Publications of Robert Young

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 Young

  • Preston, John. The breast-plate of faith and love. A treatise, vvherein the ground and exercise of faith and love, as they are set upon Christ their object, and as they are expressed in good works, is explained. Delivered in 18. sermons upon three severall texts, by the late faithfull and worthy minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Majesty, master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne. Imprinted at London: by R[obert] Y[oung] for Nicholas Bourne, and are to be sold at the South entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1634. ESTC No. S115054. Grub Street ID 134750.