Publications of William Lane

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 William Lane

  • Kimber, John. The trial of Captain John Kimber, for the supposed murder of an African girl, at the Admiralty sessions, before the Hon. Sir James Marriott, Knt. (judge Advocate) and Sir William Ashurst, Knt. &c. on Thursday, June 7, 1792. of which he was most honorably acquitted, and the Two Evidences for the Prosecution committed to Newgate to take their Trials for Wilful and Corrupt Perjury. London: printed by William Lane, Leadenhall-Street; and sold by all the booksellers in Bristol, [1792]. ESTC No. T59694. Grub Street ID 285688.

Sold by William Lane

  • Stevens, George Alexander. A lecture on heads, written by George Alexander Stevens, Esq. with additions by Mr. Pilon; as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewis, At the Theatre Royal Covent Garden, The Royalty Theatre, Well-Close Square, and in various Parts of Great Britain; Also in the East Indies. To which is added An essay on satire. - The Public are requested to observe that there are several spurious Editions of this Lecture, which are not only inelegant but very inaccurate. A new genuine edition corrected.. London: printed and sold by William Lane, 1795. ESTC No. T180958. Grub Street ID 217569.

Printed for William Lane

  • Patrick, F. C.. More ghosts! In three volumes. By the wife of an officer, author of The Irish heiress. . London: printed at the Minerva-Press, for William Lane, Leadenhall-Street, 1798. ESTC No. N10225. Grub Street ID 228.