Publications of W. Bonny

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 for W. Bonny

  • Irish officer.. An account of the nature, situation, natural strength, and antient, and modern fortifications, of the several cities and garrison-towns in Ireland; that are still possessed by the forces of the late King James; their distances from Dublin, and each from the other: with the several approaches by which they may be attack't. Also, a scenographical discription [sic] of the famous river Shannon, on which stands those two strong places, Limmerick and Athlone: the former of which is besieged by His Majesty in person, the latter by Lieutenant General Douglass. By an Irish officer, who served in the army under the late Duke of Ormond. Licensed, James Fraser. London: Printed for W. Bonny, and R. Hayhurst in Little-Britain, 1690. ESTC No. R1570. Grub Street ID 63615.