Publications of William Young

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 Young

  • Young, William. Current price of paper for sale by William Young, bookseller and stationer Philadelphia. [Philadelphia: Printed by William Young, 1798]. ESTC No. W10224. Grub Street ID 319333.

Sold by William Young

  • Smith, William. An exercise, performed at the public commencement, in the College of Philadelphia, July 17, 1790. Containing an ode, set to music, sacred to the memory of Dr. Franklin. This exercise consists of lines, partly original, and partly selected or altered from former similar compositions in this college, as they were hastily thrown together, for the occasion of the present commencement; it is hoped that they will be received with the usual indulgence of a candid public. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by William Young, bookseller, the corner of Second and Chesnut-Streets, M,DCC,XC. [1790]. ESTC No. W17502. Grub Street ID 327047.

Printed for William Young

  • Nevay, John. The nature, properties, blessings, and saving graces, of the covenant of grace, opened and applied, in LII sermons, on 2 Samuel xxiii. 5. By ... Mr. John Nevay, ... To which is added, two letters, written by the author to his parishoners ... Glasgow: printed for William Young, and sold by Robert Smith, 1748. ESTC No. T131304. Grub Street ID 180324.