Publications of Sam. Illidge

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. Illidge

  • Rousset de Missy, Jean. The history of Cardinal Alberoni; chief favourite of their Catholick Majesties; and universal minister of the Spanish monarchy; from his birth to the year 1719. To which are added Considerations upon the present state of the Spanish monarchy. Faithfully translated from the originals. London: printed for Sam. Illidge under Serle's-Gate, Lincolns - Inn New Square; Tho. Corbet at Addison's Head without Temple-Bar; and Hen. Riboteau at the Crown near Exeter-Exchange in the Strand, MDCCXIX. [1719]. ESTC No. T133758. Grub Street ID 182482.