Publications of Robert Brown:

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 Brown:

  • The compleat psalmodist: or the organist's, parish-clerk's and psalm-singer's companion. Containing I. A new and compleat introduction to the grounds of music, both Theoretical and Practical, ... Also the Art of Composition, made easy by plain and practical Rules, ... To which is added a new musical Dictionary, properly digested in alphabetical Order, explaining, almost to the meanest Capacity, all such Terms and Characters as generally occur in Music, derived from various Languages. II. A set of services, commonly called Chanting-Tunes; ... III. A set of grave and solemn psalm-tunes, both ancient and modern, containing near one Hundred different Tunes, ... with a great many new Tunes, composed by some of the most eminent Masters that ever existed. IV. A set of divine hymns, suited to the Feasts and Fasts of the Church of England; with several Canons of two, three, and four Parts in one. The Whole composed, according to the most authentic Rules, for one, two, three, four, and five Voices,. London: printed by Robert Brown, in Windmill-Court, near West-Smithfield: and sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes, at the Red-Lion, J. Buckland, at the Buck, and S. Crowder and Co. at the Looking-Glass, all in Pater-Noster-Row, [1761]. ESTC No. T161247. Grub Street ID 200385.