Publications of T. Wise

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 T. Wise

  • Swift, Jonathan. Esquire Bickerstaff's most strange and wonderful predictions for the year 1708. Wherein the Month and Day of the Month are set down, when several most surprizing Accidents shall certainly come to pass, as particularly that the present French King shall Die on the 29th of July. The Pope to Die the 11th of September. The Dquphin the French King's Son to Die on the 7th of May. That Partridge the famous Astrologer is to Die on 29th of March. On the 23d of May a famous Actor of the Play-House will Die a ridiculous Death suitable to his Vocation. Upon the 26th of August will arrive from Flanders such a welcome Express of Victory, that a Thousand Bonfires will be made in London for Joy of the News, and in the same Month a noble Admiral will gain immortal Honour, by obtaining a signal Victory at Sea. On the 6th of June the City of Paris will be Burnt down to the Ground. Towards the end of August will be great Mischief done in Bartholomew-Fair, by the tumbling down of a Booth; with several other strang. London: printed for T. Wise, near Fleet-Street, [1708]. ESTC No. T69060. Grub Street ID 293158.