Publications of W. Oliver

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. Oliver

  • Markham, Robert. A sermon preached in the parish-church of Christ-Church, London, on Thursday May the 20th, 1779: being the time of the yearly meeting of the children educated in the charity-schools, in and about the cities of London and Westminster. By the Reverend Robert Markham, D. D. Rector of St Mary's, Whitechapel. Published at the Request of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, And the Trustees of the several Schools. To which is annexed, An account of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. London: printed by W. Oliver, Printer to the said Society, in Bartholomew-Close; and sold by John, Francis and Charles Rivington, Booksellers, at (no 62) the Bible and Crown in St Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCLXXIX. [1779]. ESTC No. T90262. Grub Street ID 310120.

Sold by W. Oliver

  • De Coetlogon, C. E. Pious memoirs: or, an account of some remarkable circumstances attending the death of W. W. a child of ten years of age. London: printed and sold by W. Oliver; sold also by T. Vallance, and J. Mathews, 1777. ESTC No. N37575. Grub Street ID 25537.

Printed for W. Oliver

  • Markham, Robert. A sermon preached at St Clement Dane's on Sunday, March 9th, and at Christ-Church, Spitalfields, on Sunday, June 29th, 1777. For the benefit of the Humane Society, instituted for the recovery of persons apparently dead by drowning. By Robert Markham, D.D. rector of St Mary's, Whitechapel. London: Printed for the society, by W. Oliver, printer to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, at No 12, Bartholomew-Close; and sold by J. F. and C. Rivington, in St Paul's Churchyard; E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry; W. Owen, at Temble Bar; L. Tomlinson, No 124, in Whitechapel; and D. Prince, at Oxford; and at Chester, Liverpool, Manchester, Stafford, Salop and Southampton, MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]. ESTC No. T9292. Grub Street ID 312659.