Publications of Ralph 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 Ralph Smith

  • William, King of Great Britain and Ireland. Original letters from King William III. then Prince of Orange, to King Charles II. Lord Arlington, &c. Translated. Together with an account of his reception at Middleburgh, and his speech upon that occasion. London: printed by W. Smith and G. Roydon, for Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lion in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and Ralph Smith at the Bible under the Piazza of the Royal Exchange. Cornhil, 1704. ESTC No. T43431. Grub Street ID 272011.
  • Mather, Cotton. Manly Christianity. A brief essay on the signs of good growth and strength in the most lovely Christianity. Or the marks of a Christian become strong in the grace that makes him one. A discourse very seasonable in these times of so much controversy from different opinions in religion. London: printed for Ralph Smith at the Bible under the Piazza of the Royal Exchange, Cornhill, 1711. ESTC No. N10322. Grub Street ID 330.