Publications of S. Hooper

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. Hooper

  • Addison, Joseph. Cato. A tragedy. By Joseph Addison, Esq;. London: printed by S. Hooper, in the Strand, M,DCCLXXIII. [1773]. ESTC No. T27009. Grub Street ID 258965.

Printed for S. Hooper

  • Shebbeare, John. An answer to the queries, contained in A letter to Dr. Shebbeare, printed in the Public Ledger, August 10. Together with animadversions on two speeches in defence of the printers of a paper, subscribed a South Briton. The first pronounced by The Right Hon. Thomas Townshend, in the House of Commons, And printed in the London Packet of February 18. The second by The Right Learned Counsellor Lee, in Guildhall, And printed in the Public Ledger of August 12. In the Examination of which a Comparison naturally arises between the public and private Virtues of Their Present Majesties, and those of King William and Queen Mary. The Merits, also, of Roman Catholics, and of Dissenters from the Church of England, respecting Allegiance and Liberty, and their Claims to National Protection, are fairly stated, from their past and present Transactions. By J. Shebbeare, M. D. London: printed for S. Hooper, at No. 25, Ludgate-Hill; and T. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, [1775]. ESTC No. N15230. Grub Street ID 4959.