Publications of W. Griffin

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 W. Griffin

  • Bottarelli, Giovan Gualberto. Il re alla caccia, a new comic opera, taken from The miller of Mansfield; as perform'd at the King's-Theatre in the Hay-Market. The music entirely new by Signor Alessandri. London: printed by W. Griffin, Bookseller and Stationer, in Catherine-Street, in the Strand, [1769]. ESTC No. T68801. Grub Street ID 292945.

Sold by W. Griffin

  • Theobald, John. The young wife's guide, in the management of her children. Containing, every thing necessary to be known relative to the nursing of children, from the time of their Birth, to the Age of Seven Years; together with a plain and full account of every Disorder, to which Infants are subject, and a collection of efficacious Remedies, suited to every Disease. By John Theobald, M.D. Author of Medulla Medicinae. Compiled at the Command of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. London: printed and sold by W. Griffin, in Fetter-Lane, R. Withy, in Cornhill, G. Kearsly, opposite St. Martin's Church, in Ludgate-Street, and E. Etherington, at York, MDCCLXIV. [1764]. ESTC No. N14353. Grub Street ID 4235.

Printed for W. Griffin

  • Arnold, Samuel. Omnipotence. A sacred oratorio. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market. Set to music by Mr. Handel. Humbly Inscribed to his Majesty. London: printed for W. Griffin, in Catharine-Street, Strand, 1773. ESTC No. N10357. Grub Street ID 366.