Publications of Ia. 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 Ia. Roberts

  • Harsnett, Samuel. A declaration of egregious popish impostures, to with-draw the harts of his Maiesties subiects from their allegeance, and from the truth of Christian religion professed in England, vnder the pretence of casting out of deuils. Practised by Edmunds, alias VVeston a Iesuit, & diuers Romish priestes his vvicked associates. Where-vnto are annexed the copies of the confessions, & examinations of the parties themselues, which were pretended to be possessed, and dispossessed: taken vppon oath before his Maiesties commissioners, for causes ecclesiasticall. At London: Newly printed by Ia. Roberts, dwelling in Barbican, 1605. ESTC No. S116909. Grub Street ID 136597.