Publications of Forester's-Wynd, 1720.

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 Forester's-Wynd, 1720.

  • Erskine, Ralph. The believer's dowry: or, a poem upon Isaiah 54. 5. Thy maker is thy husband. Directed unto, and for the comfort of all that know any thing of an union betwixt Christ and their souls, containing many Hints at the Excellency and Fulness of Christ the Believer's Husband, and at the glorious Privileges of all that are really Espoused and United unto Christ. Cor. 11. 12. I have espoused thee to one Husband. The author is one who seeks the prayers of the Godly reader. Edinburgh: printed and sold by Robert Brown in [Forester's]-Wynd, 1720. ESTC No. T17225. Grub Street ID 209723.