Publications of Brother W.

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 Brother W.

  • Anderson, James. The constitutions of the antient and honourable fraternity of free and accepted masons. Containing their history, charges, regulations, &c. Collected and Digested, By Order of the Grand Lodge, from their old Records, faithful Traditions, and Lodge-Books, for the use of the lodges, by James Anderson, D.D. And carefully revised, continued, and enlarged, by John Entick, M.A. A new edition, with alterations and additions, ... London: printed for Brother W. Johnston, in Ludgate Street. MDCCLXVII. In the Vulgar Year of Masonry 5767, [1767-1776]. ESTC No. T85395. Grub Street ID 305715.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by Brother W.

  • J. C, Rev.. A sermon preached at Bury St. Edmund's on the 31st. of August, 1772. Before a respectable body of Free and Accepted Masons, ... By the Rev. J.C. ... Bury [St. Edmunds]: printed and sold by Brother W. Green, 1773. ESTC No. T72802. Grub Street ID 296218.