Publications of S. Rudder

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 S. Rudder

  • Impartial Hand.. The cirencester contest. Containing all the letters, papers, verses, songs, &c. Relative to the election, that have been printed on all sides, from the beginning of the opposition to this time. And some originals. Connected and disposed in the same Order they came out; and each Paper connected with the preceding one, in such Manner as to make the Whole a compleat Narrative of the most material Passages on that Occasion. With an introductory preface, and a few remarks and observations. By an impartial hand. Cirencester: printed by S. Rudder; and sold by Mess. J. and J. Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and J. Robinson, in Ludgate-Street, London, [1750?]. ESTC No. N27582. Grub Street ID 16830.