Publications of Robert Willock

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."

Sold by Robert Willock

  • The choice: being a collection Of Two Hundred and Fifty Celebrated Songs. London: printed by J. Watson, over-against Hungerford-Market in the Strand, and sold by R. King at the Prince's Arms, and T. Astley at the Rose, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and by R. Willock [at] Sir Isaac Newton's Head in Cornhill, 1729. ESTC No. T59140. Grub Street ID 285162.

Printed for Robert Willock

  • The choice: being a collection of two hundred and fifty celebrated songs, vol. I. Number 1, 2, 3. London: Printed for Weaver Bickerton, Thomas Astley, Stephen Austen, and Robert Willock, 1733. ESTC No. T187964. Grub Street ID 223819.
  • The West-India monthly packet of intelligence: or, An account of news foreign and domestic, extracted from the best authorities. London: printed for Robert Willock, bookseller, at Sir Isaac Newton's Head in Cornhill, [1745-1755]. ESTC No. P2176. Grub Street ID 55888.
  • S., M.. Pharmacop.ia reformata: or, an essay for a reformation of the London Pharmacop.ia, by a set of remarks on the draught for a new one, ... Interspersed with observations on some of the most celebrated modern dispensatories, ... The second edition. To which are added, remar on the plan of a new London pharmacop.ia, . London: printed for R. Willock, 1745. ESTC No. N11361. Grub Street ID 1361.
  • A new plan of the city of Bergen-op-Zoom: with the forts upon the lines, as besieged by the French, the 16th of July, 1747. (Drawn upon the spot). London: printed for R. Willock. August 28, 1747. ESTC No. T213737. Grub Street ID 240425.
  • Lewis, William. Proposals for printing, by subscription, Commercium philosophico-technicum: or the philosophical commerce of arts. Designed as an Attempt to advance Useful Knowledge. Fiat Experimentum. Verulam. By W. Lewis, M. B. Fellow of the Royal Society. London: Robert Willock, bookseller, in Cornhill, 1748. ESTC No. T126160. Grub Street ID 176192.
  • The West-India and America monthly packet of intelligence: or, An account of news foreign and domestic, extracted from the best authorities. London [England]: printed for Robert Willock, bookseller, at Sir Isaac Newton's Head in Cornhill, [1755-1762]. ESTC No. P6712. Grub Street ID 359251.
  • Guy, Richard. The answer of Richard Guy, surgeon, in Mark-Lane, to certain invidious falshoods and reflections upon his method of curing cancers without cutting, lately published in an introduction to the Essays, &c. of Thomas Gataker, Surgeon Extraordinary to His Majesty, &c. &c. Proper for the perusal of all those, who are, in any degree, afflicted with cancers. London: printed for R. Willock, in Cornhill; W. Bristow, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and all other booksellers in London and Westminster, M,DCC,LXIV. [1764]. ESTC No. N5326. Grub Street ID 37199.

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

  • Haywood, Eliza. Love-Letters on all occasions lately passed between persons of distinction. Collected by Mrs. Eliza Haywood. London: printed for and sold by John Brindley, at the Kings Arms in New Bond-Street; Robert Willock in Cornhill; John Jackson in Pall-Mall; John Penn in Westminster-Hall; Francis Cogan at the Middle Temple Gate, Fleetstreet, 1730. ESTC No. T75394. Grub Street ID 298120.