Publications of Samuel Hill

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 Hill

  • England and Wales.. An abstract of the Acts of Parliament. For officers and soldiers to set up and follow trades: and for the payment of their arrears, &c. As also that for the branding felons in the left cheek. And for making Billingsgate a free market for fish. And that for raising the militia of this kingdom. As also, the Act to prohibit the exportation of wooll into foreign parts; and encouragement of the wollen-manufacturers. The said Acts being made by the honourable Parliament of England, in the eleventh year of the reign of our Soveraign Lord King William the Third, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith. Published for the better direction of such as shall endeavour the due execution thereof. London: printed for Samuel Hill, in Fleet-street, 1699. ESTC No. R171950. Grub Street ID 65992.