Publications of William Goldsmith

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 William Goldsmith

  • Seally, John. The accountant's companion; or, schoolmaster's new assistant to practical arithmetic. Wherein The Rudiments of Common Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, are delivered in a new and more concise Method than hitherto published. Whereby The vulgar Error of confounding Principles together, and the diversifying them into several Rules when they are built on the same Reason, is carefully avoided. With a sufficient variety of examples, Operated in the neatest and most approved Methods. Also the Extraction and Use of the square and cube roots, &c. With their Application to various Branches of the Mathematics. Duodecimals proved by practice, &c. And applied to Work performed by Joiners, Painters, Glaziers, Paviours, &c. To which is added, a course of book-keeping by single entry; Very necessary in facilitating the Acquisition of the Italian Method, and extremely useful for many Kinds of Business in which the latter is not materially wanted. The Whole adapted to the Use of Merchants, wholesal. London: printed for William Goldsmith, in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCLXXIII. [1773]. ESTC No. N30300. Grub Street ID 19267.