Publications of Robert Sayer

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 Robert Sayer

  • Bowen, Emanuel. The large English atlas: or, a new set of maps of all the counties in England and Wales, drawn from the several surveys which have been hitherto published. ... By Emanuel Bowen, ... Thomas Kitchen, and others. London: printed and sold by Robert Sayer, [1760?]. ESTC No. N38245. Grub Street ID 26015.

Printed for Robert Sayer

  • Romans, Bernard. The compleat pilot for the gulf passage; or directions for sailing through the Gulf of Florida; or new Bahama channel, ... By Capt. Bernard Romans, Capt. W. Gerrard de Brahm, surveyor general for the Southern district of North America; Capt. Hester, Capt. Bishop, . London: printed for Robert Sayer and John Bennett, 1779. ESTC No. N52303. Grub Street ID 36284.