Publications of W. Sands

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. Sands

  • Alston, Charles. A second dissertation on quick-lime and lime-water. By Charles Alston, M. D. The King's Botanist in Scotland, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and Professor of Medicine and Botany in the University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: printed by W. Sands, A. Murray, and J. Cochran. Sold by G. Hamilton & J. Balfour, MDCCLV. [1755]. ESTC No. T57777. Grub Street ID 283970.

Printed for W. Sands

  • Mair, John. The tyro's dictionary, Latin and English. Comprehending the more usual primitives of the Latin tongue, digested alphabetically, in the order of the parts of speech. To which are subjoined, in a smaller character, on the lower part of the pages, Lists or Catalogues of their Derivatives and Compounds. Designed as an easy and speedy method of introducing youth to a general acquaintance with the structure of the language, and preparing them for the use of a larger dictionary. The second edition, much enlarged. By John Mair, A.M. Edinburgh: printed by Sands, Murray, and Cochran. For W. Sands, and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, MDCCLXIII. [1763]. ESTC No. N13389. Grub Street ID 3305.