Publications of Robertson and

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 by Robertson and

  • Barlow, Joel. A letter addressed to the people of Piedmont, on the advantages of the French Revolution, and the necessity of adopting its principles in Italy. By Joel Barlow. Translated from the French by the author. New-York: Printed at the Columbian Press, by Robertson and Gowan, for J. Fellows, bookseller, Water-Street, 1795. ESTC No. W18500. Grub Street ID 328109.

Printed for Robertson and

  • Callender, James Thomson. The political progress of Britain; or, an impartial account of the principal abuses in the government of this country, from the revolution in 1688. The Whole tending to prove the ruinous Consequences of the popular System of War and Conquest. Part first. Edinburgh: printed for Robertson and Berry, No. 39, South-Bridge; and T. Kay, No. 332, Strand, London, [1792]. ESTC No. N40000. Grub Street ID 27185.