Publications of Wm. and

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 Wm. and

  • An elegiac thought, on the death of the Reverend Mr. Daniel Rowland, of Llangeitho, in the county of Cardigan, who died October, 16th, 1790, ... To which are added, some general meditations upon death, reduced into rhyme. By a Welshman. ... Brecknock: printed by Wm. and Geo. North, 1791. ESTC No. T218335. Grub Street ID 242936.

Sold by Wm. and

  • The Pennsylvania pocket almanack, for the year 1773. ... Calculated for the use of the province of Pennsylvania, and the neighbouring provinces. ... Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Wm. and Thomas Bradford at the London Coffee-House, [1772]. ESTC No. W2383. Grub Street ID 333768.

Printed for Wm. and

  • Hughes, John. The siege of Damascus. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's servants. By John Hughes, Esq;. Dublin: printed for Wm. and Wm. Smith, at the Hercules, in Dame-Street, 1765. ESTC No. T174177. Grub Street ID 211272.