Publications of Samuel Leake

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 Samuel Leake

  • A select office for the Holy Communion, consisting of occasional prayers and meditations, Collected out of such Authors only, as are thought to have excelled in this Kind of Writing; To which are prefixed some propositions, and two discourses. Wherein Are Shown The Nature, End, and Design of the Holy Communion; the Obligations to frequent it, and the Qualifications or Preparation necessary, in order to a due and worthy Receiving it: and that the Fears and Scruples occasioned by the Words of St. Paul, about Eating and Drinking our own Damnation, are groundless. The Communion Service, likewise, is bound up with this Book, in order to make it Complete. London: printed for S. Leake at Bath, and C. Henderson under the Royal-Exchange, MDCCLVIII. [1758]. ESTC No. T126218. Grub Street ID 176237.
  • Oliver, William. A practical essay on the use and abuse of warm bathing in gouty cases. By William Oliver, . The third edition, with additions.. London: printed for Samuel Leake, in Bath; and sold by Hawes and Co., London, 1764. ESTC No. N20450. Grub Street ID 9852.