Publications of Richard 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 Richard Smith

  • Dawson, Thomas. The parochial clergy-man's duty: or, An earnest exhortation to I. Such as hold constant communion with the establish'd Church. II. Such as separate from or renounce communion with the establish'd Church. III. The irreligious and prophane, or such as neglect the duties of religion in general. Digested from the works of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, the present Archbishop of York, Bishop Beveridge, Bishop Stillingfleet, Dr. Sherlock, Dr. Scot, Mr. Wall, &c. London: Printed for Richard Smith, bookseller, at his Warehouse in the Inner Walk of Exeter-Exchange in the Strand; and sold by William Taylor, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXI. [1711]. ESTC No. T170471. Grub Street ID 208175.