Publications of Sam. and

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 Sam. and

  • Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-. Directions for a holy life, and the attaining Christian perfection. By the Archbishop of Cambray. Recommended to the serious perusal of the lovers of truth, ... Bristol: printed by Sam. and Felix Farley, 1739. ESTC No. N54785. Grub Street ID 38430.

Sold by Sam. and

  • Catcott, A. S. An answer to the observations on a sermon preach'd before the corporation of Bristoll, and the Lord Chief Justice Hardwicke, on Sunday the 16th day of August, MDCCXXXV. ... By Alex. Stopford Catcott, ... As also an appendix, ... by the author of the sermon. Bristoll: printed and sold by Sam. and Felix Farley; sold also by W. Cossley, M. Lewis, J. Wilson, and P. Brown in Bristoll; and by Messrs. Knapton, Messrs. Innys and Manby, C. Rivington, and C. Corbett, in London; J. Leake at Bath; Mr. Piesly at Oxford; Mr. Crownfield at Cambridge; and R. Raikes at Gloucester, 1737. ESTC No. T87554. Grub Street ID 307598.

Printed for Sam. and

  • The duty of children to parents. London: printed for Sam. and Will. Keble at the Turk's-Head in Fleet-street, [1701?]. ESTC No. R222976. Grub Street ID 96898.