Publications of James Sammells

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 James Sammells

  • Parkinson, James. The villager's friend & physician; or, A familiar address on the preservation of health, And the removal of disease, on it's first appearance; supposed to be delivered by a village apothecary. With cursory observations. On the treatment of children, on sobriety, industry, &c. Intended for the promotion of domestic happiness. By James Parkinson. London: Printed by James Sammells, No. 14, George's Court, Clerkenwell; published by H.D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row, 1800. ESTC No. T57124. Grub Street ID 283477.