Publications of E. Matthews

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."

Sold by E. Matthews

  • Harrison, Thomas. A funeral sermon occasion'd by the death of Mrs. Hannah Hurst. Preach'd in Little Wildstreet, March 13, 1719/20. To which is added, A Brief Narrative of the Dealings of God with her. By Thomas Harrison. London: printed, and sold by J. Clark at the Bible and Crown near the Poultrey; E. Matthews at the Bible in Pater-Noster-Row; and T. Saunders in Little Britain, M.DCC.XX. [1720]. ESTC No. T1410. Grub Street ID 188619.

Printed for E. Matthews

  • Wright, S. Seasonable advice, not to forsake the publick assemblies for religious worship. In a sermon preach'd at Black-Fryars, to a society of young men, January 1, 1714. By S. Wright. London: printed for E. Matthews, at the Bible in Paternoster-Row; and John Clark, at the Bible and Crown in the Old Change, near St. Paul's, MDCCXIV. [1714]. ESTC No. N21536. Grub Street ID 10896.