Publications of John Carter

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 John Carter

  • Fuller, Sylvester. New Ohio lands, and title indisputable. The subscriber having lately purchased a tract of 21,401 acres of land ... in the county of Randolph, state of Virginia ... takes this public method to inform those who wish to remove to a luxuriant soil ... that they may be supplied ... with tracts for farms at a very reasonable price. [Providence: Printed by John Carter, Jun, 1799]. ESTC No. W1007. Grub Street ID 319164.

Sold by John Carter

  • Paine, Thomas. Common sense: addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects: I. Of the origin and design of government in general, with concise remarks on the English Constitution. II. Of monarchy and hereditary succession. III. Thoughts on the present state of American affairs. IV. Of the present ability of America, with some miscellaneous reflections. [Two lines from Thomson]. [Providence]: Philadelphia, printed: Providence, re-printed and sold by John Carter, at Shakespear's Head, near the Court-House, M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]. ESTC No. W11894. Grub Street ID 321125.

Printed for John Carter

  • Audley, Matthew. The duties, and offices of friendship. A sermon preached at St. Paul's, Deptford, Kent, on the twenty-third of June, 1739. Before a select number of gentlemen who stile themselves the Order of Ubiquarians. By Matthew Audley, Curate and Lecturer of St. Mary, Rotherhith, Surrey. London: printed for John Carter, at the Blackmoor's-Head, opposite to the Royal-Exchange, in Cornhill, 1739. ESTC No. N2267. Grub Street ID 12019.