Publications of Edward Husbands

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 by Edward Husbands

  • England and Wales. Parliament.. Wednesday May 9. 1660. Resolved upon the question by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, (nemine contradicente.) That the Kings Majestie be desired to make his speedy return to his parliament, and to the exercise of the kingly office. Ordered that this vote be forthwith printed and published. W. Jessop Clerk of the Commons House of Parliament. London: printed by Edward Husbands, and Thomas Newcomb, printers to the honorable House of Commons, [1660]. ESTC No. R175148. Grub Street ID 68125.

Printed for Edward Husbands

  • A declaration and resolution of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, in answer to the Scots declaration. Wherein is set forth the true zeal and affection betwixt both kingdoms, for the reformation of church-government. Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, that this declaration be forthwith printed and published: Hen. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. London: printed for Edward Husbands and John Franck, and are to be sold at their shops, in the Middle Temple, and next door to the Kings head in Fleet-street, September 23. 1642. ESTC No. R11447. Grub Street ID 59733.