Publications of Elizabeth. Whitlook

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 and for, or by/for and sold by Elizabeth. Whitlook

  • C., R.. Lithobolia: or, The stone-throwing devil. Being an exact and true account (by way of journal) of the various actions of infernal spirits, or (devils incarnate) witches, or both; and the great disturbance and amazement they gave to George Waltons family, at a place call'd Great Island in the province of New-Hantshire in New-England, chiefly in throwing about (by an invisible hand) stones, bricks, and brick-bats of all sizes, with several other things, as hammers, mauls, iron-crows, spits, and other domestick utensils, as came into their hellish minds, and this for the space of a quarter of a year. By R.C. Esq; who was a sojourner in the same family the whole time, and an ocular witness of these diabolick inventions. The contents hereof being manifestly known to the inhabitants of that province, and persons of other provinces, and is upon record in his Majesties council-court held for that province. London: printed, and are to be sold by E[lizabeth]. Whitlook [i.e. Whitlock] near Stationers-Hall, 1698. ESTC No. R8747. Grub Street ID 128883.