Publications of John Robinson

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 John Robinson

  • Crosby, Thomas. The mariner's guide: being a compleat treatise of navigation, both in theory and practice. Containing every thing necessary in that most useful art, ... Together with all the tables necessary and useful for the mariner's practice. The whole comprised in so plain and familiar a manner, that persons of common understanding may easily comprehend what is contained therein. By Thomas Crosby, . The third edition, corrected, and adjusted to the new stile, with many considerable additions and improvements.. London: printed for S. Crowder and Co.; and for John Robinson, Southwark, 1762. ESTC No. N4371. Grub Street ID 29412.