Publications of E. Read

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. Read

  • Cavendish, George. Sir William Cavendish's Memoirs of the life of Cardinal Woolsey, Legate for the Pope, Archbishop of York, Bishop of Winchester, Lord High-Chancellor of England, and Principal Minister of State in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth. Containing I. His Rise and Excessive Power. II. His Embassies, Negociations and Treaties of Peace with Germany and France, &c. III. His Secret Transactions in Church and State. IV. The Plots of the Nobility against him. V. The King's Descent into France. VI. An Account of the Perpetual Peace 'twixt the English and French, sign'd and swore to by both Kings. Vii. The Cardinal's Contrivances to humor the King's Amours and Entertainments. Viii. His Fall, Last Speech, and Death. To which is added, a memorial against favourites, presented to Q. Elizabeth, written by the Lord-Treasurer Burleigh. The second edition.. London: printed, and are to be sold by E. Read, the Corner of Vere-Street, against Clare-Market, 1708. ESTC No. N23328. Grub Street ID 12687.

Printed for E. Read

  • D., W.. A supplement to the first part of the Gentleman instructed, with a word to the ladies. Written for the instruction of the young nobility of both sexes. London: printed for E. Read at the Bible and Lamb the Corner of Duke-Street, and sold by J. Morphew near Stationer's-Hall, 1708. ESTC No. N24730. Grub Street ID 14078.