Publications of Robert Powlet

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 for Robert Powlet

  • Walker, William. The royal grammar, commonly called Lylly's grammar, explained. In those rules of it, which concern the genders, and irregular declinings of nouns; and the preterperfect tenses, and supines of verbs; ordinarily called, propria quæ maribus; quæ genus; and as in præsenti. B way of question and answer, opening the meanings of the rules with great plainness, to the understanding of children of meanest capacity. With choice critical observations on the same, from the best extant authors and grammarians; for the amending of the mistakes, and supplying the defects thereof By William Walker, B.D. author of the Treatise of the English particles. The second edition.. London: printed for Robert Powlet at the sign of the Bible in Chancery-Lane neat Fleet-street, and Edward Pawlet bookseller in Grantham, 1674. ESTC No. R232332. Grub Street ID 104151.