Publications of Robert Aitken

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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:

"printed by x"; or
"sold by x"; or
"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,":

"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.

Printed by Robert Aitken

Pelosi's marine list and price current. Philadelphia [Pa.]: Printed by R. Aitken & Son for the proprietor. ESTC No. P5496. Grub Street ID 57315.
Paine, Robert Treat. The art of making common salt. Particularly adapted to the use of the American colonies. With an extract from Dr. Brownrigg's treatise on the art of making bay-salt. Detached from the Pennsylvania magazine for March 1776. Philadelphia: Printed by R. Aitken, printer and bookseller, opposite the London Coffee-House, Front-Street, M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]. ESTC No. W11472. Grub Street ID 320669.
McNutt, Alexander. Considerations on the sovereignty, independence, trade and fisheries of New-Ireland, (formerly known by the name of Nova-Scotia) and the adjacent islands: submitted to the European powers, that may be engaged in settling the terms of peace, among the nations at war. [Philadelphia?]: Published by order of the freemen of the sovereign, free and independent commonwealth of New-Ireland. [Printed by Robert Aitken?], [1781?]. ESTC No. W11384. Grub Street ID 320575.
Pelosi, Vincent M. Philadelphia October [blank] 1791. Sir, At the request of several merchants of the United States, I have undertaken a weekly marine list of all the ports of the union, together with a price current. [Philadelphia: Printed by Robert Aitkin & Son, 1791]. ESTC No. W34293. Grub Street ID 344913.
Barton, Benjamin Smith. An account of the most effectual means of preventing the deleterious consequences of the bite of the Crotalus horridus, or rattle-snake. By Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D. Professor of natural history and botany in the University of Pennsylvania, &c. &c. Extracted from the third volume of the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. Philadelphia: Printed by Robert Aitken & Son, Market-Street, M,DCC,XCII. [1792]. ESTC No. W1567. Grub Street ID 325145.

Sold by Robert Aitken

Watts, Isaac. Horae lyricae. Poems chiefly of the lyric kind. In three books. Sacred I. To devotion and piety. II. To virtue, honour, and friendship. III. To the memory of the dead. By I. Watts, D.D. [Three lines from Horace]. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by R. Aitken, at Pope's Head, three doors above the Coffee House, Market Street, M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]. ESTC No. W12779. Grub Street ID 322072.
A Companion for the counting house, or Duties payable on goods imported into America, together with the tonnage on vessels, coins of the United States, fees and mode of transacting business at the respective offices. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by R. Aitken & Son, in Market Street, M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]. ESTC No. W10006. Grub Street ID 319101.
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. Volume III. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Robert Aitken & Son, no. 22; Market Street, M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]. ESTC No. W15745. Grub Street ID 325223.

Printed for Robert Aitken

Watts, Isaac. Divine songs. Attempted in easy language for the use of children. By I. Watts, D.D. [Two lines from Matthew]. Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Crukshank, for R. Aitken, Bookseller, opposite the London Coffee-House, in Front-Street, [1773?]. ESTC No. W25134. Grub Street ID 335090.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by Robert Aitken

The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: newly translated out of the original Greek; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. Appointed to be read in churches. Philadelphia.: Printed and sold by R. Aitken. Printer & bookseller, Front Street, 1777. Spectamur agendo. ESTC No. W4695. Grub Street ID 353637.
A view of the debts and expences of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and of the funds and revenues of the same, December 1786. [Philadelphia]: (Printed and sold by R. Aitken.), [1786]. ESTC No. W27404. Grub Street ID 337500.
Blair, Robert. The grave. A poem. By Robert Blair. To which is added An elegy, written in a country church yard. By Mr. Gray. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Robert Aitken, at Pope's Head, in Market Street, M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]. ESTC No. W10254. Grub Street ID 319366.
Aesop. Fables of Aesop and others, translated into English, with instructive applications; and a print before each fable. By Samuel Croxall, D.D: late Archdeacon of Hereford. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by R Aitken & Son, at no. 22 Market Street, M.DCC.XCII. [1792]. ESTC No. W6766. Grub Street ID 355812.

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