Publications of James Williams

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 James Williams

  • Ferguson, James. The young gentleman and lady's astronomy, familiarly explained in ten dialogues between Neander and Eudosia. To which is added, the description and use of the globes and armillary sphere. Illustrated with copper plates. The sixth edition. By James Ferguson, F.R.S. Dublin: printed by James Williams, MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]. ESTC No. T71367. Grub Street ID 294934.

Printed for James Williams

  • Jacob, Giles. A new law-dictionary: containing the interpretation and definition of words and terms used in the law; as also the law and practice, Under The Proper Heads and Titles: together with such learning as explains the history and antiquity of the law; our Manners, Customs, and Original Government. Collected and Abstracted from All Dictionaries, Abridgments, Institutes, Commentaries, Reports, Year-Books, Charters, Registers, Chronicles, and Histories, Published to this Time. Adapted to the Use of Barristers, Students and Practisers of the Law, Members of Parliament, Justices of Peace, Clergymen, and other Gentlemen, &c. The tenth edition. With great additions and improvements, from the latest Reports and Statutes to this Time. Also many New Titles, not in any other Work of the Kind. Originally compiled by Giles Jacob. Now corrected and greatly enlarged by Owen Ruffhead and J. Morgan, Esquires. Dublin: printed for James Williams, at No. 5. in Skinner-Row, M,DCC,LXXIII. [1773]. ESTC No. N10364. Grub Street ID 372.