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 for Samuel Mason

  • Colman, Benjamin. Souls flying to Jesus Christ pleasant and admirable to behold. A sermon preach'd to a very crowded Audience, at the opening an evening-lecture, in Brattle-Street, Boston, Tuesday, October 21, 1740. By Dr. Colman. Printed at the Desire of Many. To which is prefix'd, A Preface giving a brief Account of the great and remarkable Success that has lately attended the Labours of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield, the Reverend Mr. Gilbert Tenant, and others in those Parts. London]: Boston printed, London reprinted for Samuel Mason, Bookseller, over against Love-Lane, in Wood-Street, MDCCXLI. [1741. ESTC No. T49539. Grub Street ID 277329.