Publications of Stephen Powell

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 Stephen Powell

  • Gentleman lately arriv'd.. The history of Caledonia: or, The Scots Colony in Darien in the West-Indies. With an account of the manners of the inhabitants, and riches of the countrey, by a Gentleman lately arriv'd. Dublin: re-printed by Stephen Powell, at the back of Dick's coffee-House in Skinners-Row, for Josias Shaw, bookseller, at Russel's Coffee-House on Cork-hill, near the Exchange, MDCXCIX. [1699]. ESTC No. R40556. Grub Street ID 122330.
  • Quevedo, Francisco de. The visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, knight of the Order of St. James: ... Made English by Sir Roger Lestrange. Dublin: printed by S. Powell; and are to be sold by John Ware; and by the rest of the booksellers, 1712. ESTC No. N63188. Grub Street ID 45403.
  • Gay, John. Trivia: or, the art of walking the streets of London. By Mr. Gay. [Dublin]: London: printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys between the Temple Gates in Fleet-Street; and reprinted in Dublin, by S. Powell in Copper-Alley; for G. Risk at the London in Dames-Street, where may be had the Tragedy of Jane Gray, with her Life; and other New Plays, Maps, &c., 1716. ESTC No. T13933. Grub Street ID 187182.

Sold by Stephen Powell

  • A charge delivered to the clergy of the diocese of Ely at Cambridge, Aug. the VIIth. MDCCXVI. ... by William Ld. Bp. of Ely. [Dublin]: Cambridge printed: Dublin reprinted and sold by S. Powell; and by G. Risk, 1716. ESTC No. T165394. Grub Street ID 203650.