Publications of Samuel Willison:

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 Willison:

  • Willison, John. A sacramental catechism: or, a familiar instructor for young communicants. Plainly unfolding the Nature of the Covenant of Grace, With the two Seals thereof, Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Wherein, Especially the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, is fully and distinctly handled, both in a Doctrinal and Practical Manner. With many Cases of Conscience relative thereto, intermixed and resolved, for the Relief and Support of those who are exercised to Godliness. With an appendix, Containing suitable Materials for Meditation and Prayer, both before and after Partaking. To which are added, an action sermon on Rev. xxii. 17. and Sacramental Speeches before, at, and after serving the Tables; taken from the Author's Manuscripts, since his Death. By the Reverend Mr. John Willison, late Minister of the Gospel at Dundee. Edinburgh: printed by Samuel Willison: and sold at his printing house in Turk's Close, and by the booksellers of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, &c., MDCCLXII. [1762]. ESTC No. N36186. Grub Street ID 24165.