Publications of William Clarke

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 William Clarke

  • Paltock, Robert. Memoirs of the life of Parnese, a Spanish lady of vast fortune. Written by herself: shewing the irresistable force of education: With A True Account of the Hardships she suffered, in Man's Apparel, for eight Years, in different Countries, in the Prosecution of a virtuous Amour with Rockbartez; her Escape from Slavery with Sarpeta, her Master's Daughter; their Flight into Persia; her accidental Marriage there to Rockbartez; and Return. Interspersed with the story of Beaumont and Sarpeta. Translated from the Spanish manuscript, by R.P. gent. London: printed for William Owen, at Homer's Head, near Temple-Bar; and for William Clarke, under the Royal Exchange, Threadneedle Street, MDCCLI. [1751]. ESTC No. T130917. Grub Street ID 179985.
  • Clarke, John. A new grammar of the Latin tongue, comprising all in the art necessary for grammar-schools. To which is annexed, a dissertation upon language. By John Clarke, Author of the Two Essays upon Education and Study, Introduction to the Making of Latin, &c. The fourth edition.. London: printed for W. Clarke, at Shakespear's Head, in Threadneedle-Street, behind the Royal-Exchange,; and sold by J. Mace, and G. Ferraby, in Hull; Mess. Stabler, Bell, and Barstow, in York; and P. Hodges, in Hereford, MDCCLIV. [1754]. ESTC No. N10262. Grub Street ID 266.