Publications of S.W. Fores

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.W. Fores

  • Fores, (Samuel William). S. W. Nouveau guide des etrangers, par S.W. Fores; comprenant la description la plus complette et la plus exacte des cit'es de Londres, de Westminster, et de leurs environs, qui ait 'et'e publi'ee jusqu'`a pr'esent. Avec la description de tous les palais, maisons de plaisance et de campagne, parcs, jardins, collections de peintures, villes et villages, compris dans la distance de vingt-cinq milles aux environs de la m'etropole. Au quel on a ajout'e, le prix des fiacres en diff'erents tarifs, celui des bateliers, et une vari'et'e d'autres articles essentiels `a connoitre. En francois et en anglois, avec (ou sans) la carte de Londres; contenant par alphabet le nom des rues, plac'e au bas, avec leurs renvois pour les trouver dans la carte; --la carte de poche s'epar'ee avec son etui, deux chelins. C'est la premiere carte de poche avec le nom des rues qui ait 'et'e publi'ee. Londres: imprim'e par S.W. Fores, (no. 3,) Piccadilly, vis-`a-vis le Bureau de diligence de Paris, [1789?]. ESTC No. T124752. Grub Street ID 174926.