Publications of r VVilliam

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 r VVilliam

  • Galen. Galens bookes of elementes, as they be in the epitome (whiche may very aptly, in my iudgement, be entituled, for the better vnderstanding of the readers, The originall of all thinges naturall in the vvhole vvorlde: confuting, as well the errours of all them that went befor time, as that hath, or shal folowe hereafter of the Paracelcians: marueilous pleasaunt, and most acceptable for all sharpe wittes, desirous of wisedome,) published foorth of Latine into English, by Iohn Iones, phisition. Imprinted at London: By [William Williamson for] VVilliam Iones, dwelling in Paules Churche yarde, at the southvvest doore of Paules, and are there to be solde, 1574. ESTC No. S122935. Grub Street ID 142461.