Publications of William W.

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 William W.

  • Acts and proceedings of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, in the United States of America. May 16th, 1799. Philadelphia: Printed by William W. Woodward, no. 17, Chesnut Street, 1799. ESTC No. W10085. Grub Street ID 319180.

Sold by William W.

  • Fries, John. The two trials of John Fries, on an indictment for treason; together with a brief report of the trials of several other persons, for treason and insurrection, in the counties of Bucks, Northampton and Montgomery, in the Circuit Court of the United States, begun at the city of Philadelphia, April 11, 1799; continued at Norristown, October 11, 1799;--and concluded at Philadelphia, April 11, 1800; before the Hon. Judges, Iredell, Peters, Washington and Chase. To which is added, a copious appendix, containing the evidences and arguments of the counsel on both sides on the motion for a new trial; the arguments on the motion for removing the case to the county where the crime was committed, and the arguments against holding the jurisdiction at Norristown. Taken in short hand by Thomas Carpenter. (Copy-right secured.). Philadelphia: Printed and sold by William W. Woodward, no. 17 Chesnut, near Front-Street, 1800. ESTC No. W29631. Grub Street ID 339907.

Printed for William W.

  • Buchan, William. Domestic medicine: or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines: with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practioners. By William Buchan, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. Adapted to the climate and diseases of America, by Isaac Cathrall. Philadelphia: Printed by Richard Folwell, for William W. Woodward, No. 17, Chestnut-Street, 1797. ESTC No. W19780. Grub Street ID 329415.