Publications of William Osborne

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 William Osborne

  • A guide to the oratory: or, an historical account of the new sect of the Henleyarians. Containing, I. The birth, education and qualifications of the founder, John Henley, M. A. Poet, Preacher and Orator. II. Of his Acquiring the Title of Restorer of the Ancient Elocution, and his Founding the Oratory. III. The Confession of Faith signed by Himself, and of his new Common-Prayer-Book. VI. A full Answer to his Antagonists. London: printed by W. Osborn within Aldgate, [1726?]. ESTC No. N18476. Grub Street ID 7948.
  • Osborn's Penny post, or, the London Mercury. To which is added, a collection of state trials; . London [England]: printed by W. Osborn,. ESTC No. P2362. Grub Street ID 56047.

Printed for William Osborne

  • Curll, Edmund. The prisoner's advocate, or, A caveat against under sheriffs, and their officers; jayl-keepers, and their agents. Shewing, I. The great abuse all persons suffer, both before, and after, they are committed to prison. II. The notorious imposition, and fraudulent practices of Springing-Houses detected. III. The orders of the Court of King's-Bench, for regulating all the jayls in England, as to the usage of prisoners, with relation to their lodging, chamber-rent, &c. IV. An exact table of the fees, belonging to the fleet and King's-Bench prisons, and the legal expence of removing may person from one, to the other, by Habeas Corpus. London: printed for W. Osborn, near Aldgate, 1726. ESTC No. T121002. Grub Street ID 171884.
  • Gentleman there resident, Santa-Cruz.. A true and particular narrative of the late strange revolutions at Santa-Cruz, in south-west Barbary. Now possessed by a marabuto, or reputed saint. ... Written by a gentleman there resident, and now faithfully English'd from the Spanish original. . London: printed for J. Wilford; and sold by W. Osborn, 1737. ESTC No. T100413. Grub Street ID 154365.