Publications of Samuel Kneeland

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 Samuel Kneeland

  • In the House of Representatives, March 23d. 1759. Voted, that the following establishment be made for the officers &c. that may be employed in the intended expedition against Canada, viz. ... [Boston: Printed by Samuel Kneeland, 1759]. ESTC No. W1249. Grub Street ID 321763.

Sold by Samuel Kneeland

  • Tryals of thirty-six persons for piracy, twenty-eight of them upon full evidence were found guilty, and the rest acquitted. At a Court of Admiralty for tryal of pirates, held at Newport within His Majesties Colony of Rhode-island and Providence-Plantations in America, on the tenth, eleventh and twelfth days of July, anno Dom. 1723. Pursuant to His Majesties commission, founded on an act of Parliament, made in the eleventh & twelfth years of King William the Third, entituled, An act for the more effectual suppression of piracy. And made perpetual by an act of the sixth of King George. Boston: Printed and sold by Samuel Kneeland, in Queen-Street, below the prison, 1723. ESTC No. W17559. Grub Street ID 327106.

Printed for Samuel Kneeland

  • Mather, Cotton. A voice from heaven. An account of a late uncommon appearance in the heavens. With remarks upon it. Written for the satisfaction of one that was desirous to know the meaning of it. By one of the many who observed it. [Two lines of quotation in Latin]. Boston: in N.E.: Printed for Samuel Kneeland, at his shop in King-Street, 1719. ESTC No. W19635. Grub Street ID 329286.