Publications of R. 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 for R. Sayer

  • Officer on the Spot.. A plan of the battle, on Bunkers Hill. Fought on the 17th. of June 1775. By an officer on the spot. London: printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett no. 53 in Fleet street as the act directs 27 Novr., 1775. ESTC No. N11757. Grub Street ID 1758.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by R. Sayer

  • Kitchin, Thomas. A general atlas, describing the whole universe. Being a compleat and new collection of the most approved maps extant; ... the whole being an improvement of the maps of D'Anville and Robert. Engraved in the best manner on sixty-two copper plates, by Thomas Kitchen, senior . London: printed and sold by R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 1777. ESTC No. N18470. Grub Street ID 7943.