Publications of Samuel Keimer

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 Keimer

  • Braine, Benjamin. A determination of the case of Mr. Thomas Story and Mr. James Hoskins, relating to an affair of the Pennsylvania Company, &c. [Philadelphia?: Printed by Samuel Keimer?, 1724?]. ESTC No. W28452. Grub Street ID 338625.
  • Mather, Cotton. Vital Christianity: A brief essay on the life of God, in the soul of man; produced and maintained by a Christ living in us: and the mystery of a Christ within, explained. With an exhibition, in which all that fear God and give glory to him, will be sanctified. [Three lines from Isaiah]. [Philadelphia]: Printed by Samuel Keimer, for Eleazer Phillips, in Charles-Town in New-England, and sold at Rice Peter's, in Chesnut-Street, Philadelphia, 1725. ESTC No. W19575. Grub Street ID 329222.

Sold by Samuel Keimer

  • Leeds, Titan. Leeds 1727. The American almanack for the year of Christian account, 1727. ... Fitted to the latitude of 40 degrees, and a meridian of five hours west from London, but may without sensible error, serve all the adjacent places, even from New-found-land to Carolina. By Titan Leeds, philomat. [Philadelphia]: Printed and sold by Samuel Keimer, in the Second Street near the market, in Philadelphia: David Humphreys at Flushing on Long-Island, and Eliezar Phillips at Charles-town, in New-England, [1726]. ESTC No. W22656. Grub Street ID 332505.

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

  • Sewel, William. The history of the rise, increase, and progress, of the Christian people called Quakers: intermixed with several remarkable occurrences. Written originally in Low-Dutch, and also translated into English, by William Sewel. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Samuel Keimer in Second Street, MDCCXXVIII. [1728]. ESTC No. W12748. Grub Street ID 322038.