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

  • Wesley, Charles. A sermon preach'd on Sunday, April 4th, 1742; Before the University of Oxford. By Charles Wesley, M.A. student of Christ-Church. The seventh edition.. London: Printed by W. Strahan; and sold by T. Trye, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn; Henry Butler, at the corner of Bow Church-Yard; and at the Foundery near Moorfields, MDCCXLV. [1745]. ESTC No. T5327. Grub Street ID 280231.

Printed for W. Strahan

  • Palliser, Hugh. Minutes of the proceedings at a court-martial, assembled for the trial of Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser, Bart. Published by order of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. As taken by George Jackson, Esq; Judge-Advocate of his Majesty's Fleet. London: printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, MDCCLXXIX. [1779]. ESTC No. N12487. Grub Street ID 2487.