Publications of Elizabeth Webster

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 Elizabeth Webster

  • News from the sessions-house. The tryal, conviction, condemnation, and execution of Popery, for high-treason; in betraying the kingdom, and conspiring the ruin, subversion, and death of the Protestant religion. With her last speech and confession at Tyburn. London: printed by E. Webster, for J. Gibbs, 1689. ESTC No. R218861. Grub Street ID 93463.
  • Andrews, William. News from the stars: or, An ephemeris for the year, 1689. With observations upon the eclipses, solar ingresses and configurations of heaven happening therein. Being the first since the bissextile, or leap-year. And from the creation of the world, according to the best of history, 5638 years. Wherein you have an account of many things about the heavenly bodies, and their portents in the said year. By Willam Andrews, student in astrology. London: printed by Eliz. Webster, for the Company of Stationers, 1689. ESTC No. R35277. Grub Street ID 117695.
  • Coley, Henry. Nuncius sydereus: or The starry messenger, for the year of our redemption, 1689. And from the creation, according to Sacred Writ, 5638. Being the first after bissextile, or leap-year. Wherein is contained, (1) astronomical and meteorological observations. (2) The state of the year, ... (3) The rising and setting of the sun and moon: also her southing; together with many useful tables pertinent for such a work, accommodated to the meridian of London, which lies in the latitude of 51 deg. 32 min. north, but may indifferently serve (without sensible error) for any other part of Great Britain. To which is added the good and bad days, throughout the year: also an ephemeris of the diurnal motions and aspects of the planets; together with a table of houses for the foresaid latitude, &c. the like (in all particulars) not extant in any other. By Henry Coley, student in the mathematicks, and the c.lestial science. The eighteenth impression.. London: printed by E[lizabeth]. W[ebster]. for the Company of Stationers, [1689]. ESTC No. R36751. Grub Street ID 119007.