Publications of Samuel Ferris

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 Ferris

  • Walker, Anthony. Evel ya.hid = planctus unigeniti: et spes resuscitandi. Or, The bitter sorrows for a first-born, sweetned with the hopes, of a better resurrection. With consolations, moral, and diuine, against the death of friends, suited to the present occasion. Deliuered, in a funeral sermon, at Felsted in Essex, May, 23. 1664. At the solemn interment of the Right Honourable, Charles Lord Rich, the only child, of the Right Honourable the Earle of Warwick. By A. Walker, D.D. rector of Fyfield, in the same county, and one of His Majesties chaplains. London: printed by Thomas Mabb, for Samuel Ferris, at his shop, in Cannon Street, over against London Stone, 1664. ESTC No. R24590. Grub Street ID 108361.