Publications of Sam. 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 Sam. Smith

  • Ray, John. A persuasive to a holy life: from the happiness that attends it both in this world, and in the world to come. By John Ray, F.R.S. Some time Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge. London: printed by Sam. Smith, and Benj. Walford, printers to the Royal Society, at the Prince's-Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCC. [1700]. ESTC No. R13690. Grub Street ID 61771.

Printed for Sam. Smith

  • Cowper, William. The anatomy of humane bodies, with figures drawn after the life by some of the best masters in Europe, and curiously engraven in one hundred and fourteen copper plates, illustrated with large explications, containing many new anatomical discoveries, and chirurgical observations: to which is added an introduction explaining the animal oeconomy, with a copious index. By William Cowper. Oxford: printed at the Theater for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, printers to the Royal Society, at the Princes Arms in St. Paul's Church Yard, London, 1798. ESTC No. N69164. Grub Street ID 50319.