Publications of W.P. for

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.P. for

  • Simpson, Christopher. A compendium: or, introduction to practical musick in five parts. Teaching, by a new and easie method, 1. The rudiments of song. 2. The principles of composition. 3. The use of discords. 4. The form of figurate descant. 5. The contrivance of cannon. By Christopher Simpson. The fifth edition with additions: much more correct than any former, the examples being put in the most useful cliffs.. London: printed by W.P. for John Young musical-instrument seller, at the Dolphin and Crown in St. Paul's-Church-Yard: and sold also by John Walsh, at the Harp and Haut-Boy, in Cathern-Street in the Strand, 1714. ESTC No. T77980. Grub Street ID 299888.