Publications of John 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."

Sold by John Smith

  • Povey, Charles. A memorial of the proceedings of the late ministery and Lower House of Parliament. With an account of several secret correspondences with foreign ministers of state, Letters and Messages, sent from London to Paris and Utrecht, and from Utrecht and Paris to London; Abstracts of Speeches, Addresses, Answers, &c. with Reflections upon each Head. To which is added, A short History of a Plot to dethrone Queen Anne, and what has been attempted to bring in the Romish Pretender, since the King ascended the Throne. At the end of the Memorial is a Black List of the Names of many of those Persons concern'd in one or both Conspiracies. Also Particulars cast up in it, of Men, Horses, Money, Provisions, Cloaths, Quarters, Arms, Ammunition, &c. promis'd to the Assistance of the Treason. Writ by the author of An inquiry into the miscarriages of the four last years reign The Copic are Counterseit that have not this Coat of Arms on the Title-Page, viz. A Bend engrail'd between Six Cinque - foils, Crest a Grif. London: printed for the author, and sold by J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, A. Bell in Cornhill, R. Robinson in St. Paul's Church - yard, Mr. Robinson against Serjeants-Inn, J. Pemberton against St. Dunstan's Church, both in Fleet-Street, J. Smith at the Post-House, Covent-Garden, and Mrs. Boulter, next Old-Man's Coffee-House at Charing-Cross, [1715]. ESTC No. T84813. Grub Street ID 305170.

Printed for John Smith

  • Farquhar, George. Barcellona. A poem. Or, the Spanish expedition, under the command of Charles Earl of Peterborough. Until The Reduction of the City of Barcellona to the Obedience of Charles III. King of Spain. By George Farquhar, Gent. The Author of the Trip to the Jubilee, the Recruiting Officer, and the Stratagem. London: printed for John Smith at the Post-House in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, and Richard Standfast in Westminster-Hall, Booksellers, [1710?]. ESTC No. T73087. Grub Street ID 296421.