Publications of Mathew Carey.

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 Mathew Carey.

  • Leprince de Beaumont, Madame Jeanne-Marie. The young misses' magazine: containing dialogues between a governess and several young ladies of quality, her scholars. In which each lady is made to speak according to her particular genius, temper, and inclination; their several faults are pointed out, and the easy way to mend them, as well as to think, and speak, and act properly; no less care being taken to form their hearts to goodness, than to enlighten their understandings with useful knowledge. A short and clear abridgement is also given of sacred and profane history, and some lessons in geography. The useful is blended throughout with the agreeable, the whole being interspersed with proper reflections and moral tales. Translated from the French of Madem. Le Prince de Beaumont. In four volumes. Vol. I[-IV]. Philadelphia: Printed by Mathew Carey. M.DCC.XCII. Sold by M. Carey, F. Bailey and T. Lang, in Philadelphia; and by T. Allen, in New-York, [1792]. ESTC No. W27331. Grub Street ID 337420.

Printed for Mathew Carey.

  • Agnew, James. An inaugural dissertation on perspiration; submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the thirty-first day of May, 1800. By James Agnew, A.M. of Princeton, New-Jersey; member of the Philadelphia Medical Society. [Two lines from Rush]. Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey. From the press of D. Hogan, no. 51, South Third-Street, opposite the United States Bank, 1800. ESTC No. W20509. Grub Street ID 330191.