Publications of R. K.

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. K.

  • Kettlewell, John. A companion for the penitent & persecuted: consisting of directions and devotions for persons troubled in mind, and those who suffer for righteousness, &c. By John Kettlewell, late vicar of Coles-Hill in Warwickshire. London: printed for R. K. and are to be sold by Sam. Keble, at the Turks Head in Fleet-street, 1696. ESTC No. R217160. Grub Street ID 91980.

Author

  • K., R.. [L]illies light [for] the helpe of young schollers. R.K. Imprinted at London: by Thomas Dawson dwelling at the three Cranes in the Vintree, 1599. ESTC No. S123829. Grub Street ID 143281.
  • K., R.. Observations on the use of spectacles, extracted from the writings of the most celebrated authors who have wrote on opticks. Wherein Are contained Rules for chusing of Spectacles and Glasses, proper for remedying all the different Defects of Sight. In a letter to a friend. London: printed for P. Stevens, near Stationers-Hall; R. Baldwin, in Pater-Noster-Row; J. Jefferies, in Ludgate-Street; B. Bourn, at the Royal-Exchange; G. Woodfall, at Charing-Cross; R. Williamson, at Liverpool; J. Berry, at Manchester; W. Eaton, at Yarmouth; J. Teast, at Bristol; J. Lord, at Wakefield; S. Simmonds, at Sheffield; Messrs Kincaid and Donaldson, at Edinburgh and J. Smith, at Dublin, [1753]. ESTC No. N12533. Grub Street ID 2532.