Publications of E. Rumball

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. Rumball

  • Coley, Henry. Merlinus Anglicus junior or, The starry messneger. For the year of our redemption, 1717. Being the first after bissextile, or leap-year. Wherein is contained both astronomical and astrological observacions, with the state of the year deduced according to art, from the solar ingresses, eclipses, various configurations, and aspects of the planets. The risting setting and southing of the moon. A table of the kings and queen regins: a perpetual table of break of day, twilight, lenght of day, sun rising and setting to every fifth day throughout the year. Also a plain and easy table of interest, and another shewing the bearing, distance, longest day and difference of meridians, of most principal cities in the world, from London: together with ptolemts table of houses, with all other necessaries fitting for such a work; accommodated to the meridian of London, whose latitude is 51 deg 32 min. north; but will serve for any part of Great Britain, or Ireland. To which ... monthly observations, and pre. London: Printed by E. Rumball for the Company of Stationers, 1717. ESTC No. T16952. Grub Street ID 207366.