Publications of William Smith

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 William Smith

  • Haywood, Eliza. The perplex'd dutchess: or, treachery rewarded. Being some memoirs of the court of Malfy. In a letter from a Sicilian nobleman, who had his Residence there, to his Friend in London. To which is added Innocence preserv'd. A novel. Dublin: printed by S. Powell, for George Risk, and William Smith, Booksellers in Dame's-Street, MDCCXXVII. [1727]. ESTC No. T95845. Grub Street ID 315338.
  • Haywood, Eliza. Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburgh. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. By Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Dublin: printed by S. Powell, for George Risk, George Ewing, and William Smith, 1729. ESTC No. N3320. Grub Street ID 21709.
  • Synge, Edward. The way to eternal salvation plainly pointed out. By Edward, Lord Arch-Bishop of Tuam. Dublin: printed by S. Powell, for William Smith at the Hercules, Bookseller in Dame-Street, 1734. ESTC No. N35619. Grub Street ID 23781.
  • Voltaire. The orphan of China. A tragedy. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire. First acted at Paris, on the 20th of August, 1755. Dublin: printed for William Smith, Bookseller, at the Hercules in Dame-Street, MDCCLVI. [1756]. ESTC No. N10646. Grub Street ID 654.