Royston, Richard 1599-1686

Overview

Works:	551 works in 895 publications in 2 languages and 5,074 library holdings
Genres:	Essays Commentaries Paraphrases Prayers and devotions History Controversial literature Devotional literature Criticism, interpretation, etc Sermons Church history
Roles:	Printer, Bookseller, Publisher, Book producer, Other, Author, Editor, Dedicator
Classifications:	PQ1642.E5, 844.3

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Richard Royston

The Case of Cornelius Bee and his partners : Richard Royston, William Wells, Samuel Thompson, Thomas Robinson, and William Morden, booksellers( )
Catalogue of some books( Book )
'Mr Royston I preye send these bookes' : an Oxford bookseller's wife's order of 1650 by Christopher D Cook( )

Most widely held works by Richard Royston

His Maiesties most gracious message, May the 12th. from Holdenby : to the Lords and Commons in the Parliament of England assembled at Westminster, and the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland : with his answer to the propositions by England and Wales( )

5 editions published in 1647 in English and held by 308 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The royal martyr, or, the history of the life and death of K. Charles I : together with Eikōn basilikē, or, the fourtraiture of His Sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings by Richard Perrinchief( )

12 editions published between 1693 and 1978 in English and held by 274 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Pensées : The provincial letters by Blaise Pascal( )

7 editions published between 1657 and 1695 in English and held by 206 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"First Modern library edition.""Pensées translated by W.F. Trotter. The provincial letters translated by Thomas M'Crie."

The rule and exercises of holy dying : in which are described the means and instruments of preparing our selves and others respectively, for a blessed death, and the remedies against the evils and temptations proper to the state of sicknesse : together with prayers and acts of vertue to be used by sick and dying persons, or by others standing in their attendance : to which are added rules for the visitation of the sick and offices proper for that ministery by Jeremy Taylor( )

10 editions published between 1651 and 1680 in English and held by 159 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

[Pelican in her piety encircled by the motto, "Pro lege et pro grege," and the imprint of Richard Royston]( )

3 editions published in 1675 in Latin and held by 151 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A letter of resolution to six quæres, of present use in the Church of England by Henry Hammond( )

6 editions published in 1653 in English and held by 144 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A free conference touching the present state of England both at home and abroad, in order to the designs of France( )

4 editions published in 1668 in English and held by 142 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A banquet of jests : or, Change of cheare ; being a collection, of moderne iests, witty ieeres, pleasant taunts, merry tales ; the second part newly published( )

3 editions published in 1636 in English and held by 142 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The royal martyr lamented in a sermon preached at the Savoy on King Charles the Martyr's day, 1674/5 by Gilbert Burnet( )

5 editions published in 1675 in English and held by 142 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

His Maiesties most gracious answer to the propositions : presented to him at Hampton-Court, the seventh of September, 1647 by the Earle of Pembrooke, Earle of Laverdale, Sir Charles Erskins, Sir Iohn Holland, Sir Iohn Cooke, Sir Iames Harrington, Master Richard Brown, Master Hugh Kenedy, Master Robert Barkley : in the names of the Parliament of England, and in behalfe of the Kingdome of Scotland by England and Wales( )

4 editions published in 1647 in English and held by 141 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Onomastikon brachy sive, nomenclatura brevis Anglo-Latino-Graeca. : In usum scholae Westmonasteriensis. by Francis Gregory( )

3 editions published in 1652 in English and held by 140 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The great exemplar of sanctity and holy life according to the Christian institution : described in the history of the life and death of the ever blessed Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world : with considerations and discourses upon the severall parts of the story, and prayers fitted to the severall mysteries : in three parts, with many additionals by Jeremy Taylor( )

7 editions published in 1653 in English and held by 132 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Jordan : the desert kingdom( Visual )

1 edition published in 1995 in English and held by 116 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Examines Jordan's people, culture, land, and history

Theologia eklektikē : a discourse of the liberty of prophesying : shewing the unreasonablenes of prescribing to other mens faith, and the iniquity of persecuting differing opinions by Jeremy Taylor( Book )

1 edition published in 1647 in English and held by 79 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Grammatices Graecae enchiridion, in usum scholae Collegialis Wigorniae( )

3 editions published in 1650 in English and held by 71 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Complete essays by Michel de Montaigne( Book )

2 editions published in 1632 in English and held by 63 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 – 1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual exercises with casual anecdotes and autobiography—and his massive volume Essais (translated literally as "Attempts" or "Trials") contains, to this day, some of the most widely influential essays ever written. Montaigne had a direct influence on writers all over the world, including René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Albert Hirschman, William Hazlitt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Stefan Zweig, Eric Hoffer, Isaac Asimov, and possibly on the later works of William Shakespeare

Ductor dubitantium, or, The rule of conscience in all her generall measures : serving as a great instrument for the determination of cases of conscience : in four books by Jeremy Taylor( Book )

7 editions published between 1660 and 1676 in English and held by 59 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The memoires of the lives and actions of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, &c. : in which an account is given of the rise and progress of the civil wars of Scotland, with other great transactions both in England and Germany, from the year 1625, to the year 1652 : together with many letters, instructions, and other papers, written by King Charles the I : never before published : all drawn out of, or copied from the originals by Gilbert Burnet( Book )

3 editions published in 1677 in English and held by 52 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A paraphrase and annotations upon all the books of the New Testament : briefly explaining all the difficult places thereof by Henry Hammond( Book )

6 editions published between 1653 and 1681 in English and held by 52 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The compleat history of Independency. : Upon the Parliament begun 1640. by Clement Walker( Book )

7 editions published between 1641 and 1661 in English and held by 44 WorldCat member libraries worldwide