Publications of M. 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 for M. Smith

  • Steele, Sir Richard. Youth's preceptor, containing a grammar of the English tongue; A Treatise on the Art of Poetry. Rhetoric, or the Art of Persuasion. Logic, or the Art of Reasoning. Tables for various useful Calculations. Illustrated with several plates, containing Thirteen Alphabets used in Writing and Printing. The whole forming a complete system of an English education. A new edition compiled for the use of schools. By Sir Richard Steele. London: printed for M. Smith and W. Davies, MDCCLXXXII. [1782]. ESTC No. N14389. Grub Street ID 4272.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by M. Smith

  • G., Z.. Excise anatomiz'd. Declaring That unequal Imposition of Excise to be the only Cause of the Ruin of Trade, the universal Impoverishment, and destructive to the Liberties of the whole Nation. By Z. G. a Well-Wisher of the common Good. London: printed and sold by M. Smith in Cornhill, 1733. ESTC No. T63490. Grub Street ID 288752.