Publications of Sam. Phillips

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. Phillips

  • Mather, Cotton. The wonders of the invisible world. Observations as well historical as theological, upon the nature, the number, and the operations of the devils. Accompany?d with, I. Some accounts of the grievous molestations, by daemons and witchcrafts, which have lately annoy'd th countrey; and the trials of some eminent malefactors executed upon occasion thereof: with several remarkable curiosities therein ocurring. II. Some counsils, directing a due improvement of the terrible things, lately done, by the unusual & amazing range of evil spirits, in our neighbourhood: & the methods to prevent the wrongs which those evil angels may intend against all sorts of people among us; especially in accusations of the innocent. III. Some conjectures upon the great events, likely to befall, the world in general, and New- England in particular; as also upon the advances of the time, when we shall see better dayes. IV A short narrative of a late outrage committed by a knot of witches in Swedeland, very much rese. Boston: printed by Benj. Harris for Sam. Phillips, 1693. [i.e. 1692]. ESTC No. R40456. Grub Street ID 122243.