Publications of Edward Cave

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 Edward Cave

  • Simpson, Thomas. The nature and laws of chance. Containing, among other particulars, the solutions of several abstruse and important problems. ... The whole after a new, general, and conspicuous manner, and illustrated with a great variety of examples. By Thomas Simpson, . London]: Printed by Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate. 1740. And sold by the booksellers, [1740. ESTC No. T78204. Grub Street ID 300081.

Printed for Edward Cave

  • Cooke, John. Thirty nine sermons on several occasions: by the late Reverend John Cooke, A. M. Rector of the United Parishes of St George the Martyr and St. Mary Magdalen in Canterbury, and of Mersham in Kent, and one of the Six Preachers of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury. Publish'd from the Manuscript Copy prepar'd by himself for the Press. . The second edition.. London: printed for Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate, M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736]. ESTC No. N27349. Grub Street ID 16603.