Publications of Samuel Longcope

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 Longcope

  • A charge delivered to the grand jury of Wayne County, by Samuel Preston, Esq. first associate judge of said county. Easton [Pa.]: Printed by Samuel Longcope, MDCCC. [1800]. ESTC No. W38466. Grub Street ID 349297.

Printed for Samuel Longcope

  • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Eloisa: or A series of original letters, collected and published by J.J. Rousseau, citizen of Geneva. Translated from the French. Together with, the sequel of Julia; or, The new Eloisa. (Found amongst the author's papers after his decease.) Vol. I[-III]. Philadelphia: Printed for Samuel Longcope, M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]. ESTC No. W31869. Grub Street ID 342311.