Publications of Ephraim Goodale

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 Ephraim Goodale

  • Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope. Principles of politeness, and of knowing the world: by the late Lord Chesterfield. With additions, by the Rev. Dr. John Trusler. Containing every instruction necessary to complete the gentleman and man of fashion, to teach him a knowledge of life, and make him well receive in all companies. For the improvement of youth: yet not beneath the attention of any. Printed at Worcester [Mass.]: By Isaiah Thomas, Jun. for Ephraim Goodale, bookbinder, Mendon, August--1798. ESTC No. W18354. Grub Street ID 327956.