Publications of Wilson and

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 Wilson and

  • Millthrop Association. We whose names are hereunto subscribed, being land owners and inhabitants of the said town and neighbourhood of Millthrop, in the county of Westmorland. Do hereby unanimously agree, that we are fully resolved to prosecute at our joint expence, with the utmost rigour of the law; ... every person ... who shall be guilty of any burglary, felony, theft, ... Kendal: printed by Wilson and Branthwaite, [1795]. ESTC No. T173120. Grub Street ID 210422.

Printed for Wilson and

  • Hales, Stephen. Statical essays: containing vegetable statics; or, an account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables. Being an essay towards a natural history of vegetation: Of Use to those who are curious in the Culture and Improvement of Gardening, &c. Also a specimen of an attempt to analyse the air, by a great Variety of Chymio-Statical Experiments, which were read at several Meetings before the Royal Society. Vol. I. By Stephen Hales, D. D. F. R. S. Rector of Farringdon, Hampshire, and Minister of Teddington, Middlesex. The fourth edition, with amendments.. London: printed for Wilson and Nicol, in the Strand; T. Durham, near Charing Cross; G. Keith, in Grace-Church Street; and Robinson and Roberts, No. 25, in Pater-Noster Row, 1769. ESTC No. N23250. Grub Street ID 12613.