Publications of Robert Wilson

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 Wilson

  • An account of a barbarous rape, and bloody murder, committed on the body of Mary Carty, otherwise Venus, by a black-a-moor who attended the franchises. The particulars as follows. Dublin: printed by Robert Wilson, 1752. ESTC No. T7656. Grub Street ID 298952.

Sold by Robert Wilson

  • Smith, William. The morning-watch: or, A spiritual glass opened. Wherein a clear discovery is made of that which lies in darknesse, from whence wars, contentions, and destructions do arise concerning a professed religion. With a few words of tender counsel unto the Pope, prelate, presbyter, Independent & Baptist, &c. That they may all watch to the morning, and in the glass behold themselves, ... By one vvho travels for Israel's freedom, William Smith. London: printed, and are to be sold by Robert Wilson, at the sign of the Black-spread-Eagle and Wind-Mill in Martins near Aldersgate, 1660. ESTC No. R132. Grub Street ID 61321.

Printed for Robert Wilson

  • Brooksop, Jone. An invitation of love unto the seed of God, throughout the world. With a word to the wise in heart. And a lamentation for New-England. Given forth from the movings of the spirit of the Lord, by one who is known to the world by the name of Jone Brooksop. London: printed for Robert Wilson, [1662]. ESTC No. R10126. Grub Street ID 58523.