Publications of W. Brown

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. Brown

  • Ordinances made and passed by the Governor and Legislative Council of the province of Quebec. Quebec: printed by W. Brown, M,DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]. ESTC No. W42414. Grub Street ID 352150.

Sold by W. Brown

  • Saunders, James. The compleat fisherman. Being a large and particular account, of all the several ways of fishing now practised in Europe; with abundance of curious secrets and niceties in the art of fishing, as well in the sea, as in lakes, meers, ponds, rivers or brooks; whether by darts, spears, harpoons, nets, hook and line, or any other way whatsoever. More particularly calculated for the sport of angling. With directions for preparing the angle rods, lines, hooks, and baits, proper for every part of the sport respectively; and also for the angler's conduct in rightly applying them. Also, an account of all the principal rivers, lakes, &c. in England; and what kinds of fish are more especially found in them. Collected from the best authors, and from the long experience of James Saunders, Esq; of Newton-Awbery, upon the River Trent. London: Printed and sold by W. Brown, in Black-Horse Alley, 1724. ESTC No. T161344. Grub Street ID 200464.

Printed for W. Brown

  • Hawes, William. An account of the late Dr. Goldsmith's illness, so far as relates to the exhibition of Dr. James's powders: together with remarks on the use and abuse of powerful medicines in the beginning of acute diseases. By William Hawes, apothecary. London: printed for W. Brown, and H. Gardner, in the Strand; J. Hinton, and T. Evans, Paternoster-Row; S. Hooper, Ludgate-Hill; J. Williams, Fleet-Street; and W. Davenhill, opposite the Royal-Exchange, MDCCLXXIV. [1774]. ESTC No. N2023. Grub Street ID 9626.