Publications of R. Cater

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 for R. Cater

  • Dunton, John. The danger of living in a known sin, and the hazard of a Death-Bed Repentance, Fairly argued from the late Remorse of W- D- of D-. With Serious Reflections on his Adulterous Life, and a Parallel drawn between his Penitence and that of the E. of Rochester, the E. of Marlborough, and other great Penitents. In answer to Dr. K---'s sermon preach'd at his funeral. Address'd to the husbands of quality, who keep misses. The second edition.. London]: Printed for R. Cater, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1738. ESTC No. T54925. Grub Street ID 281552.
  • Haywood, Eliza. The female Spectator. By Mrs. Eliza Haywood. In four volumes. London: printed for A. Millar, W. Law, & R. Cater, 1775. ESTC No. N16933. Grub Street ID 6433.