Publications of Thomas Robins

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 Thomas Robins

  • Mum. An excellent new ballad. To its own proper Tune. London: printed for Thomas Robins in Fleetstreet, MDCCXL. [1740]. ESTC No. T170690. Grub Street ID 208367.

Author

  • Robins, Thomas. The whole tryal and indictment of Sir John Barley-Corn, Knight. A Person of Noble Birth and Extraction, and well known to be both Rich and Poor throughout the Kingdom of Great-Britain: Being accused for several Misdemeanours by him committed against Her Majesty's Liege-People; by Killing some, Wounding others, and bringing Thousands to Beggary, to the Ruin of many a good Family. Here you have the Substance of the Evidence given in against him on his Tryal, with the Names of the Judges, Jury, and Witnesses: Also, the Comical Defence Sir John makes for himself, and the good Character given him by some of his Neighbours; namely, Hewson the Cobler, an honest Friend to Sir John, who is Entom'd as a Memorandum at the Two-Brewers in East-Smithfield. Taken in short-hand by Timothy Toss-Pot, foreman of the jury. London: printed for J. Dutton, near Fleetstreet, 1709. ESTC No. T52473. Grub Street ID 279553.