Publications of Robert. and

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. and

  • Coote, Edmund. The English school-master, teaching all his scholars, of what age soever, the most easie, short, and perfect order of distinct reading and true writing our English-tongue, that hath ever yet been known or published by any. And further also, teacheth a direct course, how any unskilfull person may easily both understand any hard English words, which they shall in the scriptures, sermons, or els-where hear or read: and also be made able to use the same aptly themselves; and generally whatsoever is necessary to be known for the English speech: so that the which hath this book only, needeth to buy no other to make him fit from his letters unto the grammar-school, ... especially for those that are ignorant in the Latine tongue. In the next page the school-master hangeth forth his table to the view of all beholders, setting forth some of the chief commodities of his profession. Devised for thy sake that wantest any part of this skill, by Edward Coote Master of the Free-school in St. Edmonds B. London: printed by R[obert]. and W[illiam]. Leybourn, for the Company of Stationers, 1658. ESTC No. R171517. Grub Street ID 65726.