Publications of T. Wilson

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 T. Wilson

  • Johnson, R.. The picture-room: containing the original drawings of eighteen little masters and misses. To which are added, moral and historical explanations. Published under the inspection of Master Peter Painter, professor of polite arts. The cuts by Bewick. York: printed by T. Wilson and R. Spence, 1800. ESTC No. N37547. Grub Street ID 25508.

Printed for T. Wilson

  • Longueville, Peter. The hermit; or, the unparalleled sufferings and surprising adventures of Philip Quarll, an Englishman: who was lately discovered upon an uninhabited island in the South-Sea; ... With an elegant frontispiece. A new edition.. London [i.e. York?]: printed for A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater; and for T. Wilson and R. Spence, York, 1788. ESTC No. N2331. Grub Street ID 12669.