Publications of Sam. Ford

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. Ford

  • Defoe, Daniel. Every-body's business is no-body's business; or, Private abuses, public grievances. Exemplified in the pride, insolence, and exorbitant wages of our women-servants, footmen, &c. With a proposal for amendment of the same: as also, for clearing the streets of those vermin called shoe-cleaners, and substituting in their stead many thousands of industrious poor now ready to starve. With divers other hints, of great use to the publick. Humbly submitted to the consideration of our legislature, and the careful perusal of all masters and mistresses of families. By A. M. Esq;. London: Printed for Sam. Ford; and sold by all the booksellers in town and country, 1767. ESTC No. N7032. Grub Street ID 50967.