The firm published various portraits from engravings based on earlier drawings made from paintings.
It documented travels in various countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa in 1813 and was a follow-up to an earlier book on Russia Tartary and Turkey published in 1810.
The firm also published Britannia Depicta, a series of 130 views of "the most interesting and picturesque objects in Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, & Derbyshire".
The book included Joseph Farington's work, such as General View from Matlock High Tor, in Part VI, Derbyshire published May 15, 1817.
Britannia Depicta [2] The Cadell and Davies papers are held the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.