Publications of Robert Turner

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 Robert Turner

  • Aitken, James. A genuine account of the life, transactions, confession, and execution, of James Aitken, alias John Hill, commonly called John the Painter, who was tried at the Castle of Winchester, on Thursday, the 7th of March, 1777, and convicted of setting fire to his Majesty's Dock-Yard at Portsmouth. The whole faithfully taken down from the convict's own mouth, on the three days preceding his execution. London: printed for Robert Turner in the year, 1777. ESTC No. N68592. Grub Street ID 49938.

Author

  • Turner, Robert. Electricology: or, a discourse upon electricity. Being an enquiry into the nature; causes; properties; and effects thereof, upon the principles of the æther. ... By R. Turner. Worcester: printed for the author, by Thomas Olivers; and sold by S. Austen, and J. Hodges, London; T. Warren in Birmingham; and the aforesaid T. Olivers, 1746. ESTC No. T94660. Grub Street ID 314226.