Publications of W. Strahan

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. Strahan

  • Gentleman of Lincoln's Inn.. The farmer's lawyer; or Every country gentleman his own counsellor. Containing all the laws now in force, that particularly concern the farmer, the country gentleman, the clergy-man, the malster, the hop-planter, the carrier, or any other person whose business or amusements occasion him to reside chiefly in the country. Particulary I. All the laws concerning game brought down to the present period, including two acts passed the last sessions, one relating to moor or hill game, and the other for the better perservation of the game in general. II. The whole law of tithes. III. The act passed last sessions, to reduce into one Act of Parliament, all the statutes concerning highways. IV. An Act passed last sessions, to reduce into one Act of Parliament all the laws concerning turnpike roads. V. The whole law concerning fishing, fish-ponds, rivers, &c. VI. The laws now in force to regulate the making and dury of malt. VII. The laws concerning the making, and selling of cyder, mum and perry. VII. London: printed by W. Strahan, and M. Woodfall, law-printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty. And sold by G. Kearsly, No. 46, Fleet-street, F. Newbury, the Corner of St. Paul's Church Yard, and W. Flexney, opposite Gray's Inn, M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]. ESTC No. T55599. Grub Street ID 282162.

Printed for W. Strahan

  • Pringle, John. Observations on the diseases of the army. By Sir John Pringle, Baronet, President of the Royal Society, And Physician in Ordinary to Her Majesty. The seventh edition, revised and corrected.. London: printed for W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, T. Payne, T. Longman, Wilson and Nicoll, T. Durham, and T. Cadell, MDCCLXXIV. [1774]. ESTC No. N10702. Grub Street ID 709.