Publications of William Adderton

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 multiple roles in combination (which suggests a likelihood that the person is a trade publisher):

  1. "printed and sold by x"; "printed for and sold by x"; or "printed by and for x" and so on.

Printers (owners of the type and printing presses, and possibly owners of the copyright) may be identified by the words printed by, but printed by does not universally designate a person who is a printer by trade. Booksellers may be identified by the words sold by, but sold by encompasses a number of roles. Booksellers or individuals who owned the copyright are generally identified by the words printed for, but nothing should be concluded in this regard without further evidence, especially since "printed for" could signify that the named person was a distributor rather than a copyright holder. Trade publishers, who distributed books and pamphlets but did not own the copyright or employ a printer—and were not printers themselves—might be identified by the words printed and sold by. Furthermore, works from this period often display false imprints, whether to evade copyright restrictions, to conceal the name of the copyright holders, or to dupe unwitting customers. Ultimately, one must proceed with caution in using the following lists: designations in the imprints may not reliably reflect the actual trades or roles of the people named, and the formulas used in imprints do not consistently mean the same thing.

David Foxon discussed the "meaning of the imprint" in his Lyell Lecture delivered at Oxford in March 1976, with particular attention to "publishers" in the eighteenth-century context:

The fullest form of an imprint is one which names three people, or groups of people:
     London: printed by X (the printer), for Y (the bookseller who owned the copyright), and sold by Z.
In the eighteenth century the printer's name is rarely given, at least in works printed in London, and the form is more commonly:
     London: printed for Y, and sold by Z.
Very often in this period, and particularly for pamphlets, it is further abbreviated to:
     London: printed and sold by Z.
It is this last form which is my present concern. Z is usually what the eighteenth century called 'a publisher', or one who distributes books and pamphlets without having any other responsibility—he does not own the copyright or employ a printer, or even know the author.

D. F. McKenzie coined the term "trade publisher" for these publishers in his Sandars Lectures, also in 1976, on the grounds that their principal role was to publish on behalf of other members of the book trade (Treadwell 100).

Michael Treadwell cautions that "In this period the imprint 'London: Printed and sold by A.B.' normally means 'Printed at London, and sold by A.B.' and must not be taken to mean that A.B. is a printer in the absence of other evidence." Further, "The imprint 'published by' occurs only rarely in Wing and is almost always associated with the name of a trade publisher" (104). While there are exceptions to the rule, it is "certain," he explains, "that anyone who made a speciality of distributing works for others will show a far higher proportion than normal of imprints in one of the 'sold by' forms" (116), which appear in the imprint as "sold by," "printed and sold by," or "published by" (104). Treadwell gives Walter Kettilby as an example of "a fairly typical copyright-owning bookseller" (106)—his role is almost always designated by the phrase "printed for" on imprints.

A final caution: publisher is a word that should be used with some deliberation. Samuel Johnson defines it simply as "One who puts out a book into the world," but "published by" rarely appears on the imprint until later in the eighteenth century, and then primarily associated with newspapers and pamphlets. Treadwell observes that John Dunton names only five publishers among the 200 binders and booksellers in his autobiographical Life and Errors (1705) wherein he undertakes "to draw the Character of the most Eminent [Stationers] in the Three Kingdoms" (100). Treadwell also remarks, however, that "in law, anyone who offered a work for sale 'published' it. In this sense every work had one or more 'publishers', and every bookseller, mercury, and hawker was a 'publisher'" (114).

See:

  • Terry Belanger, "From Bookseller to Publisher: Changes in the London Book Trade, 1750–1850," in Book Selling and Book Buying. Aspects of the Nineteenth-Century British and North American Book Trade, ed. Richard G. Landon (Chicago: American Library Association, 1978).
  • Bricker, Andrew Benjamin. "Who was 'A. Moore'? The Attribution of Eighteenth-Century Publications with False and Misleading Imprints," in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 110.2 (2016).
  • John Dunton, The Life and Errors of John Dunton (London: Printed for S. Malthus, 1705).
  • John Feather, "The Commerce of Letters: The Study of the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade," Eighteenth-Century Studies 17 (1984).
  • David Foxon, Pope and the Early Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, ed. James McLaverty (Oxford University Press, 1991).
  • Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language, (printed for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755).
  • D.F. McKenzie, The London Book Trade in the Later Seventeenth Century (Sandars lectures in bibliography, 1977).
  • Michael Treadwell, "London Trade Publishers 1675–1750," The Library sixth series, vol. 4, no. 2 (1982).

