Publications of James Carson

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 by James Carson

  • To His Excellency John, Lord Carteret; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. An imitation of Horace, Ode IX. Lib. IV. Dublin: printed by James Carson, 1729. ESTC No. T5191. Grub Street ID 279096.

Sold by James Carson

  • Steele, Sir Richard. The Englishman: being the sequel of the Guardian. By Richard Steele, Esq;. Dublin: printed and sold by James Carson, 1714. ESTC No. T188505. Grub Street ID 224319.

Printed for James Carson

  • Weaver, John. The loves of Mars and Venus, a dramatick entertainment of dancing, attempted in imitation of the pantomimes of the ancient Greeks and Romans; as it was perform'd at the Theatre in Drury-Lane. Dublin: printed by, and for James Carson, 1720. ESTC No. N11656. Grub Street ID 1659.