Publications of Sam. Helsham

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 Sam. Helsham

  • Bolron, Robert. The papists bloody oath of secrecy, and letany of intercession for the carrying on of this present plot. With the manner of taking the oath, upon their entring into any grand conspiracy against the Protestants. As it was taken in the chappel belonging to Barmbow-Hall, th residence of Sir Thomas Gascoigne, from William Rushton, a popish priest, by me Robert Bolron. Together with some further informations, relating to the plot, and murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey. Jovis 16th. die Decembris, 1680. Ordered, that Mr. Robert Bolron have liberty from this house, to print and publish the said oath of secrecy and letany. William Goldsbrough, Cler. Dom. Com. Dublin: reprinted by Jos. Ray, at College-Green, for Sam. Helsham and Jos. Howes, and are to be sold by the rest of the booksellers of Dublin, 1681. ESTC No. R24664. Grub Street ID 108427.