Publications of Rob: 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 Rob: Young

  • Woodall, John. The surgeons mate or Military & domestique surgery. Discouering faithfully & plainly ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, w[i]th ye exact cures of wounds made by gun-shott, and otherwise as namely: wounds, apos fumes, vlcers, fistula's, fractures, dislocations, w[i]th ye most easie & safest wayes of amputation or dismembring. The cures of the scuruey, of ye fluxes of ye belly, of ye collicke and iliaca passia, of tenasmus and exitus ani, and of the calenture, with A treatise of ye cure of ye plague. Published for the service of his Matie. and of the com:wealth. By John Woodall Mr. in chyrurgerie. London: printed by Rob: Young (, J. Legate? and E. Purslowe), for Nicholas Bourne, and are to be sold at his shop at the south entrance of the Royall Exchange, MDCXXXIX [1639]. ESTC No. S95910. Grub Street ID 153796.

Printed for Rob: Young

  • Bacon, Francis. Of the advancement and proficience of learning or the partitions of sciences ?x? bookes Written in Latin by the most eminent illustrious & famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron? of Verulam Vicont St Alban Counsilour of Estate and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Wats. Oxford: printed by Leon: Lichfield, printer to the University, for Rob: Young [London], & Ed: Forrest [Oxford], MDCXL. [1640]. ESTC No. S124504. Grub Street ID 143860.