Publications of William Spotswood

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 Spotswood

  • Spotswood, William. Boston, 7th November, 1799. Proposals for publishing by subscription, (Spotswood, No. 22 Marlbro'-Street,) Memoirs and travels of Mauritius Augustus Count Benyowsky ... [Boston: Printed by William Spotswood, 1799]. ESTC No. W10226. Grub Street ID 319335.

Sold by William Spotswood

  • Hoyle, Edmond. Hoyle's games improved: being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist quadrille piquet back-gammon chess billiards and tennis. With the established rules of game. By James Beaufort, Esq. of Cavendish-Square. Boston: Printed and sold by William Spotswood, 1796. ESTC No. W11314. Grub Street ID 320503.

Printed for William Spotswood

  • Pindar, Peter. The poetical works of Peter Pindar, Esq. a distant relation to the poet of Thebes. To which are prefixed memoirs and anecdotes of the author. Philadelphia: Printed for William Spotswood, and Rice & Co, MDCCXC. [1790]. ESTC No. W25370. Grub Street ID 335343.