Publications of E.B. 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 for E.B. and

  • Bradshaw, Ellis. An husbandmans harrow to pull down the ridges of the presbyteriall government and to smooth, a little, the Independent. That they and others may walk together upon plain Scripture grounds, without stumbling on the ridgedess of either, or both. Containing divers new and unanswerable arguments, properly deduced from sacred Scriptures to this purpose, that have never yet been proposed by any on either partee, which induceth the husbandman to make thus bold whether welcome or no. And having prooved also the said Scripturall arguments, that like teeth of steel, they will pull down the ridges, before they break or bend; having been forced to try them upon ridged lands: because he could not walk upon either of their grounds without stumbling on the ridges. Written by Ellis Bradshavv of the parish of Bolton, in the county of Lancaster, husbandman. London: printed for E.B. and are to be sold by Giles Calvert at the black spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls, 1649. ESTC No. R206095. Grub Street ID 82668.