Publications of William Leake I

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 William Leake I

  • The text is read in the 5. chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, and the 17. verse. [London: P. Short for W. Leake?, 1598?]. ESTC No. S94712. Grub Street ID 152885.
  • Breton, Nicholas. The soules heavenly exercise set downe in diuerse godly meditations, both prose and verse, by Nicholas Breton gent. Imprinted at London: [By R. Bradock] for VVillam Leake, 1601. ESTC No. S113342. Grub Street ID 133082.
  • Southwell, Robert. Marie Magdalens funerall teares. At London: Printed by I[ames] R[oberts] for W[illiam] L[eake], 1602. ESTC No. S117661. Grub Street ID 137330.
  • Shakespeare, William. [Venus and Adonis.]. [London: R. Bradocke for W. Leake, 1602?]. ESTC No. S114108. Grub Street ID 133831.
  • Southwell, Robert. Saint Peters complaint, newly augmented with other poems. London: Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for William Leake: and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the holy Ghost, [1609?]. ESTC No. S117708. Grub Street ID 137376.
  • Rider, John. Riders dictionarie as it was heretofore corrected, and with the addition of above five hvndred words enriched. Hereunto is annexed a dictionary etymologicall, deriuing euery word from his natiue fountaine, with reasons of the deriuations; and many Roman antiquities, neuer any extant in that kinde before. By France Hollyok[e]. To which are ioyned (as may appeare more largely in the title and epistle before the Latine dictionary) many lawful alterations, emendations, and additions of etymologies, differences, antiquities, histories, and their morals. By Nicholas Gray. London: printed by Adam Islip for [Willi]am Leake, 1626. ESTC No. S94900. Grub Street ID 153022.