Sold by William Adderton

  • Saunders, Richard. Plenary possession makes a lawfull power: or Subjection to powers that are in being proved to be lawfull and necessary, in a sermon preached before the judges in Exeter March 23. 1650. By Richard Saunders, preacher of the Gospel at Kentisbeer in Devon. London: printed for William Adderton, and are to be sold at his shop at the three Golden Falcons in Duck-lane, 1651. ESTC No. R203482. Grub Street ID 80572.
  • Doolittle, Thomas. A treatise concerning the Lords Supper: with three dialogues for the more full information of the weak, in the nature and use of this Sacrament. By Tho. Doolitell. London: printed by R.I. for Joshua Johnson, and are to be sold by William Adderton, at the Three Golden Falchons in Duck-Lane, 1667. ESTC No. R8495. Grub Street ID 128662.
  • Doolittle, Thomas. A treatise concerning the Lords Supper: with three dialogues for the more full information of the weak, in the nature and use of this sacrament. By Tho. Doolitell. London: printed by R.W. and are to be sold by William Adderton, at the Three Golden Falchons in Duck-lane, 1668. ESTC No. R202429. Grub Street ID 79668.
  • P., R.. The sole and soveraign way of England's being saved, humbly proposed by R.P. minister of the Gospel. London: printed by W. G[odbid]. and are to be sold by J. Hancock, at the three Bibles in Popes-head Alley, N. Ponder at the Peacock in Chancer-lane, and W. Adderton, at the three Falcons in Duck-lane, 1671. ESTC No. R27158. Grub Street ID 110355.

Printed for William Adderton

  • Beaton, John. Synonyma: sive, Copia vocum Hebraicarum in ordinem alphabeticum reducta. Deinde, Verba quædam Anglicana, Latina, Græcaque ab Hebræo fonte deducta, in calce adjecta. Londini: excudebat J.Y. impensis Gulielmi Adderton, apud quem voeneunt, ad insigne trium deauratorum Falconum, in vico vulgò vocato, Duck-lane, 1647. ESTC No. R17023. Grub Street ID 64965.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by William Adderton

