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 W. Bradford

  • Keith, George. The plea of the innocent against the false judgment of the guilty being a vindication of George Keith and his friends, who are joyned with him in this present testimony, from the false judgment, calumnies, false informations and defamations of Samuell Jenings, John Simcock, Thomas Lloyd, and others joyned with them, being in number twenty eight. Directed by way of epistle to faithful friends of truth in Pennsilvania, East and West-Jarsey, and else-where, as occasion requireth. [Philadelphia: printed by W. Bradford, 1692]. ESTC No. R14187. Grub Street ID 62232.

Sold by W. Bradford

  • Finley, Samuel. Faithful ministers the fathers of the church. A sermon preached at Fogs-Mannor. On occasion of the death of the Reverend Mr Samuel Blair, who departed this life July 5. 1752 [i.e., 1751]. By Samuel Finley A.M. minister of the Gospel at Nottingham in Pennsylvania. [Two line of Scripture text]. Philadelphi [i.e., Philadelphia]: Printed and sold by W. Bradford in Second-Street, MDCCLII. [1752]. ESTC No. W12082. Grub Street ID 321325.