Publications of S. Lee

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 S. Lee

  • Settle, Elkanah. The siege of Troy, a dramatick performance, presented in Mrs. Mynn's great booth, in the Queen's-Arms-Yard near the Marshalsea-Gate in Southwark, during the time of the fair. Containing a description of all the scenes, machines, and movements, with the whole decoration of the play, and particulars of the entertainment. London: printed by S. Lee, at the White Swan in West-Smithfield and sold by J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall, [1707?]. ESTC No. T106863. Grub Street ID 159953.

Printed for S. Lee

  • S., J.. Profit and pleasure united, or, The husbandman's magazene. Being a most exact treatise of horses, mares, colts, bulls, oxen, cows, calves, sheep, swine, goats, and all other domestick cattle, serviceable, profitable, or usefull to man: ... together with easie and plain rules and methods for improving arrable and pasture-lands, and the like: improving most sorts of grain to the best advantage; and what is necessary to be observed in sowing and harvesting: the management, improvement and preservation of fruit-trees, plants and flowers: the manner of ordering flax, hemp, safforn and licrish: with directions for the increasing and preserving of bees, and many other things of the like nature. To which is added the art of angling, hunting, hawking, and the noble rcreation [sic] of ringing. and making fireworks. The whole elusterated with copper cuts. By J.S. London: printed for S. Lee at the Feathers in Lombard-street. And Andr. Thorncome, at the Golden Leg, on London-Bridge, 1684. ESTC No. R33764. Grub Street ID 116341.