Publications of M.W., 1665

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 M.W., 1665

  • Dewsbury, William. The discovery of mans return to his first estate, by the operation of the power of God in the great work of regeneration, and a word to the backslider, who hath tasted of the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, and hath turned from the grace of God, into wantonness, and gone back into spiritual Sodome and Egypt, where our Lord is crucified. Also a discovery of mistery Babylon, and her merchants. And a word to the hard hearted unbelieving Iews, professors, who profess Christ in words, but stumble his light, in their consciences, to their own destraction. With a word to all saints, who have set their faces towards Sion, to seek the Lord their God, and to those that are waiting therein, to worship Him in spirit and truth. And a word of consolation, unto the Child of Light; that yet for in darkness, being deeply afflicted, and wounded in spirit; through ignorance of salvation in the new covenant, in Christ Iesus the light. From the spirit of the Lord, written by one, whom t. London: printed for M.W., [1665]. ESTC No. R5260. Grub Street ID 125716.