Publications of William Otridge

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 for William Otridge

  • Keach, Benjamin. Tropogolia [sic]: a key, to open scripture metaphors, in four books. To which are prefixed arguments to prove the divine authority of the holy scriptures, containing, Book I. Philologia sacra; or, the tropes and figures, in Scripture, reduced under their proper heads, with a brief Explication of each. Book II. The most significant tropes and metaphors, respecting God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; as also the sacred word of God opened and improved by way of parallel, with their disparity; from which striking inferences are deduced. Book III. A practical improvement of the most frequent metaphors, allegories, and similies, of the Old and New Testament. Book IV. Containing such metaphors in the Holy Scriptures as relate to the graces of the Holy Spirit, the blessed ordinances of the Gospel, the holy angels of God, the souls and spirits of men, the church of God, men in general, good men, wicked men, the true ministers of the Gospel, false teachers, false churches, sin, the devil, the means. London: printed by J.W. Pasham, Black-Friars; for William Otridge, no. 134, and James Mathews, no. 18, in the Strand, MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]. ESTC No. N45457. Grub Street ID 30361.