Publications of Robert Stewart

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 Robert Stewart

  • Morse, Jedidiah. A true and authentic history of His Excellency George Washington, commander in chief of the American army during the late war, and present president of the United States. Also, of the brave Generals Montgomery and Greene, and the celebrated Marquis de La Fayette. To whic is added, an ode on General Washington's birth day. By the Reverend Mr. Thomas Thornton. Philadelphia: Printed by Peter Stewart, in Second-Street, ninth door above Chesnut-Street, for Robert Stewart, travelling bookseller, M,DCC,XC. [1790] (Price nine-pence). ESTC No. W24229. Grub Street ID 334184.