Publications of W. Jones

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."

Sold by W. Jones

  • Goldsmith, Oliver. The Roman history, from the foundation of the city of Rome, to the destruction of the western empire. By Dr. Goldsmith. In two volumes. ... Dublin: printed and sold by W. Jones, No. 75, Thomas-street, [1795?]. ESTC No. N50101. Grub Street ID 34216.

Printed for W. Jones

  • The bath miscellany. For the year 1740. Wrote by the gentlemen and ladies at that place. Containing all the lampoons, satyrs, panegyrics, &c. for that year. Bath: printed for W. Jones, and sold by W. Lobb there; and by Jacob Robinson, Bookseller, in Ludgate-Street; and the pamphlet shops of London and Westminster, [1741]. ESTC No. N15475. Grub Street ID 5197.