Publications of John Whiston

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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 John Whiston

  • Fisher, John. The guilt and danger of perjury. A sermon preached at the assizes held at Northampton BY The Right Hon. Lord Chief Justice Willes, And The Hon. Mr. Justice Clive, on Thursday, August 2, 1753. By John Fisher, M. A. Vicar of St. John in Peterborough, and Chaplain to the Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Peterborough. Published at the Request of the High Sheriff, and Gentlemen of the Grand Jury. London: printed by J. Whiston and B. White, in Fleetstreet, MDCCLIII. [1753]. ESTC No. T10333. Grub Street ID 156963.

Printed for John Whiston

  • Rutty, William. A treatise of the urinary passages, &c. Containing their description, power, and uses; together with the principal distempers that affect them; in particular the stone of the kidneys and bladder, as delivered at the Gulstonian lecture in the Theatre of the Royal College of Physicians, London. By William Rutty, M. D. Fellow of the said College, of the Royal Society, and Reader of Anatomy at Surgeon's-Hall. The second edition corrected. Illustrated with copper-plates. London: printed for J. Whiston, at Mr. Boyle's-Head, and J. Woodyer, at Caesar's-Head, both in Fleetstreet, MDCCL. [1750]. ESTC No. T122202. Grub Street ID 172927.
  • Barbot, John. The tryal of John Barbot, attorney at law, for the murder of Mathew Mills, Esq; At a court of oyer and terminer and general goal-delivery, held at the town of Basseterre, in and for the island of St. Christopher, on Friday the 5th day of January, 1753, before The Honourable William Mathew Burt, Esquire, President of His Majesty's Council of the said Island, and others, His Majesty's Justices of Goal-Delivery. To which is added, the prisoner's narrative of the cause of the difference between Mr. Mills and himself, and the several Steps that led from thence, to the Commission of the Fact for which he suffered. Published by Permission of the Judges. London: printed for John Whiston and Benjamin White, in Fleet Street, MDCCLIII. [1753]. ESTC No. N13859. Grub Street ID 3756.
  • Medulla medicinae universae: or, a new compendious dispensatory: compiled ... for the use of the military hospital abroad, ... By the King's physicians and surgeons, the Surgeon-General, and Apothecary-General to the Army. To which is added, an English translation, ... By John Theobald, M.D. The sixth edition: with a large additional appendix, ... London: printed for J. Whiston and B. White, and R. Baldwin, 1761. ESTC No. N10836. Grub Street ID 833.
  • Medulla medicinae universae: or, a new compendious dispensatory: compiled ... for the use of the military hospital abroad. By the King's physicians and surgeons, the Surgeon-General, and Apothecary-General to the Army. To which is added, an English translation, ... By John Theobald, M.D. The seventh edition: with a large additional appendix, ... London: printed for J. Whiston, J. Rivington, B. White, R. Horsfield, T. Longman, [and 3 others in London], 1771. ESTC No. N10839. Grub Street ID 835.
  • The speech of the Speaker of the House of Commons, on Wednesday, May 7, 1777: upon presenting to His Majesty, the bill for better support of His Majesty's household,. London: printed for John Whiston; Charles Bathurst, Lockyer Davis; Benjamin White; and William Bowyer and John Nichols, 1777. ESTC No. T136031. Grub Street ID 184349.