Publications of Bavil Webster

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 Bavil Webster

  • Watts, Isaac. Hymns and spiritual songs: in three books. I. Collected from the Scriptures. II. Compos'd on divine subjects. III. Prepar'd for the Lord's Supper. By I. Watts, D.D. [Five lines of quotations]. Hartford: Printed by Bavil Webster, M,DC,CLXXXI. [1781]. ESTC No. W12815. Grub Street ID 322110.

Sold by Bavil Webster

  • Mitchell, Stephen Mix. A narrative of the life of William Beadle, of Wethersfield, in the state of Connecticut. Containing I. The particulars of the "horrid massacre" of himself and family. II. Extracts from the Rev. Mr. Marsh's sermon at the funeral of his wife and children. Hartford: Printed and sold by Bavil Webster, 1783. ESTC No. W13756. Grub Street ID 323110.