Publications of Messrs. Carpenter

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 Messrs. Carpenter

  • Taylor, John. Letters on India, political, commercial, and military, relative to subjects important to the British interests in the East. Addresses to a proprietor of East-India Stock. By Lieut. Colonel Taylor of the Bombay estalishment: author of travels from England to India: considerations on the practicability of an overland communication between Great-Britain and Her eastern dependencies, &c. &c. London: Printed by S. Hamilton, Falcon-Court, Fleet-Street: for Messrs. Carpenter and Co. Old Bond-Street; Egerton, Whitehall; Murray and Highley, Fleet-Street; Wallis, Paternoster-Row; Vernor and Hood, Poultry; and Black and Parry, Leadenhall-Street, 1800. ESTC No. T153471. Grub Street ID 197816.