Publications of Robert Smith Jr.

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 Robert Smith Jr.

  • Washington, George. A circular letter, from His Excellency George Washington, commander in chief of the armies of the United States of America; addressed to the governors of the several states, on his resigning the command of the army, and retiring from public business. Philadelphia: Printed by Robert Smith, Jun. back of the Fountain Inn, between Second and Third Streets, [1783]. ESTC No. W8301. Grub Street ID 357385.
  • P., V.. A review of the constitution proposed by the late Convention held at Philadelphia, 1787. By a Federal Republican. [Five lines of quotations]. Philadelphia: Printed by Robert Smith, and James Prange, below the drawbridge the third door below Spruce-street, in Front and Water-street, M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]. ESTC No. W31412. Grub Street ID 341826.
  • The Evening chronicle, or, The Philadelphia advertiser. Philadelphia [Pa.]: Printed by Robert Smith, -1787. ESTC No. P5393. Grub Street ID 57227.

Author

  • Smith, Robert, Jr.. Philadelphia, January 5th, 1787. Sir, The subscriber should think himself wanting in gratitude to his kind customers, and undeserving of their future favour, if he should neglect to return them his most humble and unfeigned thanks for the spirit and encouragement they have uniformly shewn him in promoting his success in printing of a news-paper, in the winter of 1785 ... [Philadelphia: Printed by Robert Smith, Jr, 1787]. ESTC No. W4621. Grub Street ID 353559.