Publications of Robert Young

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 Robert Young

  • Randall, John. St. Pauls triumph, Or, Cygnea illa & dulcissima cantio: that swan-like and most sweet song of that learned and faithfull servant of God, Master John Randall, Batchelour of Divinity. Uttered by him (in eleven sermons upon the eight chapter of S. Paul his Epistle to the Romanes verse 38,39.) lately before his death in the time of his great and heavy affliction, and upon the Communion dayes, either altogether, or for the most part. With an exact table at the end of the booke, shewing and directing to the maine and choyce things handled in this treatise. By William Holbrooke, preacher of the Word of God. London: Printed [by Robert Young] for Robert Young, and Samuel Enderby, at the signe of the Starre in Popes-head Alley, 1640. ESTC No. S115643. Grub Street ID 135334.