Publications of S. Osborn

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. Osborn

  • Nugent, Robert Nugent. An ode on Mr. Pulteney. To which is added, a new epitaph. London: Printed by S. Osborn, near St. Paul's, MDCCXXXIX. [1739]. ESTC No. T70023. Grub Street ID 293841.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by S. Osborn

  • Letters in the original, with translations, and messages, that passed between the King, Queen, Prince, and Princess of Wales, on occasion of the birth of the young princess. N.B. To this edition are added, the message of the late King, &c. with A Character of the Princess * * * not printed in any other Edition. London: printed and sold by S. Osborn, near St. Paul's, and by the booksellers of London and Westminster, [1737]. ESTC No. T110474. Grub Street ID 162997.