Publications of John Wilkie

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."

Sold by John Wilkie

  • Hughes, Joseph. An authentick letter from Mr. Hughes, a gentleman residing at Lisbon, to his friends in London; containing several curious and interesting particulars in relation to the late conspiracy against the King of Portugal; with a circumstantial and affecting Account of the Behaviour of the principal Conspirators at the Place of Execution, who suffered at Lisbon, &c. London: printed and sold by John Wilkie, at the Bible, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, M.DCC.LIX. [1759]. ESTC No. T111183. Grub Street ID 163615.

Printed for John Wilkie

  • White, Robert. Observations on fevers; with an attempt to prove, that the dangerous symptoms and fatal effects, produced by those diseases, generally happen through a deficiency in the materia medica: and propositions for preventing those symptoms and effects, By a safe, easy and immediate Cure. By R. White. London: printed for John Wilkie, No 71, St. Paul's Church-Yard, [1785?]. ESTC No. N12550. Grub Street ID 2550.