Publications of Barker Robert

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 Barker Robert

  • By the King. To our trusty and welbeloved high shieriffe of our county of Yorke. Trusty and wel-beloved, wee greet you well: whereas wee understand that Sir Iohn Hotham takes upon him (without any legall authority or power) to issue warrants to constables, and other our officers, to raise diverse of our trained bands of this our county, and requires them to march with their arms, and to come into our tow of Hull, ... [London]: Printed at Yorke by Barker Robert and now re-printed at London for J. W[right], I[unior]. in the Old-baily, 1642. ESTC No. R173730. Grub Street ID 67118.