Publications of William Ellis

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."

Sold by William Ellis

  • Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage. Cyprian's sermon, Or Declaration concerning the good or benefit or patience. Delivered by him in Latin, and now translated into English. By Richard Claridge. London: Printed and sold by William Ellis, at the Queen's Head, in Grace-Church-Street, 1724. ESTC No. T190493. Grub Street ID 225643.

Printed for William Ellis

  • Haywood, Eliza. The dumb projector: being a surprizing account of a trip to Holland made by Mr. Duncan Campbell. With The Manner of his Reception and Behaviour there. As also The various and diverting Occurrences that happened on his Departure. London: printed for W. Ellis at the Queen's Head in Gracechurch-Street; J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane; Mrs. Bilingsly at the Royal-Exchange; A. Dod without Temple-Bar; and J. Fox in Westminster-Hall, 1725. ESTC No. T35027. Grub Street ID 265233.
  • Haywood, Eliza. A spy on the conjurer. Or, a collection of surprising and diverting stories, with merry and ingenious letters. By way of memoirs of the famous Mr. Duncan Campbell, demonstrating the astonishing Foresight of that Wonderful Deaf and Dumb Man. The Whole being Moral and Instructive. Written to my Lord-----by a Lady, who, for Twenty Years past, has made it her Business to observe all Transactions in the Life and Conversation of Mr. Campbell. Revised by Mrs. Eliz. Haywood. London: printed for William Ellis, at the Queens Head in Gracechurch-Street; J. Brotherton, near the Royal-Exchange; J. Batley, in Pater-Noster-Row; T. Woodward, at Half-Moon against St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-Street; J. Fox, in Westminster-Hall, [1725]. ESTC No. T75683. Grub Street ID 298313.
  • The glorious truth of universal grace and atonement exalted: in a treatise concerning I. Election and reprobation, necessity and freedom. II. The divine prescience. III. The extent and intent of the death of Jesus Christ. IV. The divinity, universality and sufficiency of the light, Spirit, and grace of God. V. The gospel, and law of grace. VI. The state of the Heathen. Vii. The perseverance or defectibility of the saints. Viii. With a clear and full answer to the strongest objections usually made against universal grace and atonement. By Thomas Thompson. London: printed for William Ellis at the Queen's-Head in Grace-Church-Street, 1725. ESTC No. T145064. Grub Street ID 191841.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by William Ellis

  • Claridge, Richard. Tractatus hierographicus: or, a treatise of the Holy Scriptures; Containing, I. An Exhortation to the diligent Reading of the Holy Scriptures. II. A Declaration of the true Way, whereby we may come to know a Profiting in the Reading of them. III. That it is by the Testimony of the Holy Spirit of God in the Hearts of the Faithful, that they do certainly and savingly know that the Holy Scriptures are given by Inspiration of God. IV. That the Holy Spirit of God is the principal and only certain and infallible Expositor or Interpreter of them. V. That we may certainly know, whether we have the Holy Spirit of God, and that our Doctrine is of him. By Richard Claridge. London: printed and sold by W. Ellis at the Queen's Head in Grace-Church-Street, 1724. ESTC No. T102507. Grub Street ID 156317.