Publications of Elizabeth Brooksby

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 Elizabeth Brooksby

  • The cracks garland: furnish'd with three excellent new songs. Song I. The weeping Harlot; or, The wanton misses lamentation of the loss of their cullies and bountyful benefactors, who dare not come as formerly, for fear of the private press. Song II. The female auction; or, A curious collection of town cracks, to be sold by inch of candle, at Peticoat-Castle, near the sign of the Furbelo Lady, in Dildo-street. III. The weeping virgin; or, The forsaken lover's mournful tragedy. London]: printed for E[lizabeth]. Brooksby, at the Golden-Ball in Pye-Corner, [ca. 1700. ESTC No. R175871. Grub Street ID 68613.
  • The true lover's joy: or, A dialogue between a seaman and his love. The maid implores the aid of Charon's boat, that to the gloomy shades her soul might float; with sighs and groans, much weary and opprest, at last he heard her moan, and gave her rest, from all past dangers, and from future harms, she safe arriv'd and anchor'd in his arms. To a new tune much in request. London]: Printed for E[lizabeth]. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in Pye-corner, [1700?. ESTC No. R228945. Grub Street ID 101562.
  • The Lady Isabella's tragedy; or, The step-mothers cruelty. Being a relation of a most lamentable and cruel murder, committed on the body of the Lady Isabella, the only daughter of a noble duke, occasioned by the means of a cruel step-mother and the master-cook, who were both adjudged to suffer death, for committing the said horrid act. To the tune of The ladies fall. London]: Printed for E. Brooksby at the Golden-Ball in Pye-Corner, [1700?. ESTC No. R179902. Grub Street ID 71125.
  • Cordial advice to all rash young men, who think to advance their decaying fortunes by navigation; shewing the many dangers and hardships that saylors [sic] indure [sic]. To the tune of, I'll no more to Greenland sail, &c. London: printed by W. O. [William Onley] and for E. Brooksby, [1701?]. ESTC No. T206060. Grub Street ID 235653.
  • Phillips, John. The English fortune-tellers: containing several necessary questions resolved by the ablest antient philosophers, and modern astrologers. Gathered from their writings and manuscripts, by J.P. student in astrology. London: printed for E. Brooksby, at the Golden Ball in Pye-Corner; B. Deacom, at the Angel in Gilt-spur-street; J Blare, at the Looking-Glass on London-Bridge near the Church; and A. Back, at the Black Boy, on the middle of London Bridge, 1703. ESTC No. T224756. Grub Street ID 246881.
  • The Lincolnshire garland: in four parts. . London]: Printed for Eliz. Brooksby, [1715?. ESTC No. T40998. Grub Street ID 269998.