Publications of Iohn Smethwick

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 Iohn Smethwick

  • Dove, John. The conuersion of Salomon. A direction to holinesse of life; handled by way of commentarie vpon the whole booke of Canticles. Profitable for yong men which are not yet mortified, for old men which are decrepit, and haue one foote in the graue, and for all sorts of men which haue an intent to renounce the vanities of this world and to follow Iesus Christ. By Iohn Doue Doct. of Diuinitie. London: Printed by W. Stansby for Iohn Smethwick, and and are to bee sold at his shop in S. Dunstones Church-yard, 1613. ESTC No. S110104. Grub Street ID 130231.