Publications of W. Young

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. Young

  • Willison, John. The afflicted man's companion: or, A directory for families and persons afflicted with sickness, or any other distress. With directions to the sick, both under and after affliction. Also to the friends of the sick, and others who visit them. And likewise to all how to prepare both for sickness and death, and how to be exercised at the time of dying. With a collection of the dying words of many choice and eminent saints. Necessary for families. By the Rev. Mr. John Willison, late Minister of the Gospel at Dundee. [One line from Job]. Philadelphia: Printed by W. Young, bookseller and stationer, the corner of Chesnut and Second-Streets, M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]. ESTC No. W10163. Grub Street ID 319265.

Sold by W. Young

  • Workman, Benjamin. Gauging epitomized. Or, A Short treatise of gauging, in which that branch is rendered familiar to the meanest capacity. To which are added, accurate tables for finding the mean-diameters of casks by inspection. Also, a comprehensive ullage table, and an accurate method of ullaging casks, by an easy rule adapted to it. The whole illustrated with proper rules and examples. By Benjamin Workman, A.M. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by W. Young, the corner of Chesnut and Second-Streets, M.DCC.LXXX.VIII. [1788]. ESTC No. W12378. Grub Street ID 321644.

Printed for W. Young

  • La Rochefoucauld, François. Moral maxims: by the Duke de la Roche Foucault. Translated from the French. With notes. London: printed for W. Young, in the Strand, and J. Brown, Cornhill, MDCCLXVI. [1766]. ESTC No. T83528. Grub Street ID 303940.