Publications of W. Sergent

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. Sergent

  • The french convert. Being a true relation of the happy conversion of a noble French lady; from the errors and superstitions of popery to the reformed religion; by means of a Protestant gardener her servant. Wherein is shewed Her great and unparallell'd Sufferings on the account of her said Conversion; as also, her wonderful Deliverance from two Assassins hired by a Popish Priest to Murder her; and of her Miraculous preservation in a Wood for two Years; also, how she was at last providentially found by her Husband, who (together with her Parents) was brought over by her Means to the embracing of the True Religion. To which is added, a brief account of the present severe persecutions of the French Protestants. [Preston]: Printed and sold by W. Sergent, in Preston; and J. Drake, in Bolton, [1780?]. ESTC No. T59231. Grub Street ID 285252.

Sold by W. Sergent

  • Pope, Alexander. The rape of the lock. An heroi-comical poem. By Alexander Pope, Esq. Preston: printed and sold by W. Sergent, [1790?]. ESTC No. N13465. Grub Street ID 3383.