Publications of James Roberts

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 James Roberts

  • Annesley, James. The trial at large, between James Annesley, Esq; and the Right Honourable the Earl of Anglesea, before the Barons of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland: begun on Friday, November 11, 1743; and, by adjournments, continued until the 25th of the same month inclusive. Containing the pleadings at large of the council on both sides; with the learned speech of Prime Serjt Malone. The whole taken in court, and carefully revised by an eminent counsellor concerned in the cause. London: printed by James Roberts, near Temple-Bar, MDCCXLIV. [1744]. ESTC No. N13751. Grub Street ID 3650.
  • England's black tribunal. Containing, I. The compleat tryal of King Charles the first, by the pretended High Court of Justice in Westminster-Hall, begun January 20, 1648. Together with His Majesty's Speech on the Scaffold, erected at Whitehall-Gate, on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 1648. II. The loyal martyrology: Or, A perfect Relation of the Sufferings and Death of the Nobility, Gentry, and others, who were inhumanly sacrific'd for their Loyalty to their Sovereigns King Charles I. and II. Together with their several Dying Speeches. III. An historical register of the Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen, who were slain in defence of their King and country, during the Unnatural Rebellion, begun in 1641. IV. The loyal confessors: In a brief Account of the most eminent Sufferers, by Imprisonment, Banishment, or in Estate, for the Cause of His Sacred Majesty. The seventh edition, very much enlarged. To which is added, an historical preface, by a true churchman. London: printed by James Roberts, near Temple-Bar, MDCCXLIV. [1744]. ESTC No. N9226. Grub Street ID 54102.