Publications of Rob. Willoughby

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 Rob. Willoughby

  • S., H.. The traders dictionary: being an histori-geographical description of all the cities, towns, and most noted villages in Great-Britain; with their Distances of Miles and Bearings from London; the Days of the Week when Markets are kept; the Time when fixed, and moveable Fairs are held; the Points of the Compass, to which when the Moon comes it makes High-Water at any Sea-Port; their Longitudes and Latitudes. With an exact list of all the inns where the stage-coaches and carriers put up, in London, and the parts adjacent. By H. S. a lover o his country. London: printed for Rob. Willoughby, against Peel's-Coffee-House, the End of Flower-de-Luce-Court, by Fetter-Lane in Fleet-Street, 1720. ESTC No. T179851. Grub Street ID 216557.