Publications of Eliz. Purslow

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 Eliz. Purslow

  • Markham, Gervase. The inrichment of the Weald of Kent: or, A direction to the husband-man, for the true ordering, manuring, & inriching of all the grounds within the Wealds of Kent, and Sussex; and may generally serve for all the grounds in England of that nature: as, 1. Shewing the natur of all wealdish grounds, comparing it with the soyle of the shires at large. 2. Declaring what the marle is, and the severall sorts thereof, and where it is usually found. 3. The profitable use of marle, and other rich manuring, as well in each sort of arable land, as also for the increase of corn and pasture through the kingdome. Painfully gathered for the good of this iland, by a man of great eminence and worth, but revised, inlarged, and corrected with the consent, and by conference with the first author ; by Gervase Markham. London: printed by Eliz. Purslow, for John Harison, and are to be sold at his Shop at the signe of the Holy-Lambe at the East-end of Pauls, 1649. ESTC No. R619. Grub Street ID 126549.