Publications of William Dyson

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 for William Dyson

  • Chetham, John. A book of psalmody, containing tunes for Venite exultemus, and the reading psalms, Te Deum, and other hymns, set tunes for Jubilate, and Nunc dimittis. With select anthems and psalm-tunes. ... The third edition, a great part of which was never before published. By John Chetham. London: printed by William Pearson for William Dyson; and sold by him at his shops in Hallifax and Hudderfield [sic]; and by Mr. Hodgson in Skipton, Yorkshire, 1724. ESTC No. T55682. Grub Street ID 282246.