Publications of William Flexney

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 Flexney

  • Shepherd, R. An appendix to a sermon on the requisition of subscription to the thirty-nine articles and liturgy of the Church of England. Addressed to the author of Free remarks on the above sermon. London: printed by W. Flexney, 1772. ESTC No. T189875. Grub Street ID 225184.

Sold by William Flexney

  • Harwood, Edward. Reflections on the unacceptableness of a death-bed repentance. By E. Harwood. The second edition, with additions.. London: printed by Samuel Chandler; and sold by J. Waugh; T. Field; E. Dilly; C. Henderson; W. Flexney; and T. Anderton, in Manchester, 1763. ESTC No. N22118. Grub Street ID 11481.

Printed for William Flexney

  • The St. James's magazine. By Robert Lloyd, A.M. London [England]: printed for W[illiam]. Flexney, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn; T[homas]. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; and J[ohn]. Coote, in Pater-noster-Row, MDCCLXII.[1762]-[1764]. ESTC No. P2240. Grub Street ID 55939.
  • Poems: The chimney-sweeper and laundress. The practice of physick. The poet at Guild-Hall. London: printed for William Flexney, 1762. ESTC No. N40370. Grub Street ID 27388.
  • Erskine, Andrew. Letters between the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and James Boswell, Esq;. London: printed by Samuel Chandler; for W. Flexney, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn, MDCCLXIII. [1763]. ESTC No. T77329. Grub Street ID 299467.
  • A letter to a Member of Parliament, Wherein the Power of the British Legislature, And the Case of the Colonists, Are briefly and impartially considered. London: printed for W. Flexney, near Gray's-Inn Gate, Holborn, 1765. ESTC No. N10480. Grub Street ID 492.
  • Sheridan, John, Barrister. The present practice of the Court of King's Bench; containing ample and complete instructions for Commencing And Defending The various Kinds of suits and actions, entering up Judgment, suing out Execution, proceeding in Error from the King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer Chamber, and Parliament, &c. And Calculated Not Only To Guide The Attorney, In The Course Of His Practice, In Cases already settled; but also, by pointing out the Rise and Ground of the various Proceedings, and the several Cases in each already adjudged, to enable him by Analogy to conduct any new Matters that may occur. Containing rules of Court down to Michaelmas term, 1784, And enriched with a Number of very curious and special Precedents of the various Writs, Pleadings, Entries, &c. in Use in the Court of King's Bench; and particularly of Declarations, a great Number of which are very special, and settled by the most eminent Pleaders. To which is added a complete index. By John Sheridan, Esq. Of the Middle-Temple, Ba. London: printed for W. Flexney, opposite Gray's Inn Gate, Holborn; and J. Walker, Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]. ESTC No. N20997. Grub Street ID 10382.
  • Wilson, George. A practical treatise on fines and recoveries: containing the principles, cases and statutes relating to, and a great variety of precedents of, fines and recoveries. Together with Instructions for Drawing, Entering, and Passing them. By the late Serjeant Wilson. The fourth edition corrected, with additions.. London: printed by A. Strahan and W. Woodfall, Law Printers to the King's most excellent Majesty; for W. Flexney; E. and R. Brooke; T. Whieldon and J. Butterworth; and W. Clarke and Son, 1793. ESTC No. N12291. Grub Street ID 2301.