Publications of proprietor Carington

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 proprietor Carington

  • Bowles, Carington. Bowles's post-chaise companion; or, Travellers directory through England and Wales: Being an actual survey of all the principal, direct, and cross-roads, both ancient and modern; with the distances expressed in single miles according to measurement: exhibiting the several towns, villages, post-stages, &c. on or near the roads; together with the circuits of the judges, and an exact alphabetical list of all the fairs, as settled since the alternation of the style. The second edition, corrected and greatly improved; with additions. In two volumes. Vol I. London: Printed for the proprietor Carington Bowles, at his map and Print Warehouse, No. 69, St. Paul's Church Yard, [1781]. ESTC No. T210591. Grub Street ID 238630.