Publications of Edward Thomas

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 Edward Thomas

  • Thomas, William. Christian and conjugal counsell: or, Christian counsell, applyed unto the maried estate. By VVill. Thomas, minister of the Gospel, and Rector of the church of Ubley. London: printed for Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain, 1661. ESTC No. R10060. Grub Street ID 58456.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by Edward Thomas

  • Prynne, William. A brief necessary vindication of the old and new secluded Members, from the false malicious calumnies; and of the fundamental rights, liberties, privileges, government, interest of the freemen, Parliaments, people of England, from the late avowed subversions 1. Of John Rogers, in his un-christian concertation with Mr. Prynne, and others. 2. Of M: Nedham, in his Interest will not lie. Wherein the true Good Old Cause is asserted, the false routed; the old secluded Members cleared from all pretended breach of trust; the old Parliament proved to be totally dissolved by the Kings death; the sitting juncto to be no Parliament and speedily to be dissolved by the Army-Officers; the oathes of supremacy, allegiance, fealty to the King, his heirs and successors, to be still binding, continuing: The new commonwealth to be the Iesuites project; Ch. Stewart not sworn t popery, as Nedham slanders him; the restitution of our hereditary King and kingly government, not an vtopian republicke, evidenced b. London: printed, and are to be sold by Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain, 1659. ESTC No. R1799. Grub Street ID 71122.

Author

  • Thomas, Edward. The estate of man by nature and grace. Together with his duty to God, his neighbor, and himself; with meditations to the several heads annext. By Edward Thomas, minister of the Gospel at Denham in Suffolk. London: printed for Ralph Smith, at the sign of the Bible by the Exchange in Cornhil, 1674. ESTC No. R220872. Grub Street ID 95114.