Publications of R. Phillips

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 R. Phillips

  • Cumberland, Richard. A treatise of the laws of nature. By the Right Reverend ... Richard Cumberland, Lord Bishop of Peterborough. Made English from the Latin by John Maxwell, ... To which is prefix'd, an introduction . London: printed by R. Phillips; and sold by J. Knapton, J. Senex, F. Fayram, J. Osborne, and T. Longman and T. Osborne, 1727. ESTC No. T97625. Grub Street ID 317019.
  • Bouhours, Dominique. Ingenious thoughts of the Fathers of the Church. Collected by Bohours in French. Translated into English. London: printed by R. Phillips: and sold by F. Fayram, at the South-Entrance of the Royal-Exchange; J. Crokatt, T. Worrall, both against St. Dunstan's-Church, Fleetstreet; T. Combes, in Pater-Noster-Row; J. Clark, in Duck-Lane; and O. Payne in Round-Court in the Strand, 1727. ESTC No. T117730. Grub Street ID 169316.
  • Hall, Jacob, marshal of the Middlesex Trained Bands. The marshal's humble offering to each gentleman soldier, in the Company commanded by Lieut. Col. Ellis, Esq; lieut. col. in the Blue regiment of Middlesex, whereof the Hon. Sir Thomas Medlicott, Kt. is Colonel. London: printed by R. Phillips in Tart's-Court, West-Smithfield, [1730?]. ESTC No. T114502. Grub Street ID 166305.
  • Rigby, John. Insolence rebuk'd: Or, An answer to a letter on the subject of infallibility, from a scurrilous popish parishioner: in which answer, the most popular pleas of Romish seducers are detected and exposed. By John Rigby, M.A. rector of Coningsholme in the county of Lincoln, master of the Free-School of Boston, and chaplain to the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Peterborough. London: Printed by R. Phillips, and sold by A. Bettesworth, and C. Hitch, at the Red-Lyon in Pater-Noster-Row; W. Wells and S. Wilmot in Oxford; C. Cronfield in Cambridge; T. Ferrour and W. Garratt in Boston, 1731. ESTC No. N17196. Grub Street ID 6666.