 As a printer Stansby worked for many of the booksellers of his era; he also worked repeatedly for several stationers over the years.For John Smethwick, Stansby printed several editions of the collected "Poems" of Michael Drayton (1609–30), plus several of the later editions of prose works by Robert Greene, like "Menaphon" (1616, 1631) and "Never Too Late" (1621).Stansby printed collections of the sermons of Barten Holyday for Nathaniel Butter.