Publications of Abel Morse

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 Abel Morse

  • Williams, Nathan. No cause nor need of pain in heaven, illustrated in a sermon preached at the funeral of Eliakim Hall, Esq. of Wallingford: who departed this life April 19th A.D. 1794 in the 83d. year of his age. By Nathan Williams, A.M. Pastor of the church in Tolland. [Two lines from Genesis]. New-Haven: Printed by Abel Morse, M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]. ESTC No. W13861. Grub Street ID 323224.

Sold by Abel Morse

  • Berquin, M. Arnaud. The honest farmer. A drama, in five acts. By M. Berquin, author of The children's friend. [Four lines of verse]. New-Haven: Printed and sold by Abel Morse, M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]. ESTC No. W19123. Grub Street ID 328771.

Printed for Abel Morse

  • Boudier de Villemert, P.-J. The ladies friend; being a treatise on the virtues and qualifications which are the brightest ornaments of the fair sex, and render them most agreeable to the sensible part of mankind. New-Haven: Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, for Abel Morse, MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]. ESTC No. W19376. Grub Street ID 329031.