Publications of Robt. Sayer

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."

Sold by Robt. Sayer

  • Hollar, Wenceslaus. Theatrv mvliervm, sive, Varietas atq. differentia habituum foeminei sexus diuersorum Europae nationum hodierno tempore vulgo in vsu a Wenceslao Hollar, etc. London: Printed and sold by Robt. Sayer, [164-?]. ESTC No. R26065. Grub Street ID 109423.

Printed for Robt. Sayer

  • Armstrong, Mostyn John. A scotch atlas; or description of the kingdom of Scotland: divided into counties, with the subdivisions of sherifdoms; shewing their respective boundaries and extent, soil, produce, Mines, Minerals, Metals, their Trade and Manufactures; also their cities, chief towns, seaports, mountains, Rivers, Forests, Lochs &c. with the Principal Great and Bve Roads, Passes, Forts, and other Particulars. The Whole taken from Topographical Surveys, regulated by Astronomical Observations, by Mostyn John Armstrong, Geographer. Beautifully engraved on 30 copper plates by H: Ashby. Published as the Act directs 1. Octr. 1777. London: printed for Robt. Sayer, & John Bennett, Map & printsellers, No. 53, Fleet Street, [1777]. ESTC No. N46630. Grub Street ID 31449.