Publications of Robert Barker

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 Robert Barker

  • England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I).. Orders appointed by His Majestie (king Charles I.) to be straitly observed, for the preventing and remedying of the dearth of graine and victuall: with His Majesties proclamation, declaring his royall pleasure and further Commandement therein. London]: Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie: and by the assignes of John Bill. M.DC.XXX. Reprinted at London for Thomas Payne in Castle-Street, next the Mews Upper Gate, Charing-Cross, MDCCLVIII. [1758. ESTC No. N41626. Grub Street ID 27976.

Author

  • Barker, Robert. An account of the Bramins Observatory at Benares. By Sir Robert Barker, Knt. F. R. S. Read at the Royal Society, May 29, 1777. London: printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, MDCCLXXVII. [1777]. ESTC No. T78002. Grub Street ID 299912.