[3] In conformity with his late father's wishes, Thomas continued the publishing programme that was already under way, issuing new books on "practical" topics such as history, geography, engineering and travel accounts, and issuing new volumes in his father's Constable's Miscellany book series.
[4] Thomas also continued and expanded the Edinburgh printing business of his grandfather, David Willison (father-in-law of Archibald Constable).
[5] In 1835 he became the His Majesty's Printer and Publisher in Edinburgh (which gave him the privilege of Acts of Parliaments, Edicts, Proclamations, and other papers" but did not give him a monopoly of printing the Bible in Scotland as had formerly been the case)[6] and four years later he was appointed Printer to the University of Edinburgh.
Many of those works were published over the following years along with the Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers by William Hanna.
[1] In 1854 he began publishing the complete works (in eleven volumes and edited by Sir William Hamilton; 1854-1877) of the Scottish philosopher and mathematician Dugald Stewart.
In the same year Constable launched the popular school series known as Constable's Educational Series (which featured such books as J. D. Morell's A Grammar of the English Language Together with an Exposition of the Analysis of Sentences, James Clyde's Elementary Geography and James Currie's The Elements of Musical Analysis).
[8][9] Some of the other notable works published by Thomas Constable included the Letters of Calvin Compiled from the Original Manuscripts and Edited with Historical Notes (1855), Giovanni Ruffini's novels such as Lorenzo Benoni Or Passages in the Life of an Italian (1853), The Paragreens on a Visit to the Paris Universal Exhibition (1856) and Doctor Antonio: A Tale (1858), and the earlier works of John Brown, M.D., such as Rab and his Friends (1859).
[18] It was also partly as a result of Thomas taking over the firm of his father Archibald Constable in 1833 after the bankruptcy of the previous decade that the Constable publishing firm would survive into the twentieth century as a major publisher of fiction and non-fiction books.