Publications of Elisha Babcock

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 Elisha Babcock

  • Strong, Nehemiah. An astronomical diary, calendar, or almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1798: ... Calculated for the meridian and horizon of Hartford, lat. 41 deg. 56 min. north; longit. 72 deg. 56 min. west. By Nehemiah Strong, late professor of mathematicks, and natural philosophy of Yale College. ... Hartford: Printed by Elisha Babcock (With privilege of copy-right.), [1797]. ESTC No. W25533. Grub Street ID 335521.

Author

  • Babcock, Elisha. [The] subscribers humbly beg leave to present to [...] Proposals, for printing by subscription, in the town of Springfield, commonwealth of Massachusetts, a weekly newspaper, entitled, The Massachusetts gazette, or The Springfield and Northampton weekly advertiser. [Springfield, Mass.: Published by Elisha Babcock and Anthony Haswell, 1782]. ESTC No. W23320. Grub Street ID 333216.
  • Babcock, Elisha. The child's spelling book: calculated to render reading completely easy to little children; to impress upon their minds the importance of religion, and the advantages of good manners. Compiled by a printer. Hartford: Printed by John Babcock, 1798. ESTC No. W26824. Grub Street ID 336891.
  • Babcock, Elisha. The child's spelling book: calculated to render reading completely easy to little children; to impress upon their minds the importance of religion, and the advantages of good manners. --By a printer. Hartford:: Printed by John Babcock, 1800. ESTC No. W30317. Grub Street ID 340642.