Publications of Joseph 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 by Joseph Smith

  • Pike, Samuel. A dispassionate narrative of the rise, progress and issue of the late schism in the church under the pastoral care of Samuel Pike. London: printed by J. Smith, near Wellclose-Square, and may be had of E. Dilly, at the Rose and Crown, in the Poultry, MDCCLX. [1760]. ESTC No. T201819. Grub Street ID 232968.
  • Wright, John, Accomptant. The american negotiator, or the various currencies of the British colonies in America; as well the islands, as the continent. The Currencies of Nova Scotia, Canada, New England, New York, East Jersey, Pensylvania, West Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, &c. And of the Islands of Barbadoes, Jamaica, St. Christophers, Antigua, Nevis, Montserrat, &c. Reduced into English money, by a series of tables suited to the several Exchanges between the Colonies and Britain, adapted to all the Variations that from Time to Time have, or may happen. With Tables reducing the current Money of the Kingdom of Ireland into Sterling, and the contrary, at all the Variations of Exchange. Also, A Chain of Tables for the interchangeable Reduction of the Currencies of the Colonies into each other. And many other useful Tables relating to the Trade in America. By J. Wright, accomptant. The third edition.. London: printed for the proprietors, by J. Smith, Wellclose-Square, and sold by Messieurs Hawes, Clarke and Collins, Booksellers in Paternoster-Row; and by booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland, MDCCLXV. [1765]. ESTC No. T109838. Grub Street ID 162469.
  • The instructor's assistant. Being a compendium of arithmetic, both practical and theorical, in four parts, containing, 1. Arithmetic in whole Numbers, wherein are all the Rules demonstrated in a plain and easy Manner, having more Questions in each Rule than any now extant, some of which are worked at large, and others with their Answers annexed. 2. Vulgar Fractions, wherein several Things that have been omitted by others, are inserted in a plain and familiar Manner. 3. Decimal Fractions is also treated largely, as also the Square and Cube Roots. A general Rule for extracting the Roots of all Powers-Likewise Interest, Annuities, &c. both simple and compound (after the Method of the late Mr. Ward, but more copious) with necessary Tables to each Rule, shewing the Method of making them, and their Application to Use. 4. The Multiplication of Feet, Inches and Parts, shewn six different Ways; to which is annexed Geometrical Problems, the Mensuration of Superficies, and Artificers Work, in a plai. London: printed by Joseph Smith, Wellclose-Square, for Messrs. Hawes and Co. Booksellers in Paternoster-Row, [1765]. ESTC No. T223055. Grub Street ID 245750.