Publications of Samuel Sympson

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 Sympson

  • Turner, John. The middle way betwixt necessity and freedom. The second part. Being an apologetical vindication of the former. By John Turner, late fellow of Christs-College in Cambridge. London: printed for Samuel Sympson bookseller in Cambridge, 1683. ESTC No. R203722. Grub Street ID 80814.

Author

  • Sympson, Samuel. A new book of cyphers, more compleat and regular than any yet extant. Wherein the whole alphabet (twice over,) Consisting of Six Hundred Cyphers, is variously changed, interwoven and reversed. Being A Work very Entertaining to such as are Curious, and Useful to all sorts of Artificers in general. Compos'd and engrav'd by Samuel Sympson. London: printed for Samuel Sympson Engraver in Catherine-Street in the Strand, B. Cole Engraver at the Sun a Lace Shop in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and sold by J. Clark Engraver and Print-Seller in Grays-Inn, Tho. Taylor at the Golden Lyon and P. Overton at the Golden Buck Print sellers in Fleet-Street, T. Bowles in St. Paul's Church-Yard, J. Bowles over against Stocks-Market, and Mr. Reigner Print-Seller in Newport-Street, [1726]. ESTC No. T145073. Grub Street ID 191848.
  • Sympson, Samuel. A new book of cyphers, more compleat & regular than any ever publish'd. Wherein the whole alphabet (trvice over) Consisting of 600 Cyphers, is variously chang'd, interwoven & revers'd. Very Entertaining to ye Curious, & useful to all sorts of Artificers. By S. Sympson. London: printed for John Bowles and Son, at the Black Horse, in Cornhill, [1750?]. ESTC No. T132195. Grub Street ID 181142.