Publications of John Walthoe Senior

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).

Printed for John Walthoe Senior

  • A view of the penal laws concerning trade and trafick, alphabetically disposed under proper heads. Wherein, for that purpose are collected all the statutes, to the end of the last sessions 1697. Viz. relating to brewers, brokers, boatmen, carriers, curriers, coachmen, coalmongers, cordwainers, clothiers, &c. diillers [sic], fishers, fowlers, glass-makers, gold-smiths, silver-smith, leather sellers, tanners, &c. maulsters, minters, merchants and marriners, pipe-makers, prisoners and debtors, pedlars and hawkers, paper and parchment-makers, &c. Salt makers and salters, silkthrowsters, stock-jobbers, &c. Vintners and wine-coopers, wool-mongers and exporters of wooll, with many others. Also some necessary additions of penalties and forfeitures, collected and published by way of monition, as well to offenders as informers. To which is added a table of such offences, &c. as are punishable in the Crown-Office. Useful for all merchants, tradesmen, artificers, &c. London: printed by the assigns of Rich. and Edw. Atkins Esq; for John. Walthoe, at his shop in the Middle Temple Cloysters, 1697. ESTC No. R214787. Grub Street ID 89952.
  • The law of executors and administrators. Being a common law treatise; shewing, directions for the management of their office and duty, ... Of probate of wills, and of codicils. ... Together with the learning of administrators durante minori ætate; ... London: printed by the assigns of R. and Edw. Atkins Esquires. For J. Walthoe, and M. Wotton, 1702. ESTC No. N10429. Grub Street ID 439.
  • The modern conveyancer: or conveyancing improved. Being a choice collection of presidents [sic] on most occasions: drawn after the manner of conveyancing now in use. BY The Greatest Hands of the Present Age; Of which some are still Living. Consisting of Settlements of Estates upon Marriages, Bargains and Sales, Ecclesiastical Instruments, Mortgages, Leases, &c. With an Introduction concerning Conveyancing in General. Vol. I. London: printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esqs; for John Walthoe, at his Shop in Vine-Court in the Middle-Temple, adjoining to the Cloisters, 1706. ESTC No. N10904. Grub Street ID 892.
  • Laws concerning trade, and tradesmen. In two parts. The first, treats of the doctrine of by-laws, made by corporations and Companies concerning Trade, &c. Wherein are collected, from the Books of Reports, all the Cases which have been adjudged at Common-Law relating to this Subject. The second part, is a collection of the statute-law that concerns merchants, tradesmen, and artificers. Alphabetically disposed under proper heads: with several tables directing to all the Particulars thereof. [London]: In the Savoy: printed by J. Nutt, assignee of Edw. Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe in the Middle-Temple Cloysters,; and are to be sold at his shop in Stafford, 1712. ESTC No. N10417. Grub Street ID 427.
  • Carter, Samuel, of the Inner-Temple, Esq.. Legal provisions for the poor: or, a treatise of the common and statute laws concerning the poor, either as to relief, settlement, or punishment. Being a methodical guide for justices of peace, church-wardens, and overseers. ... By S. C. ... [London]: In the Savoy: printed by John Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer Esq; for John Walthoe; and at his shop in Stafford, 1713. ESTC No. N10386. Grub Street ID 395.
  • Bohun, William. Cursus cancellariæ: or, the course of proceedings in the High Court of Chancery. ... With variety of useful precedents throughout. And a compleat table to the whole. Published by William Bohun ... [London]: In the Savoy: printed by J. Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer Esq; for John Walthoe: and at his shop in Stafford, 1715. ESTC No. N26864. Grub Street ID 16224.
  • Carter, Samuel, of the Inner-Temple, Esq.. Legal provisions for the poor: or, a treatise of the common and statute laws concerning the poor, either as to relief, settlement, or punishment. Being a methodical guide for justices of peace, church-wardens, and overseers. Wherein are explain'd, All the Statutes relating to that Subject; with the Ancient and Modern Law-Cases and Resolutions of the Judges: And also many Precedents proper for such a Treatise. By S. C. of the Inner-Temple, Esq;. [London]: In the Savoy: printed by John Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer Esq; for John Walthoe in the Temple-Cloysters; and at his shop in Stafford, 1715. ESTC No. N10387. Grub Street ID 396.
  • A catalogue of the common and statute law-books of this realm, with some others relating thereunto, to Michaelmas-Term, 1715. Alphabetically digested under proper titles. With an account of the best editions, and Common Prices they are now Sold at. London: printed for J. Walthoe in the Middle-Temple-Cloysters, and J. Walthoe, Junr. at the Golden Ball against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill, 1716. ESTC No. N14869. Grub Street ID 4628.
  • Hale, Matthew. The analysis of the law: being a scheme, or abstract, of the several titles and partitions of the law of England, ... By Sir Matthew Hale, ... London: printed for John Walthoe, and J. Walthoe Junr., 1716. ESTC No. N14895. Grub Street ID 4646.
  • The third part of reports of cases, taken and adjudged in the court of Chancery, in the reigns of King Charles II. King William, and Queen Anne. ... [London]: In the Savoy: printed by J. Nutt, Assignee of Edward Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe, and J. Walthoe Jun., 1716. ESTC No. T82592. Grub Street ID 303167.
