Publications of Wynkyn de Worde

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 Wynkyn de Worde

  • Lefèvre, Raoul. The recuyles or gaderi[n]ge to gyder of [the] hystoryes of Troye how it was destroyed & brent twyes by [the] puyssaunt Hercules & [the] thyrde & generall by [the] grekes. [Enprynted in London: in Flete strete at the sygne of the sonne by Wynken de Worde, the yere of our lorde god. M.CCCCC. and. ii. [1502]]. ESTC No. S100690. Grub Street ID 359214.
  • Galfridus. Promptuariu[m] paruulorum clericor[um] quod apud nos Medulla gra[m]matice appellatur scolasticis q[uia] maxime necessariu[m] impressu[m] Lo[n]donijs per Wyna[n]du[m] de Worde hac i[n] vrbe in parochia sa[n]cte Brigide (i[n] the fletestrete) ad signu[m] solis co[m]mora[n]te[m]. [Impressum Londoniis: per egregium Wyndadum de Worde in parrochia sancte Bridgide in vico anglice nuncupato (the flete strete) sub intersignio solis aurei commorantem, anno incarnationis Dominice . M.ccccc.xii. die vero .xxvi. me[n]sis Maii. [1512]]. ESTC No. S115286. Grub Street ID 134977.
  • De magistratibus veterum Romanoru[m]. [London: W. de Worde,], [Anno post virgineu[m] partu[m]. xv. supra Millesium[m] quingentesimu[m] octauo kalendas Martias [8 March, 1515]]. ESTC No. S95831. Grub Street ID 153735.
  • Whittington, Robert. De magistratib[us] veteru[m] Romanorum. [[London: Printed by Wynkyn de Worde], Anno post virgineu[m] partu[m] xvii. supra millesimu[m] quingentesimu[m] [1517] nono kale[n]das Augusti]. ESTC No. S1006. Grub Street ID 130037.