Publications of J. 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 J. Smith

  • The whole proceedings and resolutions of the freeholders of the county of Middlesex, at a meeting publicly convened and held by the high sheriff, at Hackney, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1800, Where it was Unanimously Resolved, that the War IS The Cause Of The Alarming High Price of Provisions, &c. &c. &c. Also A very interesting Debate on the Parliamentary Conduct of Mr. Byng and Mr. Mainwaring, The present Representatives of the County. To Which IS Added, The Prospect of Famine, Clearly Demonstrated BY His Grace The Duke Of Portland, In his Letters to Mr. Wakefield, mayor of nottingham, and the lord lieutenant of the country of oxford. London: printed by W. Hughes, Smithfield, for J. S. Jordan, No. 166, Fleet Street. Sold also by J. Smith, No. 11, James Street, Covent Garden, the booksellers in Piccadilly and at the Royal Exchange, 1800. ESTC No. T125477. Grub Street ID 175611.

Printed for J. Smith

  • Robinson, Anthony. An examination of a sermon, preached at Cambridge, by Robert Hall, M.A., entitled, Modern infidelity considered with respect to its influence on society; With an appendix, containing observations upon a critique on the sermon, in the Monthly Review for February, 1800. By Anthony Robinson. London: printed for J. Smith, James-Street, Covent-Garden; by G. Woodfall, Paternoster-Row, London, [1800]. ESTC No. T27520. Grub Street ID 259435.
  • Stanhope, Charles Stanhope. The speech of Earl Stanhope, in the House of Lords, On Thursday the 20th of February, 1800, in support of his motion for peace with the French Republic; Wherein he shews the ruinous Tendency of the War, drawn from authentic documents, published by George Rose, secretary of the treasury, With a Comparative View of the Resources and Taxes of Great Britain and France; also, seven reasons for discontinuing the war as the best means of supplying the people with bread, And removing the apparent Prospect of the Scarcity of that necessary Article. London: printed for J. Smith, No. 11, James-Street, Covent-Garden, by A. Seale, Goodge-Street, Middlesex-Hospital, M,D,CCC. [1800]. ESTC No. T182010. Grub Street ID 218535.