Publications of Iohn Waley

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 Iohn Waley

  • Garcie, Pierre. The rutter of the see w[ith] the hauons, rodes soundinges, kenninges wyndes, flodes and ebbes, daungers [and] coostes of dyuers regio[n]s with ye lawes of the yele of Auleron, [and] the iudgementes of the see. With a rutter of the northe added to the same. [Imprinted at London: by Iohn waley dwelling in Foster lane, [1557]]. ESTC No. S92622. Grub Street ID 151334.

Printed for Iohn Waley

  • Withals, John. A short dictionarie for yonge beginners. Gathered of good authours, specially of Columell, Grapald, and Plini. [Imprinted at London: By Ihon Kingstun, for Iohn Waley and Abraham Vele], Anno, M.D,LVI. [1556]. ESTC No. S120198. Grub Street ID 139834.