Publications of Eben Tracey

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 for Eben Tracey

  • Cocker, Edward. Cocker's Arithmetick: Being a plain and familiar method, suitable to the meanest capacity for the full understanding of that incomparable art, as it is now taught by the ablest school-masters in city and country. Composed by Edward Cocker, late practitioner in the arts of writing, arithmetick, and engraving. Being that so long since promise'd to the world. Perused [sic] and published by John Hawkins writing-master near St. Georges Church in Southwark, by the authors correct copy, and commended to the world by many eminent mathematicians and writing-masters in and near London. The one and twentieth edition carefully corrected, with additions. Licensed Sept. 3. 1677. Roger L'estrange. London: Printed by W. Richardson, for Eben Tracey, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, 1701. ESTC No. N44103. Grub Street ID 29631.