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

  • An account of a late engagement at sea, near Rye, on the coast of Sussex. With the particulars of taking a French man of war, and bringing her into the said port; of the number of the enemy killed, among whom was the Lord Strabane, &c. In a letter from Rye, August the 8th, 1691. Licensed, according to order. 1691. London: Printed for J. Smith in Fleet-street, 1691. ESTC No. R6184. Grub Street ID 126545.

Printed for John Smith

  • An account of the taking Athlone. In a letter from a gentleman there, to his friend in London, dated July 5th, 1691. Licens'd, July 17, 1691. London: printed for John Smith, in Fleet-street, 1691. ESTC No. R173171. Grub Street ID 66831.
  • A copy of a letter written from His Majesties camp at Gerpines, by an officer, to a friend of his in London, dated July 31. new stile. 1691. Licensed, July 29. 1691. J.F. London: printed for J.[ohn] Smith in Fleetstreet, 1691. ESTC No. R225355. Grub Street ID 98545.