Robert Gosling (1684?–1741)
Robert Gosling, bookseller and publisher (1707–41); at the Mitre, near the Temple Gate (1707–35); at the Mitre & Crown against St. Dunstan's Church / opposite Fetter Lane in Fleet Street (1735–41).
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)
GOSLING (ROBERT), bookseller in London, (i) Mitre (or Mitre and Crown) against St, Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street; (2) at the Middle Temple Gate. 1707–41. Began publishing in 1707. [T.C. III. 555.] Many of his publications are noticed by Nichols. [Lit. Anecd. i. 211, et seq.] He is often mentioned by Browne Willis in his correspondence with Heame. He died on January 4th, 1741. Sir Francis Gosling, the banker, was his son.
Notes & Queries "London Booksellers Series" (1931–2)
GOSLING, ROBERT. Was in business by Street, 1707, and on Dec. 17, 1711, disposed of a seventh share of 'Captain Cook's Voyages' to Lintot for £7 3s. 0d. His shop was then at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleet Street, or, as he sometimes described it, The Mitre, Near the Temple Gate, where he remained until about 1735, when he shifted to the Mitre and Crown, opposite Fetter Lane. Here he was still residing when he died on Jan. 4, 1741. Gosling's name was connected with several important publications, not least amongst them the 'Historical Register,' which he ushered into the world in 1730 with the help of R. and E. Nutt, and Daniel Browne, and an edition of the works of Selden, the proposals for which were issued in 1721. A record of a number of his publications is preserved in Nichols i. 219, 242, 247, 249, 256, 329, 434, 467, 469; ii. 87; vi. 188, 198: while a list of his stock on antiquarianism (for he was well known in his day as an antiquarian), is to be found in the Daily Post for Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1720. Timperley says that Sir Francis Gosling, bookseller, banker and Alderman of London, was his son.
—Frederick T. Wood, 22 August 1931
GOSLING, ROBERT. The earliest imprint that I have found of this bookseller is on the title-page of James Broom's 'Travels Over England, Scotland and Wales,' "... the second edition ... Printed for Rob. Gosling, at the Mitre over against Chancery Lane End in Fleet Street, 1707." In his later period he seems to have used the signs of the Crown and Mitre, or the Mitre and Crown, indifferently. His stock was sold by auction on 27 Oct., 1741, and he was succeeded by Francis Gosling (see above).
—Ambrose Heal, 3 October 1931