Publications of Alexander Weir

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."

Sold by Alexander Weir

  • Cullen, Francis Grant. A narrative of the sufferings and relief of a young girl; strangely molested by evil spirits and their instruments, in the west: collected from authentic testimonies, with a Preface and Postscript. Containing Reflections on what is most Material or Curious, either in the History or Trial of the Seven Witches who were condemned and Burnt in the Gallow Green, of Paisley. Paisley: printed and sold by Alexander Weir, 1775. ESTC No. T147026. Grub Street ID 193620.

Printed for Alexander Weir

  • Ramsay, Allan. The gentle shepherd, a pastoral comedy. By Allan Ramsay. To which is added, Christ's kirk on the green, a poem in three cantos. Glasgow: printed for Alexander Weir, bookseller in Paisley, 1765. ESTC No. N18159. Grub Street ID 7633.