Publications of John Williams the first

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 Williams the first

  • Brownrig, Ralph. A sermon preach'd on the coronation day of K. Charles I. March 7. 1644. in S. Mary's in Cambridge. By Bishop Brownrigg when he was vice-chancellor of the Vniversity, for which he was cast into prison. London: printed by John Williams at the Crown in S. Pauls Churchyard, 1661. ESTC No. R36388. Grub Street ID 118672.

Printed for John Williams the first

  • White, Thomas. An exclusion of scepticks from all title to dispute: being an answer to The vanity of dogmatizing. By Thomas White. London: printed for John Williams at the Crown and Globe in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1665. ESTC No. R11142. Grub Street ID 59456.