Publications of William Williamson

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 by William Williamson

  • Robinson, Richard. The rewarde of wickednesse discoursing the sundrye monstrous abuses of wicked and vngodlye worldelinges: in such sort set downe and written as the same haue bĂ©ene dyuersely practised in the persones of popes, harlots, proude princes, tyrauntes, Romish byshoppes, and others. VVith a liuely description of their seuerall falles and finall destruction. Verye profitable for all sorte of estates to reade and looke vpon. Nevvly compiled by Richard Robinson, seruaunt in housholde to the right Honorable Earle of Shrovvsbury. A dreame most pitiful, and to be dreaded. [Imprinted at London: in Pawles Churche Yarde, by William Williamson, [1574]]. ESTC No. S110696. Grub Street ID 130690.

Printed for William Williamson

  • Beaumont, Francis. The scornful lady, a comedy. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. Dublin: printed for William Williamson at Mecaenas's-Head in Bride-Street, MDCCLVIII. [1758]. ESTC No. T47188. Grub Street ID 275160.

Author

  • Williamson, William. Stenography: or, a concise and practical system of short-hand writing. To which is added, an appendix, containing a brief survey of the rise and progress of the art; with an impartial Account of the various Methods which have been published since its first Introduction. By W. Williamson, Short-Hand Writer, Furnival's Inn Court, Holborn. Second edition, with considerable improvements.. London: printed for the author, and sold by him, also by W. Brown, Bookseller, corner of Essex Street, Strand, 1782. ESTC No. T94610. Grub Street ID 314182.