Publications of John 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 John Wilson

  • Billingsley, Samuel. The character of St. Paul as a preacher, considered and recommended. A sermon preach'd at the ordination of the Rev. Mr. William Harris, at Wells in the county of Somerset, April 15. MDCCXLI. By Samuel Billingsley. Publish'd at the Request of the Ministers present, and the principal Hearers. London: printed by John Wilson at the Turk's-Head in Grace-Church-Street; and sold by J. Noon in Cheapside; and James Brackstone, in Cornhill, MDCCXLI. [1741]. ESTC No. N2241. Grub Street ID 11767.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by John Wilson

  • The Friendly instructor; Or, A companion for young ladies and young gentlemen: In which their duty to God, and their parents, their carriage to superiors and inferiors, and several other very useful and instructive lessons are recommended in plain and familiar dialogues. With a recommendatory preface, by the Rev. Dr. Doddridge. London: Printed and sold by John Wilson, at the Turk's-head in Grace-Church-Street; and James Hodges, at the Looking-glass over-against St. Magnus-Church, London-Bridge, MDCCXLI. [1741]. ESTC No. N47397. Grub Street ID 32090.
  • Corbet, John. Self-Imployment in secret: containing I. An enquiry into the state of his soul. II. Thoughts upon painful Afflictions. III. Memorials for practice. Left under the hand-writing of that Learned and Reverend Divine, Mr. John Corbet, Late of Chichester. With a prefatory epistle by the late Reverend Mr. John Howe. Corrected and newly published by S. Wright, D.D. London: printed and sold by J. Wilson. at the Turk's-Head in Grace-Church-Street, MDCCXLI. [1741]. ESTC No. T135212. Grub Street ID 183679.