Publications of W. Wilson

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. Wilson

  • Jephson, Robert. Julia; or, the Italian lover. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane, London. By Robert Jephson, Esq. ... Dublin: printed by W. Wilson, 1787. ESTC No. N2775. Grub Street ID 16990.

Printed for W. Wilson

  • The Parliament of vvomen. With the merrie lawes of them newly enacted. To live in more ease, pompe, pride, and wantonnesse: but especially that they might have superiority and domineere of their husbands: with a new way found out by them to cure any old or new cuckolds, and how both parties may recover their credit and honesty againe. London: printed for W. Wilson and are to be sold by him in Will-yard in Little Saint Bartholomewes, 1646. ESTC No. R208629. Grub Street ID 84857.