Publications of R. Walker

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 R. Walker

  • Shakespeare, William. The dramatick works of William Shakespear. ... . Containing the Six following Plays, viz. I. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, a Tragedy. II. Julius Caesar, a Tragedy. III. The Life and Death of King Richard III. with the Landing of the Earl of Richmond, and the Battle at Bosworth-Field, being the Last between The Houses of Lancaster and York. IV. The Life and Death of Thomas Lord Cromwell. V. The Tempest, a Comedy. VI. The Merry Wives of Windsor, a Comedy. London: printed by R. Walker, Printer of Shakespear's, and all the other English Plays, at Shakespear's Head in Turn-Again-Lane, Snowhill, MDCCXXXIV. [1734]-35. ESTC No. T54097. Grub Street ID 280964.

Sold by R. Walker

  • Swan, John. The authentick tryals at large of John Swan and Elizabeth Jeffryes, for the murder of the late Mr. Joseph Jeffryes, of Walthamstow. And of Henry Simons, a Polish Jew, on an indictment for assaulting James Ashley, ... Both try'd at the Lent assizes at Chelmsford, ... 1752. London: printed and sold by R. Walker, 1752. ESTC No. N16152. Grub Street ID 5835.

Printed for R. Walker

  • Tell-Truth, Tom. A letter to a Member of Parliament in the North: containing remarks on the advertisement mentioned in the Craftsman of Saturday, November 8. about a memorandum book that was taken up near Arlington-Street. London: printed for R. Walker, at the White: Hart, without Temple-Bar; and sold by all book-sellers and pamphlet-sellers, [1729?]. ESTC No. N10443. Grub Street ID 454.