Publications of W. Wilkins

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. Wilkins

  • Johnson, Charles. The cobler of Preston. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's servants. Written by Mr. Johnson. The third edition.. London: Printed by W. Wilkins, at the Dolphin in Little-Britain; and sold by W. Hinchcliffe, at Dryden's Head under the Royal Exchange, 1716. ESTC No. T57010. Grub Street ID 283375.

Printed for W. Wilkins

  • Hoadly. Three lectures on the organs of respiration. Read at the Royal College of Physicians at London, A.D. MDCCXXXVII. being the Gulstonian lectures for that year. To which is added An Appendix, containing Remarks on some Experiments of Dr. Houston's, published in the Transactions of the Royal Society, for the Year 1736. By Benj. Hoadly, Doctor of Physick, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society. London: printed for W. Wilkins; and sold by J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, MDCCXL. [1740]. ESTC No. T63470. Grub Street ID 288732.