Publications of William 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 William Smith

  • A plea for the Protestant faith: or, an antidote against the infectious contagion of Antichristian darkness; vended by Mr. Alexander Pirie, ... By a member of the associate session at Auchtermuchty. Glasgow: Printed by William Smith for the author; and sold by him, and the booksellers, 1771. ESTC No. N38888. Grub Street ID 26368.
  • Transactions of the eighty-five private societies, in and about Glasgow; united in a general correspondence, ... to oppose a repeal of the penal statutes against Papists in Scotland. Containing, I. Their minutes of procedure ... II. Their letter to the Right Hon. Lord Suffolk III. Their epistolary correspondence with the Right Hon. Lord George Gordon. ... Glasgow: printed by William Smith, 1779. ESTC No. N34481. Grub Street ID 22851.
  • Erskine, Ralph. Gospel sonnets; or, spiritual songs. In six parts. I. The Believer's Espousals. II. The Believer's Jointure. III. The Believer's Riddle. IV. The Believer's Lodging. V. The Believer's Soliloquy. VI. The Believer's Principles, Concerning Creation and Redemption, Law and Gospel, Justification and Sanctification, Faith and Sense, Heaven and Earth. The twenty-second edition. In which the Holy Scriptures are fully extended. By the late Reverend Mr. Ralph Erskine, Minister of the Gospel at Dunfermline. To which is now prefixed, an account of the author's life and writings, never before printed with his Gospel sonnets. Glasgow: printed by William Smith. Sold by him, at his shop, in the foot of the Saltmercat, MDCCLXXXII. [1782]. ESTC No. N18088. Grub Street ID 7561.
  • Brown, John. The shame and contempt of professed Christians, who neglect to raise up spiritual children to Jesus Christ. Being the substance of two sermons, preached, the one after the ordination of Mr. Ebenezer Brown, at Inverkeithing; and the other, after a sacramental occasion at Whitburn. By John Brown, ... The third edition. To which is subjoined, Dying advices to the associate congregation of Haddington, by the author. Glasgow: printed by William Smith: sold by James Smith at his shop, 1791. ESTC No. N62654. Grub Street ID 44951.