Publications of Robbins and

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 and for, or by/for and sold by Robbins and

  • Chelsum, James. A reply to Mr. Gibbon's Vindication of some passages in the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters of the History of the decline and fall of the Roman empire. Containing A Review of the Errors Still Retained in these Chapters. By James Chelsum, D. D. Chaplain to the Honourable and Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Winchester; Rector of Droxford, Hants; and late Student of Christchurch, Oxford. Winchester: printed and sold by Robbins and Gilmour. Sold also by T. Payne and Son, Mews Gate; and J. Robson and Co. New Bond-Street,London, M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]. ESTC No. T77384. Grub Street ID 299508.