Publications of E, [sic]

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, [sic]

  • Crashaw, William. The Iesuites gospel by W. Crashawe, B. of Diuinity and preacher at the Temple. London: printed by E, [sic] A[llde]. for Leonard Becket, and are to be solde at his shop in the Temple nere the church, 1610. ESTC No. S113949. Grub Street ID 133674.

Printed for E, [sic]

  • Copley, Commisary. Lionel. A letter sent from a gentleman to Mr. Henry Martin Esquire, a Member of the House of Commons, from Worcester this 19. of Octob. 1642. who was imployed by his Exellence [sic] to deliver a letter to the Earle of Dorset, with the votes of both Houses of Parliament concernin a petition to be delivered to his Majestie. Shewing the desperate resolution of the cavalliers, who sweare they will neither give nor take quarter. Ordered by the Commons that this letter be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Elsing Cleric. Parl. D. Com. London: printed by L. Norton, for E, [sic] Husbands and Iohn Frank, and are to be sold next dore unto the Kings Head in Fleetstreete, anno Dom. MDCXLII. [1642]. ESTC No. R27917. Grub Street ID 111051.