Publications of E. S.

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. S.

  • Speed, John. Batt upon batt: A poem upon the parts, patience, and pains, of Bartholomew Kempster, clerk, poet, cutler, of Holy-Rood Parish in Southampton. By a Person of Quality. To which is annexed the vision, wherein is describ'd Batt's person and ingenuity: with an account of the ancient and present state and glory of Southampton. By the same Author. The seventh edition. Dedicated to the gentry of Hampshire, for their diversion: but more especially to the inhabitants of Southampton. London: Printed by E.S. for Mary Fifield in Southampton, 1733. ESTC No. T164793. Grub Street ID 203059.

Author

  • S., E.. A new academy: or, The accomplish'd secretary. Containing instructions to write epistles; with many curious examples of letters, and answers, suited to love, business, friendship, and other matters, in a most elegant stile. Directions for true pointing, or stopping, in writing superscriptions of letters sutable [sic] to persons of all qualities and degrees, inscriptions, subscriptions, &c. The art and mystery of making love, and proving successful in it. Quaint dialogues, in verse, and prose. Rules for gentiel and accomplish'd breeding, behaviour, &c. Select poems on sundry occasions; complemental expressions, serious and jocose, relating to either sex; acrosticks, enigma's [sic], odes, epigrams, satyrs, and other rare devices. To which are added many excellent new songs, as they have lately been sung, and are now greatly in request at court, balls, both theatres musical consorts of entertainments. Second edition. London: printed for Roger Clavill, and sold by T[homas]. Leigh and D[aniel]. Midwinter at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1699. ESTC No. R180873. Grub Street ID 71728.