Publications of W. Sayes

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. Sayes

  • Ostervald, Jean Frédéric. The grounds and principles of the Christian religion, explain'd in a catechetical discourse, for the instruction of young people. Written in French by J. F. Ostervald, Pastor of the Church of Neufchatel, and Author of a Book, Entituled, A Treatise concerning the Causes of the present Corruption of Christians, and the Remedies thereof. To which is added, a liturgy; Or, Form of publick Prayers, Which are said in the Church of Neufchatel every Saturday at Five of the Clock in the Evening, and were Establish'd in the Month of May, 1702. rendered into English by Mr. Hum. Wanley; and revis'd by Geo. Stanhope, D.D. London: printed by W. Sayes, for William Hawes, at the Rose in Ludgate-Street, 1704. ESTC No. T87841. Grub Street ID 307856.