Publications of W. Woodhouse

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. Woodhouse

  • The New entertaining Philadelphia jest-book, and chearful witty companion: being a choice collection of the most humorous and diverting jests, stories, anecdotes, bon-mots, repartees, new songs, poetical tales, &c. &c. To which is added, a curious variety of toasts, sentiments, & hob-nobs. [One line from G.A. Stevens]. Philadelphia: Printed by W. Woodhouse, Front, near Market-Street, M.DCC.XC. [1790]. ESTC No. W11433. Grub Street ID 320629.

Sold by W. Woodhouse

  • Trenck, Friedrich. The life of Baron Frederic Trenck; containing his adventures, his cruel and excessive sufferings, during ten years imprisonment, at the fortress of Magdeburg, by command of the late King of Prussia; also, anecdotes, historical, political and personal. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by W. Woodhouse, at the Bible no 6, South Front-Street, M.DCC.XCII. [1792]. ESTC No. W13608. Grub Street ID 322954.

Printed for W. Woodhouse

  • The Constitutions of the United States, according to the latest amendments: to which are annexed, the Declaration of Independence; and the Federal Constitution; with the amendments thereto. Philadelphia: Printed by E. Oswald, for W. Woodhouse, bookseller, no. 6, South Front-Street, M,DCC,XCVI. [1796]. ESTC No. W20085. Grub Street ID 329726.