Publications of Mr. Robinson

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."

Sold by Mr. Robinson

  • Povey, Charles. The visions of Sir Heister Ryley: with other entertainments. Consisting of two hundred discourses and letters representing, by way of image and description, the characters of vertue, beauty, affectation, love and passion; the agreeableness of wit, truth and honour, made conspicuous by morals. As also scenes of the birth of nature, the sudden turns of fortune, the madness of domestick contests, the humours of the town, and the false arts of life, both of human and irrational beings, trac'd thro' all their intricate mazes. London: Printed for the author, and sold by Mrs. Sympson at the Antilope in King-street, Westminster, mercer; Mr. Seddon at the Spring-Clock, Pall-Mall, near St. James's Palace; Mr. Robinson a toy-shop at the Golden Perriwig, Charing-Cross; Mrs. Cary at the Lamb, Russel-street, Covent-Garden, hosier; Mr. Heaton a slop-shop next door to the Crown in White-Lion-Street, near the Seven Dials; Mr. Carter a cabinet-maker at the corner of New Turn-Stile, Holbourn; Mr. Haselfoot the corner of Foster-Lane, Cheapside, mercer; Mr. Cole hosier at the Black Lion over against the Royal-Exchange, Cornhill; Mr. Smith millener right against St. Botolph's Church, Bishopsgate; Mr. Walpool at the Unicorn in the Minories near Aldgate, stationer; Mr. Walker stationer near the May-Pole, East-Smithfield; Mr. Lacy at the Golden Lion in the borough of Southwark, stationer, and Mr. Bowden a toy-shop the first house in Chancery-Lane next Fleet-street, [1711]. ESTC No. T177355. Grub Street ID 214302.
  • The visions of Sir Heister Ryley: with other entertainments. Two hundred discourses and letters representing, by way of image and description, the characters of vertue, beauty, affectation, love and passion; the agreeableness of wit, truth and honour, made conspicuous by morals. As also scenes of the birth of nature, the sudden turns of fortune, the madness of domestick contests, the humours of the town, and the false arts of life, both of human and irrational beings, trac'd thro' all their intricate mazes. London [England]: printed for the author, and sold by Mrs. Sympson at the Antilope in King-street, Westminster, mercer; Mr. Seddon at the Spring-Clock, Pall-Mall, near St. James's Palace; Mr. Robinson a toy-shop at the Golden Perriwig, Charing-Cross; Mrs Cary at the Lamb, Russel-street, Covent-Garden, Hosier; Mr. Heaton next door to the Crown in White-Lion-Street, near the Seven Dials; [and 8 others in London], [1711]. ESTC No. P1995. Grub Street ID 55718.