint."

Printed for John Willis

  • P., T.. The accomplish'd lady's delight, in preserving, physick, beautyfying [sic], cookery, and gardening. Containing, I. The art of preserving, and candying, fruits and flowers, and making all sorts of conserves, syrups, jellies, and pickles. II. The physical cabinet: or, excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery. Also some new receipts relating to the fair sex, whereby they may be richly furnish'd with all manner of beautifying waters, to add loveliness to the face and body. III. The compleat cook's guide: or directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish, after the newest fashion, now in use at the British court; with the making of sauces, pyes pasties, tarts, custards, &c. VI. [sic] The female angler, instructing ladies and others, in the various methods of taking all manner of fish, in the fish-pond or river. V. The lady's diversion in her garden: or, the compleat flowerist, with the nature and use of all sorts of plants and flowers. The eleventh edition inlarged.. London: Printed for John Willis and Joseph Boddington, at the Angel and Bible in Great-Tower-Street, [1732?]. ESTC No. N15858. Grub Street ID 5560.

Author

  • Willis, John. Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de ictero. Quam, ... pro gradu doctoratus, ... eruditorum examini subjicit Joannes Willis, ... . Edinburgi: apud Balfour et Smellie, 1778. ESTC No. T9227. Grub Street ID 312067.