Publications of R. Walker

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. Walker

  • The lover's miscellany. Being a curious collection of amorous tales and poems. Together with some faithful memoirs of the life and amours of the late celebrated Mrs. Ann Oldfield. London: printed by R. Walker, for the author, and sold by the Booksellers in Town and Country, MDCCXXXI [1731]. ESTC No. N10755. Grub Street ID 761.

Printed for R. Walker

  • Tell-Truth, Tom. A letter to a Member of Parliament in the North: containing remarks on the advertisement mentioned in the Craftsman of Saturday, November 8. about a memorandum book that was taken up near Arlington-Street. Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Lord Townly. The second edition.. London: printed for R. Walker, at the White-Hart, without Temple-Bar; and sold by all book-sellers and pamphlet-sellers, [1729?]. ESTC No. N19544. Grub Street ID 8964.