Publications of E.P. 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.P. and

  • Shelton, Thomas. A tutor to tachygraphy, or short-vvriting, wherein the rules of the said art are severally explained by way of questions and answers, to the weakest capacities that desire to learne the art. Whereunto are added, diverse new rules and directions never published till now, for the further perfecting of such as have already learned. By Thomas Shelton, author and teacher of the said art. London: printed by E.P. and are to bee sold at the authors house in Old-Fish-street, 1642. ESTC No. R220252. Grub Street ID 94656.

Printed for E.P. and

  • The humble petition of the vvretched, and most contemptible, the poore commons of England, to the blessed Elizabeth of famous memory. Also a most gratious answer, with a divine admonition and propheticall conclusion. London: ptinted [sic] for E.P. and E.B., July 23. 1642. ESTC No. R5688. Grub Street ID 126111.