Publications of Robert Wood

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 Wood

  • A perfect diurnall of passages in Parliament. Wherein is communicated the chiefest intelligence from his Excellencie, the Lord Gen. Fairfax, and his army; the daily proceedings of the Lord Governour of Ireland: and remarkable passages from severall parts of England, &c. [London, England]: Printed by Robert Wood, (at the earnest request of divers well-affected persons) for the benefit of the Common-Wealth, [1649]. ESTC No. P1096. Grub Street ID 54966.

Printed for Robert Wood

  • Jordan, Thomas. Rules to know a royall king, from a disloyall subject. With an exact account given of the jewels of the crowne of England. Whereunto is added, a touch-stone for a traitor. VVritten by the Kings friend, and a lover of the Common-wealth, Tho: Jordan. London: printed for Robert Wood and Edward Christopher, 1642. ESTC No. R5500. Grub Street ID 125937.