Publications of Robert Urie.

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 Urie.

  • Witherspoon, John. Seasonable advice to young persons: a sermon on Psalm i. 1. preached in the Laigh Church of Paisley, on ... Feb. 21st, 1762. To which is prefixed, an authentic narrative of the disorderly and riotous meeting, on the night before the celebration of the Lord's Supper in that place, ... By John Witherspoon, ... Glasgow: printed by Robert Urie. Sold by Daniel Baxter, and John Barry, in Glasgow; G. Hamilton & J. Balfour; A. Kincaid & J. Bell; and W. Gray, junior, in Edinburgh; [and 1 in Stirling, 1 in Perth, 1 in Dundee, 1 in Kilmarnock, 2 in Dumfries, 1 in Greenock and 1 in Ayr], 1762. ESTC No. N21457. Grub Street ID 10834.

Printed for Robert Urie.

  • Thom, William. An enquiry into the causes of the decline of religion. A sermon preached in the High-Church of Glasgow, April 14th, 1761. At the opening of the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr. By William Thom, A.M. Minister of Govan. Published at the Desire of the Synod. Glasgow: printed for Robert Urie. Sold by John Barry, at his Shop above the Cross, MDCCLXI. [1761]. ESTC No. N6549. Grub Street ID 47361.