He died at Prospect Place, Lambeth, after a period of illness, on 8 December 1826, from a bladder stone.
He brought out:[1] Carey edited over fifty volumes of the Regent Latin Classics published by Baldwin.
1818), and translated Paul Jérémie Bitaubé's Batavians, Madame de Staël's Young Emigrants, Lehman's Letters on Switzerland, and others.
In 1810 he published a story for children called Learning better than House and Land, which went through several editions.
His school-books were popular in their day and generally praised for accuracy and scholarly qualities.