Publications of Edward Brewster

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 Edward Brewster

  • Davies, John. Nosce teipsum: or, A leading-step to the knowledge of our selves, as the surest foundation to true religion in all persuasions. In a brief discourse of man's being made and undone, in order to his more happy recovery. And also of the original and nature of man's body, and soul; and of the faculties, or different ways of the soul's operation in the body. With a brief discourse of the Lord's Day, and of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. By an unworthy (but happy) proselite of religion and morality. To which is added a poem, treating of humane reason, and the nature original, and immortality of the soul; written nigh one hundred years since, by Sir John Davies, Attorney-General to Q. Elizabeth, and now herewith reprinted. London: printed, and are to be sold by Edward Brewster, at the Crane in St. Pauls's Church-yard; and Dorman Newman, at the King's-Arms in the Poultry, MDCLXXXIX. [1689]. ESTC No. R1698. Grub Street ID 64787.

Printed for Edward Brewster

  • A letter from the synod of Zeland, to the commissioners of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland: vvritten by them in Latin, and now faithfully translated into English: expressing, 1. Their fellow-feeling of the present condition of the Kirks of Ireland and England, and exciting us to the like. 2. Their respects and affection to the Kirk of Scotland. 3. Their zeale to the Reformation of the Kirk of England, in government and ceremonies, and to the preservation of religion there, against the pride of Popery at this time. 4. And their desire of Unity in Religion, and the Kirk-government in his Majesties Dominions. July 18. 1643. Imprimatur. John White. [London]: First printed at Edinburgh, and now reprinted at London for Edward Brewster, and are to be sold on Fleet-bridge, 1643. ESTC No. R12169. Grub Street ID 60381.