Publications of Robert 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 Robert Smith

  • Henry, Matthew. The communicant's companion: or, instructions and helps for the right receiving of the Lord's Supper, by Mr. Matthew Henry ... Glasgow: printed by Robert Smith and Alexander Hutcheson in company, and sold by them at their shops in the Salt-mercat, 1744. ESTC No. N52602. Grub Street ID 36588.

Printed for Robert Smith

  • Brooks, Thomas. A golden key to open hidden treasures, or several great points, that refer to the saints present blessedness, and their future happiness, with the resolution of several important questions. Also, the active and passive obedience of Christ vindicated and improved; against men of corrupt minds, &c. who boldly, in pulpit and press contend against those glorious truths of the gospel. To which is added, Eleven serious singular Pleas, that all sincere Christians may safely and groundedly make, to those ten scriptures in the Old and New Testament, that speak of the general judgment, and of that particular judgment, that must certainly pass upon them all immediately after death. The Godhead and manhood of Christ, is here largely proved, and improved against all gainsayers, by what names and titles soever they are distinguished and known among us. Several things concerning hell, and hellish torments, opened, cleared and improved against all Atheists, and all others that boldly assert, that ther. Glasgow: printed for Robert Smith Bookseller, at the Sign of the Gilt-Bible, near the Head of the Salt-Mercat, MDCCLXIII. [1763]. ESTC No. T104021. Grub Street ID 157626.