Publications of E. Holt.

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. Holt.

  • Gazophylacium Anglicanum: containing the derivation of English words, proper and common; each in an alphabet distinct: proving the Dutch and Saxon to be the prime fountains. And likewise giving the similar words in most European languages, whereby any of them may be indifferently well learned, and understood. Fitted to the capacity of the English reader, that may be curious to know the original of his mother-tongue. London: printed by E. H[olt]. and W. H[orton]. and are to be sold by Randall Taylor, near Stationers Hall, and by most booksellers in London and Westminster, MDCLXXXIX. [1689]. ESTC No. R388. Grub Street ID 120851.