Publications of S. Simmons

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 S. Simmons

  • Peckwell, Henry. A sermon preached at the cathedral church in Lincoln, on Sunday the 14th of September, 1783, for the benefit of the County Hospital. By Henry Peckwell, D. D. Rector of Bloxham with Digby, and Chaplain to the Marchioness of Lothian. Remember the Poor. Lincoln: printed by S. Simmons, 1783. Sold by Dilly, Poultry; Vallance, Cheapside; Mathews, Strand, London; and Merrills Cambridge, [1783]. ESTC No. T56109. Grub Street ID 282658.

Sold by S. Simmons

  • Toplady, Augustus. The gleanings of the vintage, being several essays and meditations selected from the manuscripts of periodical papers, and written by the late Rev. Augustus Toplady, A. B. Vicar of Broad-Hembury. With a recommendatory preface by Henry Peckwell, D.D. Lincoln: printed and sold by S. Simmons, Dilly; Mathews, Strand; Vallance & Conder, Cheapside, London; and J. and J. Merrills, Cambridge, [1783?]. ESTC No. T124710. Grub Street ID 174887.