Publications of John Ward.

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 John Ward.

  • Leland, John. A defence of Christianity. In two parts. Part I. The law of nature considered and shewn to be consistent with Reason, and itself-and the Attention to it, productive of the utmost Benefit to Mankind. Part II. The authority and usefulness of revelation and the sacred writings, asserted and vindicated, against the several Objections made to them by the Deists in general, and in particular by the Author of Christianity as old as the Creation. ... . By John Leland, D.D. The second edition, corrected.. London: printed for John Ward. at the King's-Arms in Cornhill, opposite the Royal-Exchange, M.DCC.LIII. [1753]. ESTC No. T139373. Grub Street ID 187222.