Publications of R. Brown

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 R. Brown

  • The whole book of Psalms, collected into English metre by Sternhold, Hopkins, &c. with the usual hymns and spiritual songs, and all the ancient and modern tunes ... Composed in three parts, ... By John Playford. The twentieth edition, corrected, with considerable improvements; and the addition of thirteen new psalm-tunes, .. by Joseph Fox, ... London: printed by R. Brown, for C. Ware; T. Longman, and T. Caslon; and P. Davey and B. Law, 1757. ESTC No. T94878. Grub Street ID 314406.

Printed for R. Brown

  • An Exact account of the Duke of Schombergs happy voyage from Highlake, to his safe arrival at Carrick-Fergus. With the particulars of the engagement with three French men of war in that bay. Licensed, August 21. 1689. London: printed for R. Brown, MDCLXXXIX. [1689]. ESTC No. R10298. Grub Street ID 58683.