Publications of Iohn Smethvvicke

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 Smethvvicke

  • Greene, Robert. Ciceronis amor. = Tullies loue. Wherein is discoursed, the prime of Ciceroes youth, setting out in liuely portraitures, how yong gentlemen, that ayme at honour, should leuell the end of their affections, holding the loue of countrey and friends in more esteeme, then those fading blossomes of beautie, that onely feede the curious suruey of the eye. A worke full of pleasure, as following Ciceroes vaine, who was as conceited in his youth, as graue in his age, profitable, as containing precepts worthy so famous an orator. Robert Greene. In artibus Magister. Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit vtile dulci. London: Printed [by J. Windet] for Iohn Smethvvicke, and are to be sold at his shop in S. Dunstanes Church-yard, vnder the Diall, 1609. ESTC No. S116005. Grub Street ID 135698.