Publications of W. Sansby

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 W. Sansby

  • Byfield, Nicholas. The principles, or, The patterne of wholesome words. Containing a collection of such truths as are of necessitie to be belieued vnto saluation, separated out of the body of all theologie. Made euident by infallible and plaine proofes of scriptures. And withall, the seueral vses such principles should be put to, are abundantly shewed. A proiect much desired, and of singular vse for all sorts of Christians. By N. Byfield, preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex. London: Printed by W. Sansby [sic], for Phile. Stephens and Christ. Meridith, dwelling at the Golden Lyon in Pauls Church-yard, 1627. ESTC No. S120660. Grub Street ID 140288.