Publications of Samuel Fabyan

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 Samuel Fabyan

  • Adams, Joseph. The death of the righteous to be lamented. A sermon preached upon the death of John Fabyan, Esq; who deceased March 30th 1756. Aetatis suae 75. By Joseph Adams, A.M. and Pastor of the church at Newington. [One line from Proverbs]. Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire: Printed by Daniel Fowle, for Samuel Fabyan, 1757. ESTC No. W835. Grub Street ID 357437.