Publications of Somerset Draper

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 Somerset Draper

  • Mawson, Matthias. A sermon preach'd before the Right Honorable the Lord-Mayor, the court of aldermen, and sheriffs, and the governors of the several hospitals within the City of London: in the parish-church of St. Bridget, on Monday in Easter-Week, 1741. By Matthias Lord Bishop of Chichester. London: printed for Somerset Draper: and sold by J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, 1741. ESTC No. N23574. Grub Street ID 12929.
  • Mawson, Matthias. A sermon preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; at their anniversary meeting in the parish-church of St. Mary-le-Bow, on Friday, February 18, 1742-3. By Matthias Lord Bishop of Chichester. London: printed for Somerset Draper; and sold by J. Roberts, 1743. ESTC No. N23707. Grub Street ID 13064.
  • Ovid. Ovid's art of love, in three books. Together with his Remedy of love. Translated into English verse by several eminent hands. To which are added, The court of love: a tale from Chaucer: and The history of love. Adorn'd with cuts. London: printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1747. ESTC No. N11337. Grub Street ID 1336.
  • Ovid. Ovid's art of love, in three books. Together with his remedy of love. Translated into English verse by several eminent hands. To which are added, the court of love: a tale from Chancer: and the history of love. Adorn'd with cuts. London: printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, MDCCXLVII. [1748]. ESTC No. T84340. Grub Street ID 304717.