  • Rogers, Francis. A visitation sermon, preached at the Lord Archbishops trienniall and ordinary visitation, in St. Margarets in Canterbury, vpon Aprill the fift, 1630. By Francis Rogers, Doctor in Diuinity, and minister of that parish. London: Printed by Iohn Norton, for William Adderton, and are to bee sold at his shop in Bethlem without Bishops-gate, 1633. ESTC No. S116094. Grub Street ID 135785.
  • Rogers, Francis. A sermon preached on September the 20. 1632. in the cathedrall church of Christ at Canterbury, at the funerall of William Proud, a lieutenant collonell, slaine at the last late siege of Mastricke. By Francis Rogers, Doctor in Diuinity. London: Printed by Iohn Norton, for William Adderton, and are to bee sold at his shop in Bethlem without Bishops-gate, 1633. ESTC No. S116095. Grub Street ID 135786.
  • Eaton, John. The discovery of the most dangerous dead faith. By John Eaton Master of Arts, and sometime student in Trinity Colledge in Oxford, and fifteene yeares minister and preacher at Wickham-Market in Suffolk. London: printed by R[ichard]. Bishop for William Adderton, and are to be sold at his shop in Duck-Lane, 1641. ESTC No. R174841. Grub Street ID 67905.
  • Homes, Nathanael. The nevv vvorld, or The nevv reformed church. Discovered out of the second epistle of Peter the third chap. verse 13. Neverthelesse we according to his promise looke for new heavens, and a new Earth, wherein dwelleth righteousnesse. First opened briefly, and some points pourtrayed and propounded before some of the nobilitie and others in the country. Afterwards more fully delineated, and prosecuted before the Honorable House of Parliament; May 30. an. Dom. 1641. And upon the request of some of them, desiring coppies, was limbed up for the presse, according to the maine parts then, and there delivered. By Nath. Homes Dr. in D. London: printed by T[homas]. P[aine]. and M[atthew]. S[immons]. for William Adderton, and are to be sold at his shop in Duck-lane, 1641. ESTC No. R8246. Grub Street ID 128442.
  • Eaton, John. The discovery of the most dangerous dead faith. By John Eaton, Mr of Arts, and sometime student in Trinity Colledg in Oxford, and 15. yeers Minister and Preacher at Wickham-Market in Suffolk. London: printed by R. Bishop for William Adderton, and are to be sold at his shop in Duck-lane, 1642. ESTC No. R23218. Grub Street ID 104034.
  • Eaton, John. The discovery of the most dangerous dead faith. By John Eaton, Mr of Arts, and sometime student in Trinity Colledg in Oxford, and 15. yeers minister and preacher at Wickham-Market in Suffolk. London: printed by R[ichard]. Bishop for William Adderton, and are to be sold at his shop in Duck-lane, 1642. ESTC No. R171899. Grub Street ID 65965.
  • Viger, François. De præcipuis Græcæ dictionis idiotismis. Auctore Francisco Vigero Rotomagensi. Undecima editio prioribus emaculatior, in quâ nonnulla quæ deerant supplentur, multa quæ deerant supplentur, multa quæ luxata erant in proprium locum restituuntur, plurima denique vitios exarat corriguntur. Accessit prætereà huic editioni observationum non-inutilium qualecunque auctarium; necnon vocum Græcarum index locupletissimus, de novo compositus. Londini: excudebat J. Dawsonus impensis Guilielmi Addertoni, apud quem væneunt ad insigne trium deauratorum Falconum in vico vulgò vocato Duck-lane, 1647. ESTC No. R220750. Grub Street ID 95039.
  • Viger, François. De præcipuis Græcæ dictionis idiotismis. Auctore Francisco Vigero Societate Jesu Rotomagensi. Decima editio prioribus nitidior, in qua nonnulla quæ deerant supplentur, multa quæ deerant supplentur, multa quæ luxata erant in proprium locum restituuntur, plurima denique vitios exarata corriguntur. Londini: excudebat J[ohn]. D[awson]. impensis Guilielmi Adderton, apud quem bæneunt Adderton, apud quem væneunt as insigne trium deauratorum Falconum in vico vulgô vocato Duck-Lane, 1647. ESTC No. R22232. Grub Street ID 96340.
  • Viger, François. De præcipuis Græcæ dictionis idiotismis. Auctore Francisco Vigero Societate Jesu Rotomagensi. Decima editio prioribus nitidior, in qua nonnulla quæ deerant supplentur, multa quæ luxata erant in proprium locum restituuntur, plurima denique vitios exarata corriguntur. Londini: excudebat J[ohn]. D[awson]. impensis Guilielmi Adderton, quem væneunt ad insigne trium deauratorum Falconum in vico vulgô vocato Duck-Lane, 1647. ESTC No. R233021. Grub Street ID 104648.
  • Ames, William. The saints security, against seducing spirits, or, The anointing from the Holy one the best teaching. Delivered in a sermon at Pauls before the Lord Major, aldermen, and commonalty of the city of London, upon the fifth of November, 1651. By William Ames. M.A. London: printed by M. Simmons, for William Adderton, and are to be sold at his shop at the three Golden Falcons in Duck-lane, 1652 [i.e. 1651]. ESTC No. R11. Grub Street ID 59325.
  • A balm to heal religions wounds, applied in a serious advice to sober-minded Christians that love the truth, and are well-wishers to reformation. In answer to the Pulpit guard routed, lately set forth by one Thomas Collier. In this small treatise you shall finde divers corrupt principles of this Collier plainly confuted. His ignorance fully laid open. Many scriptures cleard from his corrupt glosses. Severall questions handled touching; the ministry. Infant baptism. Pardon of sin. Extraordinary revelations. Humane learning. The outward call of the ministers of England. By Richard Saunders, minister of the gospel for the church of Christ in Kentishbeer. London: printed by M. Simmons, for William Adderton, and are to be sold at his shop at the three Golden Falcons in Duck lane, 1652. ESTC No. R225048. Grub Street ID 98402.
  • A balm to heal religions wounds applied in a serious advice to sober-minded Christians that love the truth, and are well-wishers to reformation : in answer to The pulpit guard routed, lately set forth by one Thomas Collier ... by Richard Saunders ... London: Printed by M. Simmons for William Adderton, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1652. ESTC No. R42466. Grub Street ID 123786.
  • A balme to heale religions wounds, applyed in a serious advice to sober minded Christians that love the truth, and are well-wishers to reformation. In answer to the Pulpit guard routed, lately set forth by one Thomas Collier. In this small treatise you shall finde divers corrupt principles of this Collier plainly confuted. His ignorance fully laid open. Many scriptures cleared from his corrupt glosses. Severall questions handled touching; the ministry. Infant baptisme. Pardon of sin. Extraordinary revelations. Human learning. The outward call of the ministers of England. By Richard Saunders, minister of the gospel for the church of Christ in Kentishbeer. London: printed by M. Simmons for William Adderton, and are to be sold at his shop at the three Golden Falcons in Duck-lane, 1655. ESTC No. R222366. Grub Street ID 96380.