Publications of Sam. Butler

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. Butler

  • Dyche, Thomas. A guide to the English tongue. In two parts. The First proper for Beginners, shewing a Natural and Easy Method to pronounce and express both Common Words, and Proper Names; in which particular Care is had to shew the Accent for preventing Vicious Pronunciation. The Second, for such as are advanc'd to some Ripeness of Judgment, containing Observations on the Sound of Letters and Diphthongs, Rules for the true Division of Syllables, and the Use of Capitals, Stops and Marks, with large Tables of Abbreviations and Distinctions of Words, and several Alphabets of Instructions for Young Writers. By Tho. Dyche Shool-Master in London. The second edition corrected.. London: printed for Sam. Butler at Bernard's-Inn-Gate in Holbourn, 1710. ESTC No. T113328. Grub Street ID 165273.