Publications of B. 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 B. Webster

  • Edwards, John. The conversion of a Mehometan to the Christian religion. Described in a letter from Gaifer, in England, to Aly-Ben-Hayton, his friend in Turkey. [Hartford]: London printed: Hartford, re-printed by B. Webster, [between 1781 and 1784]. ESTC No. W19773. Grub Street ID 329407.

Sold by B. Webster

  • The United States almanack, for the year of our Lord Christ, 1784; ... Calculated for the meridian of Hartford, in the state of Connecticut, lat. 41 deg. 56 min. north. 72 deg. 50 min. west, and will serve for any of the adjacent states without any essential difference. ... By Andrew Beers. [Four lines of verse]. Hartford: Printed and sold by B. Webster, [1783]. ESTC No. W25083. Grub Street ID 335037.