Publications of Samuel Idle

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 Samuel Idle

  • Moore, Francis. Vox stellarum: or, a loyal almanack for the year of human redemption, 1738. Being the Second after Bissextile, or Leap-Year. In which is contained all Things fitting for such a Work; as, A Table of Terms and their Returns; the Fulls, Changes, and Quarters of the Moon; the Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Seven Stars, and other Fix'd Stars of Note; the Moon's Age, and A Tide-Table fitted to the same; the Rising and Setting of the Sun; the Rising, Southing and Setting of the Moon; Mutual Aspects, Monthly Observations, and many other Things useful and pleasant. Unto which is added, Astrological Observations on the Four Quarters of the Year; an Hieroglyphick alluding to these present Times, with some Observations thereon: A remarkable Chronology; the Eclipses, and other Matters both curious and profitable. By Francis Moore, Physician. London: printed by Samuel Idle, for the Company of Stationers, [1738]. ESTC No. T16880. Grub Street ID 206673.