Publications of Eleazer Phillips

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 for Eleazer Phillips

  • Wadsworth, Benjamin. A guide for the doubting, and cordial for the fainting, saint. Or, Directions and consolations for afflicted consciences: being an answer to above thirty particular doubts or objections; which many Christians are sometimes grievously disquieted with. By Benj. Wadsworth, A.M. Pastor of a church of Christ in Boston, N.E. [Four lines of Scripture texts]. Boston: Printed by B. Green, for Eleazar Phillips, at his shop the south side of the Town-House, 1711. ESTC No. W12539. Grub Street ID 321817.
  • Shepard, Jeremiah. Early offerings best accepted: and early preparations the best security against evil dayes, or, The wise mans counsel to the young man, laying a solemn charge upon all young persons, to begin to be good betimes; or, to remember their Creator, in the days of youth. The substance of what was more largely insisted on, from Eccle. xii 1. Preached at Lynn, in the county of Essex, N.E. By Jeremiah Shepard, M.A. And Pastor of the church there. [Five lines of Scripture texts]. Boston: Printed by B. Green, for Eleazer Phillips. Sold at his shop at the Sign of the Eagle in Newbury Street, 1712. ESTC No. W15110. Grub Street ID 324573.
  • Tompson, Edward. Heaven the best country. Being some of the last meditations and discourses of that faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Edward Tompson, late Pastor of the Church of Marshfield. Who being dead, yet speaketh. Boston: Printed by B. Green, for Eleazer Phillips at his shop in Charlestown, 1715. ESTC No. W12682. Grub Street ID 321968.
  • Henry, Matthew. The communicant's companion: or, Instructions and helps for the right receiving of the Lord's Supper. By Matthew Henry, late Minister of the Gospel. Boston: Re-printed by S. Kneeland, for Eleazer Phillips, at his shop in Charlestown, 1723. ESTC No. W10982. Grub Street ID 320141.