Publications of Sam. Gibbons

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 Sam. Gibbons

  • Rules and orders for the better government of the King's Bench Prison, Made and sign'd by the lord chief justice and judges of His Majesty's Court of the King's Bench, whose names are hereunto subscribed, this five and twentieth day of November, in the third year of the reign of our sovereign Lord King George the second, and in the year of our lord 1729. In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (Assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq;) for Sam. [G]ibbans, next the Temple Church, and John [Church]burgh, at the Sun near the Inner Temple Gate in Fleet-street, MDCCXXIX. [1729]. ESTC No. N48731. Grub Street ID 33216.