Publications of David Edwards midshipman

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 David Edwards midshipman

  • Great and good news to the Church of England: being the exact numbers of church-men, dissenters, and Romans, in England and Wales; as they were given to the late King James, on the 3d day of May, 1688, from an authentick calculation;. London: printed by David Edwards in Fetter Lane, and sold by the book-sellers of London and Westminster, 1700. ESTC No. R213806. Grub Street ID 89168.

Printed for David Edwards midshipman

  • Good news from the English fleet: being an account of a great and bloody engagement which happened yesterday, betwixt Their Majesties fleet, commanded by Admiral Killigrew, and the French fleet, near the Beachy: with a particular account of the taking six of their ships, and sinking three. September 17. Printed according to order. London: printed for David Edwards in the Strand, 1690. ESTC No. R226364. Grub Street ID 99409.

Author

  • Edwards, David, midshipman. Two elegies, one on the death of a friend, the other on an unfortunate seaman, found frozen to death in St. George's fields. By Mr. David Edwards, ... [Plymouth]: Sold by P. F. Maurice, No. 51, Fore-Street, Plymouth-Dock, [1785]. ESTC No. N25465. Grub Street ID 14817.