Publications of W. Button

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. Button

  • Upton, James. The saints' entrance into Zion. A sermon, occasion'd by the death of the Reverend Mr. Michael Bligh, late pastor of the Baptist Church, at Seven-Oaks, in Kent. By James Upton. With an account of the Lord's dealings with his soul, written by himself. London: printed and sold by W. Button, No. 24, Paternoster-Row. Sold also by T. Wills, Stationers-Court; M. Priestley, (late Trapp) Paternoster-Row, T. Thomas, Houndsditch; and by the author, No. 11, Union-Place, near Blackfriars-Road, [1795]. ESTC No. T66493. Grub Street ID 291242.

Sold by W. Button

  • Burder, Samuel. The moral law considered as a rule of life to believers. Designed as an antidote to Antinomianism. By Samuel Burder. London: printed and sold by W. Button, No. 24, Pater-Noster Row. Sold also by Mathews, Strand; Chapman, Fleet-Street; Priestley, Pater-Noster Row; and Murgatroyd, Chiswell-Street; Luckman and Merridew, Coventry; and James, Bristol, 1795. ESTC No. T103163. Grub Street ID 156819.

Printed for W. Button

  • Williams, Thomas. The age of credulity: a letter to Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, Esq. M.P., in answer to his testimony in favour of Richard Brothers. With an appendix, In Vindication Of The Scripture Prophecies. By the author of "the age of infidelity" - and other tracts. London: printed for W. Button, NO. 24, Paternoster-Row, 1795. ESTC No. N2030. Grub Street ID 9699.