Publications of Samuel Mason

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 Mason

  • Robe, James. A short narrative of the extraordinary work of God at Cambuslang, near Glasgow. Attested by the Rev. Mr. M'Culloch, minister of the Parish, and by several eminent divines in Scotland. To which is added, a letter from the minister of Kilsyth, (a Parish on the other side of Glasgow) to a gentleman at Edinburgh: giving some account of the same extraordinary work appearing also in those parts. Printed in the same size, and fit to be bound with Mr. Edward's distinguishing marks of a work of the spirit of God. The second edition.. London]: First printed at Glasgow, now reprinted at London; and sold by Samuel Mason, in Woodstreet, near St. Alban's Church, [1742?. ESTC No. T175335. Grub Street ID 212423.