Publications of R. Whitworth

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. Whitworth

  • Brooke, Henry. Essays against Popery, slavery, and arbitrary power, published during the late unnatural rebellion, in the years 1745 and 1746. Namely, the six farmer's letters to the Protestants of Ireland. On the Want of Charity in the Roman Church, and several other absurd Doctrines of the Papists. Remarks on the Pretender's Declaration, and on the dreadful Consequences of a successful French Invasion. On Hereditary Right, and the Pretender's Legitimacy. Proofs that Papists do not think themselves obliged to keep Faith with Hereticks. Articles of the Papist Creeds with Remarks. Principles of the Whigs and Jacobites compared. And on several other important subjects. Manchester: printed by R. Whitworth, Bookseller, [1750?]. ESTC No. T68899. Grub Street ID 293006.

Sold by R. Whitworth

  • Gore, Henry. Vulgar arithmetick improved; or, merchants accompts made easy. Containing great variety of improvements in all those rules of arithmetick, which commonly go under that Title; but especially the Golden Rule and Practice, as they are the Ground, and Foundation of all the rest, are largely insisted on. With an appendix, containing XXVI compendious methods of casting up most sorts of merchandise, never before published. The whole perform'd by whole Numbers only, and applyed throughout to Trade and Merchandise. By Henry Gore, Teacher of the Mathematicks, in Manchester. Manchester: printed and sold by R. Whitworth, also by Mr. Batley in Pater-Noster-Row, and Mr Hett in the Poultry, London, MDCCXXXIII [1733]. ESTC No. T110044. Grub Street ID 162640.

Printed for R. Whitworth

  • The muses choice: or, the merry fellow. Being a collection of wit and humour, Diversified with an uncommon Variety of Merry Tales; Pointed Satires; Pastoral Eclogues; Humourous Descriptions, Comic Characters in High and Low Life; Songs, English, Welch, Scots and Irish; Rebusses on Drinking Glasses, &c. Epigrams, smart and tart; Epitaphs, odd and curious, &c. &c. All calculated for the Improvement and Diversion of the Young and the Gay, the Sportive and Facetious; and suited to promote Mirth in Good Company, or divert a melancholy Hour. Extracted, partly, from the works of the most celebrated authors, such as Congreve, Pope, Swift, Gay, Prior, &c. and, partly, from originals,taken from private Manuscripts. London: printed for R. Whitworth, at the Feathers, in the Poultry; J. Warcus, at the Indian-Queen, opposite the Mansion-House; R. Richards, next Barnard's-Inn, Holborn; W. Mynors, at the Corner of Chancery-Lane, Holborn; and W. Heard,at the Philobiblian's-Library, Piccadilly, 1754. ESTC No. N10370. Grub Street ID 379.