Publications of Samuel Aris the First

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 Aris the First

  • Carwitham, (Thomas). T. The description and use of an architectonick sector, and also of the architectonick sliding plates whereby scales of all sizes are most readily and universally obtain'd for fluting pillasters and columns, and Drawing the Geometrical Planes and Uprights, in any of the Five orders, according to the given Diameter of a Column. With several other scales, very Convenient and Ready for the Practice of the Ingenious Designers of Buildings. By T. Carwitham of Twickenham. London: printed by S. Aris for Thomas Heath, at the Hercules, next Door to the Fountain Tavern in the Strand, 1723. ESTC No. T148768. Grub Street ID 194902.
  • Thesaurus dramaticus. Containing all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the body of English plays, ... digested under-proper topics; ... In two volumes. . London: printed by Sam. Aris, for Thomas Butler, 1724. ESTC No. T134540. Grub Street ID 183166.
  • Haywood, Eliza. Secret histories, novels and poems. In four volumes. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood. The second edition.. London: printed [partly by Samuel Aris] for Dan. Browne, jun. at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar; and S. Chapman, at the Angel in Pall-Mall, M.DCC.XXV. [1725]. ESTC No. T66936. Grub Street ID 291601.
  • Gay, John. Polly: an opera. Being the second part of The beggar's opera. Written by Mr. Gay. London: printed [by James Watson and Samuel Aris] for T. Thomson, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1729. ESTC No. T13801. Grub Street ID 185888.
  • Dawson, Thomas. An appeal to the genuine records and testimonies of heathen and Jewish writers; being full evidence for the truth of the Christian religion, and its primitive doctrines. In several conferences. Part I. London: printed by S. Aris, for L. Gilliver, at Homer's-Head in Fleet-Street, M.DCC.XXX. [1730]. ESTC No. T103818. Grub Street ID 157425.
  • Waterland, Daniel. The nature, obligation, and efficacy, of the Christian sacraments, considered; In reply to a pamphlet; intituled, an answer to the remarks upon Dr. Clarke's exposition of the church-catechism. As also the comparative value of moral and positive duties distinctly stated and cleared. By the author of the remarks. London: Printed by Sam. Aris for John Crownfield, at the Rising-Sun in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and sold by Cornelius Crownfield, printer to the University of Cambridge, M.DCC.XXX. [1730]. ESTC No. T153595. Grub Street ID 197884.