Publications of W. Bradford,

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 and for, or by/for and sold by W. Bradford,

  • Ball, William. The New-Jersey almanack, according to the new stile; for the year of Christian account 1757. Unto which is number'd from the creation, by the oriental and Greek Christians, 7264 years. By the Jews, Hebrews and Rabbies, 7966 by the computation of W.W. 5765 being the first after bissextile, or leap-year. Wherein is contained: the months in the year, the increase, decrease, and length of every day, the sun and moon's rising and setting, the moon's age for every day, the lunations, eclipses, and judgment of weather, the planets motions and mutual aspects ... and Quakers general meetings,; ... Calculated for the meridian of Tren[ton, where] the pole arctic is elevated above the [horizon 40 degrees] 20 minutes, and a meridian of five hours [west from London;] but may, without much error, serve all [the adjacent places,] from Newfoundland to South-Carolina. By William Ball, [philomath.]. Philadelphia: printed and sold by W[. Bradford,] at the corner of Front and Mark[et-Streets], [1756]. ESTC No. W43655. Grub Street ID 353270.