Publications of W. Reeve

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. Reeve

  • Mendez, Moses. The chaplet. A musical entertainment. As it is perform'd by His Majesty's company of comedians, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lune. The music compos'd by Dr. Boyce. The third edition.. London: Printed and sold by W. Reeve, in Fleet-street; and M. Cooper, in Pater-noster-Row, M.DCC.LIX. [1759]. ESTC No. T65977. Grub Street ID 290789.

Sold by W. Reeve

  • The history of Polly Willis. An orphan. The second edition.. London: printed and sold by W. Reeve; and by the booksellers in town and country, 1756. ESTC No. N17843. Grub Street ID 7312.

Printed for W. Reeve

  • Attorney at Law. The law of arrests in both civil and criminal cases: shewing for what causes, by what authority, by whom, and how arrests are to be made; ... In two parts. By an attorney at law. The second edition.. London]: In the Savoy: printed by Henry Lintot, (assignee of Edw. Sayer, Esq;) for W. Reeve; J. Worrall; and S. Birt, 1753. ESTC No. N10254. Grub Street ID 257.