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

  • Brown, John. Two short catechisms mutually connected; the questions of the former being generally supposed and omitted in the latter. ... By Mr. John Brown, ... Glasgow: printed by William Smith, for William Anderson, Stirling. Sold also by W. Smith, 1782. ESTC No. T79781. Grub Street ID 301196.

Sold by William Smith

  • Shirra, Robert. A death-bed dialogue: being a series of conversations, between Mr. Shirra, and Mr. Lister, ... Together with the duty of the survivers [sic]. In three parts. Written by Mr. Robert Shirra, ... Glasgow: printed and sold by William Smith, 1766. ESTC No. T166176. Grub Street ID 204418.