Publications of Carey 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 by Carey and

  • Greenwood, James. The Philadelphia vocabulary, English and Latin: put into a new method, proper to acquaint the learner with things as well as pure Latin words. Adorned with twenty-six pictures. For the use of schools. By James Greenwood, Author of the English grammar, and late Sur-master of St. Paul's School. Philadelphia: Printed by Carey and Co. and sold by all the booksellers, M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]. ESTC No. W27622. Grub Street ID 337737.

Printed for Carey and

  • Debates and proceedings of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, on the memorials praying a repeal or suspension of the law annulling the charter of the bank. Mathew Carey, editor. Philadelphia: Printed for Carey and Co. Seddon and Pritchard, M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]. ESTC No. W30716. Grub Street ID 341075.