Publications of E.C. and

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 E.C. and

  • The testament of the tvvelve patriarchs, the sons of Jacob. Translated out of Greek into Latin by Rob. Grosthead, sometime bishop of Lincoln: and out of his copy into French and Dutch by others, and now Englished. To the credit whereof, an ancient Greek copy written in parchment is kept in the university library of Cambridge. London: Printed by E.C. and A.C. for the Company of Stationers, 1670. ESTC No. R201060. Grub Street ID 78522.

Printed for E.C. and

  • Coles, Elisha. A practical discourse of God's sovereignty: with other material points deriving thence. The second impression, with additions.. London: printed by Ben. Griffin for E.C. and are to be sold by John Sell over against the East-India House in Leaden-Hall Street, 1676. ESTC No. R174023. Grub Street ID 67334.