Publications of Willianm [sic]

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 Willianm [sic]

  • Penkethman, John. A preservative poem or Patridophilus his precepts De arte præservandi. Illustrated with arguments and animadversions aswell pleasant as profitable. By due observation whereof, the sickenesse named the plague and all other infectious diseases may be assuredly avoided. Mos necessary, aswell for those that are fled from London and Westminster or the parts neere adjacent, and doe purpose to returne: as for those that are still resident. Digested under twenty severall heads which are presented by the page next folowing the epistle. London: printed by Anne Griffin for Willianm [sic] Leake, and to be sold at his shop in Chancery-lane, 1636. ESTC No. S94663. Grub Street ID 152851.