Publications of Robert Wyre

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 Wyre

  • Moulton, Thomas. This is the glasse of helth, a great treasure for pore men, necessary and nedefull for euery person to soke in, that wyll kepe theyr body from the sycnesses & dysseases. And it sheweth howe the planettes reygne euery houre of the daye & and the nyght, with the natures & exposycyons of [the] .vii. sygnes, deuyded by the .vii. monthes of the yere, and after foloweth of all [the] euyll & daungerrous dayes of the yere. And sheweth the remedyes, for dyuers infyrmytes & dyseases, [that] hurteth the body of man. [[London]: Imprynted by me Robert Wyre, dwellynge at the sygne of saynt Joh[a]n Euangelyst, in saynt Martyns parysshe besyde Charynge Crosee, [before 1536]]. ESTC No. S94242. Grub Street ID 152555.