Publications of William Dawson

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 William Dawson

  • The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England; together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches. Oxford: printed at the Clarendon Press, by William Dawson, Thomas Bensley, and Joshua Cooke, Printers to the University; and sold by W. Dawson, at the Oxford Bible Warehouse, in Paternoster Row, London, [1796]. ESTC No. T81295. Grub Street ID 302126.

Printed for William Dawson

  • Michaelis, Johann David. Introductory lectures to the sacred books of the New Testament. By John-David Michaelis, Professor in his Majesty's University at Gottingen. London: printed for William Dawson, No 7, Paternoster-Row, MDCCLXXX. [1780]. ESTC No. N2227. Grub Street ID 11638.