Richard Edwards 

Richard Edwards was a London printer who in 1804 printed Robert Robinson’s Sermons, Preached on Particular Occasions: to which are added, three original discourses, taken in short-hand, and a funeral oration, delivered at the interment of Mrs. S. Birley (1804). At that time, Benjamin Flower was in the process of republishing his 1796 edition of Robinson’s Seventeen Discourses on Several Texts of Scripture; addressed to Christian assemblies, in villages near Cambridge (what Flower generally referred to as Robinson’s Village Sermons).  Obviously, Flower was not pleased with Edwards’s attempt to publish an edition of Robinson’s sermons ahead of him, but he was unable to stop Edwards.  On 20 November 1802, Flower placed a proposal in his Intelligencer  “for Printing by Subscription, (Part of the profits to be appropriated to the Widow of the Author.) The Miscellaneous Works of Robert Robinson,” which was to be a four-volume edition comprising “all the publications of Mr. Robinson, except his History of Baptism, Ecclesiastical Researches ... and his Village Sermons.”  Flower republished Robinson’s Village Sermons in 1804, but Edwards’s edition postponed Flower’s publication of Robinson’s Works for several years.  It finally appeared in 1807 as The Miscellaneous works of Robert Robinson, late pastor of the Baptist Church and Congregation of Protestant Diss­enters at Cambridge in four volumes: to which are prefixed brief memoirs of his life and writings. That same year Flower also published Robinson’s Sermon X, Slavery Inconsistent with the Spirit of Christianity, preached at Cambridge, Feb. 10, 1783. In 1812 he would once more return to Robinson, this time publishing the Posthumous works of Robert Robinson, late pastor of the Baptist Church and congregation of Protestant Dissenters, at Cambridge.