Publications of W. McAlpine

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. McAlpine

  • The Psalms of David imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian state and worship. By I. Watts, D.D. Boston: Printed by W. McAlpine, for J. Perkins, near the market, Union-Street, 1766. ESTC No. W39000. Grub Street ID 349785.

Printed for W. McAlpine

  • Erskine, Ralph. The great ruin, and the great relief: or, Help from heaven to self-destroyers on earth. A sermon upon Hosea XIII. 9. O Israel! Thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thy help. Preached at Braid-Craigs, Wednesday, March 22. 1738. A day appointed for solemn fasting and humiliation, by the Associate Presbytery, at the earnest desire of the societies for prayer, in and about Edinburgh; and on the Sabbath after at Linton. By the Reverend Mr. Ralph Erskine, Minister of the Gospel at Dunfermline. Boston: Printed by D. and J. Kneeland, opposite to the prison in Queen-Street, for W. McAlpine, over against the Old South Meeting-House, in Marlborough-Street, 1761. ESTC No. W12525. Grub Street ID 321802.