Publications of George Woods

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 George Woods

  • Bernard, Richard. The isle of man, or the legal proceedings in Man-Shire against sin. Wherein by way of allegory, the principal malefactors, both in the Heart and Practice are detected and Attached, with their Arraignment and Trial, according to the laws of England, and sentence pronounced upon them, according to the word of God. Written upwards of one hundred and fifty years ago, by the late Rev. Richard Bernard, Rector of Batcomb, in the County of Somerset. Liverpool: printed by George Woods, MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]. ESTC No. N16839. Grub Street ID 6345.