Publications of Samuel Baker

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 Baker

  • Galilei, Galileo. Mathematical discourses concerning two new sciences relating to mechanicks and local motion, in four dialogues. I. Of the Resistance of Solids against Fraction. II. Of the Cause of their Coherence. III. Of Local Motion, viz. Equable, and naturally Accelerate. IV. Of Violent Motion, or of Projects. By Galileo Galilei, Chief Philosopher and Mathematician to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. With an appendix concerning the center of gravity of solid bodies. Done into English from the Italian, by Tho. Weston, late Master, and now publish'd by John Weston, present Master, of the Academy at Greenwich. The second edition.. London: printed for Samuel Baker, at the Angel and Crown in Russel Street, Covent-Garden, M.DCC.XXXIV. [1734]. ESTC No. T119010. Grub Street ID 170491.
  • Haywood, Eliza. Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo. A pre-adamitical history. Interspersed with a great number of remarkable occurrences, which happened, and may again happen, to several Empires, Kingdoms, Republicks, and particular Great Men. With some Account of the Religion, Laws, Customs, and Policies of those Times. Written originally in the language of nature, (of later Years but little understood.) First translated into Chinese, at the command of the Emperor, by a Cabal of Seventy Philosophers; and now retranslated into English, by the son of a mandarin, residing in London. London: printed for S. Baker, at the Angel and Crown in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736]. ESTC No. T57423. Grub Street ID 283696.
  • Duverney. A treatise of the organ of hearing: containing the structure, the uses, and the diseases of all the parts of the ear. Translated from the French of the late Monsieur Du Verney, Of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Counsellor Physician in Ordinary to the late King of France, And Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the Royal Physick-Garden at Paris. Adorn'd with sixteen curious copper-plates. London: printed for Samuel Baker, at the Angel and Crown in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, MDCCXXXVII. [1737]. ESTC No. T61558. Grub Street ID 287254.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by Samuel Baker

  • Catherwood, John. A new method of curing the apoplexy. With an appendix, containing some observations upon the use and abuse of physick. With a letter to Dr. Slare concerning the Bezoar-Stone. By John Catherwood, M.D. London: printed, and sold by Samuel Baker, Bookseller, at the Angel and Crown in Russel-Street near Covent-Garden, [1715?]. ESTC No. N10094. Grub Street ID 105.