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

  • A new miscellany for the year 1737. Containing I. The vision of the golden rump, printed in the Papers call'd Common Sense, of March 19. and March 26. II. A dissertation upon kicking, printed in the same Paper of June 11. III. The Lord C-d's speech against the Play-Bill, in the House of Peers. IV C---- C----r's letter to the Craftsman, upon the Bill for restraining the Stage, printed in that Paper of July 2. London: printed by S. Osborn, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, [1737]. ESTC No. T997. Grub Street ID 318790.
  • Grange, James Erskine. Reasons against the bill before the House of Lords, (for disabling the Lord Provost of the city of Edinburgh, to hold any office of magistracy, and for fining the said city in L.2000 sterling) Chiefly with regard to the said City and Citizens. London: printed by S. Osborn, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, [1737]. ESTC No. T95297. Grub Street ID 314809.
  • 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.
  • Philoleutherus.. A faithful narrative of the capture of the ship Derby, (belonging to the Honourable the East-India Company, Abraham Anselm Commander) by Angria the pirate, on the coast of Mallabar, December 26. 1735. London: printed and sold by S. Osborn, and by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1738. ESTC No. T93419. Grub Street ID 313120.