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."

Printed by John Smith

  • The moderate man the best subject, in Church and State. Prov'd from the arguments of the learned Bishop Wilkins in his sermon upon Phil. iv. 5 Let your Moderation be known unto all Men. With Archbishop Tillotson's opinion on the same subject. London: printed by J. Smith, in Fleet-Street, 1712. ESTC No. T203280. Grub Street ID 233908.
  • A Short account of the state of England, when King James design'd to call His second Parliament. Collected chiefly from the third volume of the Reverend Dr. Kennet's History of England. London]: Printed by J. Smith in Fleet-Street, 1714/15. ESTC No. T48103. Grub Street ID 276052.
  • The Kensington tragedy: or, The perjur'd lover justly rewarded. An account of one madam where, a young lady of ten thousand pounds fortune, who was courted by one Mr. Richardson a turkey merchant, that lived in Bread-street; and how after her many vows and promises, and the time set for their marriage she broke all her vows, and married a Captain of the Guards. I. An account how he [c]ispairingly went to sea, against his relation consent, and was cast away, and how his spirit visits her night and day II. Concluding with her advice to young men and maids to keep their vows and to shun the evil and sorrow which she goes through. London: printed by J. Smith in Fleet-Street, [1715?]. ESTC No. T196653. Grub Street ID 230002.