Publications of C. Sympson

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 C. Sympson

  • A voyage on the sea of reflection, or, a conversion to christianity. An essay. Address'd to the reader. London: printed by C. Sympson, [1770?]. ESTC No. T52633. Grub Street ID 279678.

Sold by C. Sympson

  • Defoe, Daniel. The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders. Containing, 1. Her being born in Newgate, and manner of being brought up among gipsies, who left her to the care of the Parish of Colchester II. Her being debauch'd at the age of sixteen by her lady's eldest son; and some time after married to his own brother, who dying left her with two children. III. Her marrying a rich planter, who carried her to Virginia where his estate lay, and having a child by him; her discoursing with his mother one day, when she discovered it to be her own mother also. IV. Her refusing to live in incest with him, and return to England. V. Her intrigue with a gentleman at Bath by whom she had a son. VI. Her marriage in Lancashire with a gentleman, who proved to be an Irish fortune hunter. VII. Her being detected in a robbery, trial at the Old Bailey, and transportation with her Lancashire husband. VIII. Arrival at Virginia, seeing her son by her own brother, growing rich, and dying penitent, in the 77th ye. [The seventh edition.]. London: Printed and sold by C. Sympson, in Stonecutter-street, Fleet-Market, [between 1761 and 1790?]. ESTC No. N32077. Grub Street ID 20894.

Printed for C. Sympson

  • Lover of truth.. A true narrative of the proceedings, with general remarks on the evidence given upon the memorable trials of Mary Squires, and Elizabeth Canning; the latter of which received sentence of transportation for perjury, on Thursday May 30, with a list of the gentlemen for and against the mitigation of the sentence. Fully explaining The many Absurdities, Inconsistencies, and Contradictions in the Depositions of the Witnesses. The Acquittal of the Abbotsbury Men from the Charge of Perjury; with Counsellor Davy's Speech on that Occasion. The Whole Course of this mysterious Affair traced from its Original, and set in a true Light. Impartially considered by a lover of truth. To which is prefixed, the effigies of Mary Squires, and Elizabeth Canning. London: printed for C. Sympson, at the Bible-Warehouse, Chancery-Lane, MDCCLV. (mdccliv) [1754]. ESTC No. N14154. Grub Street ID 4044.