Publications of Samuel Thomson

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 Samuel Thomson

  • Howell, James. Lexicon tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish dictionary: whereunto is adjoined a large nomenclature of the proper terms (in all the four) belonging to several arts and sciences, to recreations, to professions both liberal and mechanick, &c. Divided into fiftie two sections, with another volume of the choicest proverbs in all the said toungs, (consising of divers compleat tomes) and the English translated into the other three, to take off the reproch which useth to be cast upon her, that she is but barren in this point, and those proverbs she hath are but flat and empty. Moreover, there are sundry familiar letters and verses running all in proverbs, with a particular tome of the Brittish or old Cambrian sayed-sawes and adages, which the author thought fit to annex hereunto, and make intelligible, for their great antiquity and weight: lastly, there are five centuries of new sayings, ... By the labours, and lucubrations of James Hovvell, Esq;. London: printed by J[ohn]. G[rismond]. for Samuel Thomson at the Bishops head in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1660. ESTC No. R14250. Grub Street ID 62296.

Author

  • Thomson, Samuel. February the first, 1666. Whereas Mr. Samuel Thomson is willing, by the favor and encouragement of the Royal Society, to undertake the reprinting of the second tome of Phisico-mathematical collections destroyed in the late fire;. London?: Samuel Thomson?, 1666. ESTC No. R208220. Grub Street ID 84494.
  • Thomson, Samuel. Poems, on different subjects, partly in the Scottish Dialect. By Samuel Thomson. Belfast: printed for the author, M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]. ESTC No. T199723. Grub Street ID 231713.
  • Thomson, Samuel. New poems, on a variety of different subjects. By Samuel Thomson. Belfast: printed by Doherty & Simms, 1799. ESTC No. T212505. Grub Street ID 239645.