Publications of Edw. Brewster

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 Edw. Brewster

  • Alleine, Joseph. A most familiar explanation of the Assemblies shorter catechism. Wherein their larger answers are broken into lesser parcels, thereby to let in the light by degrees, into the minds of the learners. To which is added, in the close, a most brief help for the necessary, but much neglected duty of self-examination, to be daily perused. And to this is subjoin'd a letter of Christian counsel to a destitute flock. The last edition corrected and much amended. By Jos. Allaine, late preacher of the gospel at Taunton in Somersetshire, a lover of truth and peace. London: printed for Edw. Brewster at the Crane in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1690. ESTC No. R203620. Grub Street ID 80716.