Publications of Carnan and

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 Carnan and

  • Smith, Daniel. A letter to Dr. Cadogan, with remarks on the most interesting paragraphs in his Treatise on the gout; in which the immediate cause of a fit of the gout is proved, both from Observation and Experiments: With the Reasons assigned, why the Gout prevails now, more than it did some Ages ago. By Mr. Daniel Smith. London]: Printed for Carnan and Newbery, Booksellers, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, [1772. ESTC No. N10590. Grub Street ID 599.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by Carnan and

  • Court de Gébelin, Antoine. The shield of Achilles, translated from the French of Monsieur Court de Gebelin. Reading: printed and sold by Carnan and Smart;- sold also by Mr. Robinson and Mr. Elmsley, in London, and by the booksellers in Oxford., 1784. ESTC No. N36316. Grub Street ID 24294.