Publications of R. Cross

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. Cross

  • The wits museum: or, the new London jester; being a collection of the most brilliant jests, curious Bon-Mots, and the most pleasing short Stories in the English Language, as related by the following facetious Gentlemen: C. Bannister, J. Palmer, W. Palmer, Edwin, Lee-Lewis, Ned Scott, Harry Hale, Jack Quick, S.G. Delpini, And the Rest of the Sons of Conviviality, From the Witty Lord to the Droll Punster. To which is added a choice collection of moral sentences; also, a selection of Curious Epigrams. Dublin: printed by R. Cross, No. 28, Brtage-Street, [1794?]. ESTC No. T69361. Grub Street ID 293371.

Sold by R. Cross

  • Walsh, R. F. Francis. Funiculus triplex: or the indulgences of the cord of St. Francis. By the R. F. Francis Walsh, L.J. & C. Dublin: printed and sold by R. Cross, no. 29, Bridge-street, M,DCC,LXXX. [1780]. ESTC No. N71299. Grub Street ID 51586.

Printed for R. Cross

  • Mathews, Charles. Memoirs of a Scots heiress. Addressed to the Right Honourable Lady Catherine ******. By the author of Constance, &c. ... Dublin: printed by William Porter, for R. Cross, P. Wogan, P. Byrne, W. Sleater [and 9 others in Dublin], 1791. ESTC No. N11104. Grub Street ID 1096.