Publications of W. Durell

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 W. Durell

  • Ely, John. The child's instructor: consisting of easy lessons for children; on subjects which are familiar to them, in language adapted to their capacities. By a teacher of little children in Philadelphia. Volume I. Mount-Pleasant [N.Y.]: Printed by W. Durell, for R. Magell, J. Harrisson, c. Davis, N. Judah, E. Duyckinck and Co., T. Allen, B. Gomez, P. Mesier and Buel and Knox, M,DCC,LCVII. [1797] (Who has the privilege of copy right for the states of New-York and New-Jersey]. ESTC No. W10712. Grub Street ID 319853.

Sold by W. Durell

  • The history of a schoolboy. With other pieces. New-York: Printed and sold by W. Durell, at his book-store and printing-office, no. 19, Queen-Street, M,DCC,XCII. [1792]. ESTC No. W11056. Grub Street ID 320221.