Publications of R. Drummond

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 R. Drummond

  • Bisset, William. Plain English. A sermon preached at St. Mary-le-Bow, on Monday, March 27. 1704. for reformation of manners, with some enlargements. By William Bisset, One of the Ministers of St. Catharine's by the Tower. Edinburgh: printed by R. Drummond, in Swan-Close, and sold by Gideon Crawford, Bookseller, at his Shop in the Parliament Close, MDCCXLVI. [1746]. ESTC No. N11583. Grub Street ID 1585.

Sold by R. Drummond

  • Whitefield, George. The amazing love of Christ. A sermon preached in the Gorbels Church of Glasgow, September 3d, 1742. By the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield, ... Edinburgh: printed and sold by R. Drummond and Company. And by Robert Smith in Glasgow, 1742. ESTC No. T162319. Grub Street ID 201137.