Publications of Robert Foulis

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 Foulis

  • Rowe, Nicholas. The tragedy of Jane Shore, written by Nicholas Rowe, Esq;. Glasgow: printed and sold by Robert Foulis, 1748. ESTC No. T51532. Grub Street ID 278760.

Sold by Robert Foulis

  • The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; ... Glasgow: printed and sold by Robert Foulis, 1747-49. ESTC No. N19115. Grub Street ID 8541.

Printed for Robert Foulis

  • Leechman, William. The temper, character, and duty of a minister of the gospel. A sermon preached before the Synod of Glalgow [sic] and Air; at Glasgow, April 7th, 1741. By William Leechman ... Glasgow: printed for Robert Foulis, and sold by him and the booksellers in Edinburgh and Glasgow, [1741?]. ESTC No. T14053. Grub Street ID 188227.