Publications of Samuel Powell

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 Samuel Powell

  • The Dublin evening-post. Dublin [Ireland]: printed by S[amuel]. Powell in Crane-lane, where all manner of printing work is done, at reasonable rates, [1732]-. ESTC No. P1629. Grub Street ID 55418.
  • Dryden, John. The Spanish fryar: or, the double discovery: a tragi-comedy. Written by Mr. Dryden. Dublin: printed by S. Powell. For Philip Crampton, 1733. ESTC No. N23904. Grub Street ID 13266.
  • The weekly miscellany. [Dublin, Ireland]: This paper will appear every Thursday, and be sent to subscribers at a British shilling per quarter, to be paid at subscribing, by Edward Exshaw, bookseller, at the Bible on the Blind-Key, near Cork-Hill, where advertisements for this paper are taken in and by S[amuel]. Powell, printer hereof. ESTC No. P1630. Grub Street ID 55419.
  • Robins, Benjamin. Observations on the present convention with Spain. Dublin: printed by S. Powell, for George Faulkner, in Essex-Street, opposite to the Bridge, 1739. ESTC No. N10056. Grub Street ID 67.
  • Wesley, John. A plain account of the people called Methodists. In a letter to the Revd. Mr. Perronet. Vicar of Shoreham in Kent. Dublin: printed by S. Powell in Crane-Lane, MDCCXLIX. [1749]. ESTC No. N11514. Grub Street ID 1515.
  • Cumberland, Richard. A philosophical enquiry into the laws of nature: wherein The Essence, the Principal Heads, the Order, the Publication, and the Obligation of these laws are deduced from The nature of things. Wherein also, the principles of Mr. Hobbes's philosophy, both in a State of Nature, and of Civil Society, are examined into, and confuted. Written originally in Latin by the Right Reverend Father in God, Richard Cumberland, D. D. Late Lord Bishop of Peterborough. And translated into English, With large Explanatory Notes, and an Appendix, by the Reverend John Towers, D. D. Prebendary of St. Patrick's Cathedral Church, Dublin, and Vicar of Castleknock, &c. Dublin: printed by Samuel Powell in Crane-Lane, MDCCL. [1750] [1751]. ESTC No. T140744. Grub Street ID 188431.
  • Edwards, Morgan. A farewel discourse delivered at the Baptist meeting in Rye. On February 8, 1761. Printed, by them who heard it, in testimony of their affection to their late minister. By Morgan Edwards, A.M. Dublin: reprinted by Sam. Powell, Printer in Crane-Lane, and J. Fisher, Bookseller, in the Old Exchange on Corkhill, M,DCC,LXII. [1762]. ESTC No. T11766. Grub Street ID 169246.

Sold by Samuel Powell

  • Reasons humbly offer'd against a proposal for suppressing the method of agriculture, commonly called burning or burnbaiting of land. [Dublin: printed and sold by S. Powell, 1744]. ESTC No. N14455. Grub Street ID 4328.
  • Drake, Peter. The memoirs of Capt. Peter Drake. Containing an account of many strange and surpising events, which happened to Him through a Series of Sixty Years, and upwards; and several material anecdotes, regarding King William and Queen Anne's wars with Lewis XIV. of France. Dublin: printed and sold by S. Powell in Crane-Lane, for the author, MDCCLV. [1755]. ESTC No. T145643. Grub Street ID 192371.

Printed for Samuel Powell

  • Towgood, Micaiah. A dissent from the Church of England, fully justified: and proved the genuine and just consequence of the allegiance due to Christ, the only lawgiver in the church. Being the dissenting gentleman's three letters and postscript, in answer to Mr. John White's on that subject. Dublin: printed for S. Powell and Son, 1766. ESTC No. T182250. Grub Street ID 218747.
  • Whitehead, William. A trip to Scotland. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. Dublin: printed for S. Powell, P. and W. Wilson, J. Exshaw, H. Bradley, J. Potts, D. Chamberlaine, W. Sleator, H. Saunders, S. Watson, J. Williams, J. Hoey, Jun. J. Porter, and T. Walker, MDCCLXX. [1770]. ESTC No. N13866. Grub Street ID 3763.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by Samuel Powell

  • Letters to His Grace the Lord Primate of all Ireland. Containing a vindication of the doctrine and character of Saint Paul, in answer to the objections of the late Lord Bolinbroke. By John Brett, D. D. Rector of Moynalty in the Diocese of Meath, and of Fercullen in the Diocese of Kildare. Dublin: printed and sold by S Powell in Crane-Lane, 1755. ESTC No. T123047. Grub Street ID 173553.