Publications of Humph. Robertson

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 Humph. Robertson

  • Robertson, William, Master of Arts. Shaʻar Ha Shini ʼo Petach Taphnimu ʼel LeShon HaKodesh The second gate, or The inner door to the holy tongue. Being a compendious Hebrew lexicon or dictionary; in which all the roots and primitive words in the Bible, both Hebrew and Chaldee, are orderly set down, and numbred, and their significations expressed, in each several conjugation, wherein they are found extant in the Bible; with all the derivative nouns, and their significations taken from the roots; together with so much praxis, or so many places of the Hebrew text, so easily resolved in English, and with such easie directions for learning the language, as that any knowing Christian, man or woman, of ordinary capacity, making use of the former grammar, and this dictionary, with the praxis joined to both, may learn to read and understand the Hebrew Bible; and that without a teacher. See wha is in the book more fully in the following page. By William Robertson, Master of Arts, from the University at Edenburgh, and now residing at London. London: printed by Evan Tyler, for Humph. Robertson, at the three Pigeons in St. Pauls Church-yard, and for G. Sabridge at the Bible on Ludgate hill; at whose shops the books are to be sold, and any may know where the author himself stayeth, [1655]. ESTC No. R236821. Grub Street ID 107473.