Publications of Samuel Brooks

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 Brooks

  • England and Wales. Parliament.. A perfect list of the names of the knights, citizens, burgesses, and barons of the cinque ports of England and VVales, for the Parliament begun at Westminster the eighth day of May, in the 13th year of the reign of King Charles the 2d. 1661. As they are returned into the crown office. The reader is desired to take notice, that there are divers false lists printed; and that this is the only true one extant. London: printed from the Crown Office for Samuel Brooks, and are to be sold by most booksellers, [1661]. ESTC No. R212123. Grub Street ID 87785.