Publications of Robert Taylor

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 Taylor

  • The Psalms of David, imitated in the language of the New Testament, ... By I. Watts, D.D. Berwick: printed and sold by Robert Taylor, 1753. ESTC No. T93087. Grub Street ID 312827.

Sold by Robert Taylor

  • Milton, John. Paradise lost. A poem, in twelve books. The author John Milton. Berwick upon Tweed: printed and sold by Robert Taylor, 1754. ESTC No. T170400. Grub Street ID 208109.

Printed for Robert Taylor

  • Dreghorn, John Maclaurin. Considerations on the nature and origin of literary property: Wherein that Species of Property is clearly proved to subsist no longer than for the Terms fixed by the Satute 8vo Annae. To which is added, a letter to Robert Taylor, bookseller, in Berwick. [Berwick]: Printed for Robert Taylor, Bookseller, MDCCLXVIII. [1768]. ESTC No. T207983. Grub Street ID 236976.