Publications of Nathaniel Elkins

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 Nathaniel Elkins

  • Ramesey, William. Astrologia restaurata; or, Astrologie restored: being an introdvction to the general and chief part of the language of the stars. In four books. The first, proving the legality of astrogolie, ... The second, by a plain method teaching the names and characters of the planet and signs, as also the reasons thereof: ... The third, fully comprehending instructions and rules for electing any manner of work; ... The fourth, by a most easie introduction teacheth, by revolutions of the years of the world, eclipses, great conjunctions, comets and blazing-stars, ... With a table of the most material things therein contained. By VVilliam Ramesey, gent. Student in astrologie, physick, and the most heavenly and sublime sciences. Published by authority. London: printed for Nathaniel Elkins, at the Gun at the west-end of Pauls, and are to be sold by Edward Robinson stationer, at his shop in Ludlow, 1654. ESTC No. R187367. Grub Street ID 75658.