  • Hale, Matthew. The history of the common law of England. Divided into twelve chapters. By Sir Matthew Hale, Kt. late Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench. London: printed for John Walthoe in the Middle-Temple-Cloysters, and John Walthoe Junr. against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1716. ESTC No. N8429. Grub Street ID 53336.
  • A summary of the penal laws relating to nonjurors, papists, popish recusants, and nonconformists. And of the late statutes concerning the succession, riots, and imprisonment of suspected persons. Collected and put into such a Method, that the Reader may at one View satisfie his Enquiry. The Offences and Penalties being ranged opposite to each other. To which are added, several adjudged cases, and Notes upon the most material Points: Wherein are contained, all the Oaths, Submissions, Declarations, Confessions of Faith and Affirmations, Required by the Government, since the first Year of Queen Elizabeth, to this present Year 1716. The second edition. To which is now added, the two late acts; the one, for appointing commissioners to Enquire of the Estates of certain Traytors, &c. The other, to oblige papists to register their names and real estates. [London]: In the Savoy: printed by Eliz. Nutt, (executrix of J. N. assignee of Edward Sayer, Esq;) for John Walthoe, in the Middle-Temple Cloysters, and John Walthoe jun. against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhil, MDCCXVI. [1716]. ESTC No. N24894. Grub Street ID 14239.
  • Hale, Matthew. A short treatise touching sheriffs accompts. Written by Sir Matthew Hale, Kt. Sometime Lord Chief Justice of the King's-Bench. London: printed for J. Walthoe in the Middle-Temple-Cloysters, and J. Walthoe junr. at the Golden Ball against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1716. ESTC No. T118387. Grub Street ID 169936.
  • Blackerby, S. Cases in law: wherein justices of peace have a jurisdiction, as well by their commission, as by Act of Parliament, ... from Edward the Third's time to this day: as they are reported in the year-books, and all the other reports down to this time. With the addition of some modern cases, ... Being the second part of The justice of peace's companion. By Samuel Blackerby, ... [London]: In the Savot [sic], printed by Eliz. Nutt, (executrix of J. Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer, Esq;) for J. Walthoe; and J. Walthoe jun, 1717. ESTC No. T66084. Grub Street ID 290890.
  • Reports of cases adjudg'd in the Court of King's Bench; with some special cases in the courts of Chancery, Common Pleas and Exchequer, from the first year of K. William and Q. Mary, to the tenth year of Queen Anne. By William Salkeld, ... [London]: In the Savoy: printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling, (assignees of Edward Sayer Esq;) for J. Walthoe; and J. Walthoe, jun., 1717-18. ESTC No. T97358. Grub Street ID 316783.
  • Nelson, William. The office and authority of a Justice of Peace: collected out of all the books, whether of common or statute law, hitherto written on that subject. Shewing also the Duty of Constables, Commissioners of Sewers, Coroners, Overseers of the Poor, Surveyors of the Highways, Churchwardens, and other Parish-Officers: Digested under alphabetical titles. To which are added, Precedents of indictments and Warrants, Never before Printed. Very useful for Justices of the Peace, Coroners; Sheriffs, Clerks of the Assizes, and of the Peace, and all others concern'd in such Matters. The seventh edition, corrected, amended, and continued down to this present yea 1721. By W. Nelson, of the Middle-Temple, Esq;. [London]: In the Savoy: printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edw. Sayer Esq;) for D. Browne at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar, J. Walthoe in the Middle Temple-Cloysters, and B. Tooke at the Middle-Temple Gate in Fleet-Street, MDCCXXI. [1721]. ESTC No. N12518. Grub Street ID 2517.
  • Haywood, Eliza. The unequal conflict; or, nature triumphant: a novel. By Mrs. Eliza Haywood. London: printed for J. Walthoe, over-against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill, and J. Crokatt, near the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, M.DCC.XXV. [1725]. ESTC No. T75395. Grub Street ID 298121.
  • Wharton, Henry. Fourteen sermons preach’d in Lambeth Chapel before the most Reverend Father in God Dr. William Sancroft, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. In the years MDCLXXXVIII. MDCLXXXIX. By the learned Henry Wharton, M.A. Chaplain to his Grace. In two volumes. ... With an account of the author’s life. London: printed for J. Waltho [sic], J. and J. Knapton, D. Midwinter, A. Betsworth, R. Robinson, J. Osborn and T. Longman, B. Motte and A. Ward, 1728. ESTC No. N18693. Grub Street ID 8162.
  • Webster, William. The trader's sure guide. Shewing the value of any quantity of goods, ... Intended chiefly for the ready reducing ... Portugal pieces of gold in to pounds, ... To which are added, tables of simple interest ... Together with a table of commission ... Exactly calculated, an carefully examined, by W. Webster, ... London: printed for J. Walthoe: F. Clay and D. Browne; Ch. King and J. Stagg; J. Leake, at Bath; Mrs. Lewis, at Bristol, [1730?]. ESTC No. T216025. Grub Street ID 241834.
  • A collection of epigrams. Vol. II. London: printed for J. Walthof [sic]; and sold by J. Osborn, 1737. ESTC No. T170823. Grub Street ID 208495.
  • Nelson, William. The law of evidence: wherein all the cases that have yet been printed in any of our law books or trials, and that in any wise relate to points of evidence, are collected ... With necessary tables to the whole. [London]: In the Savoy: printed by Henry Lintot (assignee of Edw. Sayer, Esq;) for J. Walthoe; J. Shuckburgh; J. Worrall, and T. Waller, 1744. ESTC No. N10431. Grub Street ID 442.