Publications of John Williams

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 John Williams

  • Robinson, John. A sermon preach'd before the judges, at the assizes holden at Appleby, for the county of Westmorland. By the Reverend and learned divine J. Robinson, D. D. Printed by the Judges Order. London: printed by John Williams, [1710?]. ESTC No. T95708. Grub Street ID 315209.

Printed for John Williams

  • Gentleman. A letter to M. de Voltaire; with comparatory descants, on the extraordinary composition and incidents of a dramatic poem, called The desert island, written by the author of The orphan of China: also remarks on the tragedy of The siege of Aquileia. By a gentleman. London: printed for John Williams, Bookseller, on Ludgate-Hill, 1760. ESTC No. N10633. Grub Street ID 642.