Samuel Smith's Career

Apprenticed

Feb 1, 1675

initially to the bookseller Samuel Gellibrand but almost immediately ‘turned over’ or transferred to Moses Pitt

Pitt's 'Atlas' proposed

May 3, 1678

12 volumes proposed; only 4 published. Members of the Royal Society show their support to Pitt

Smith becomes freeman of Stationers and City of London

Mar 3, 1682

(no longer apprenticed to Pitt)