Publications of William Bradley

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 for William Bradley

  • E., J.. Grammaticvs analyticvs tribus officiis fungens. (viz.) Partes orationes discernere. variare. disponere. Or, The analytical grammarian, teaching three things necessary to the acquiring the Latine tongue. (viz.) To know vary dispose the parts of speech. Composed for the use of the Free-School, lately founded in East-Smith-Field neer London. London: printed by Thomas Milbourn, for Will. Bradley at the Three Bibles in the Minories, 1670. ESTC No. R31397. Grub Street ID 114194.
  • Printall, Henry. A list of the English captives taken by the pyrates of Argier, made publick for the benefit of those that relations have there. London: printed for VVilliam Bradley at the Three Bibles in the Minories near Goodmans Gate, 1670. ESTC No. R224392. Grub Street ID 98047.
  • Thrasher, William. Jubar astrologicum, or a true astrological guide: divided into two parts. The first is an exact and easie way for the beginning or entering into this art: shewing the names and nature of the signs, panets and aspects; the erecting of a figure by tables of houses, by tables of right and oblique-ascention, the doctrine of triangles, or by the plain scale by help of the line of chords only, for any latitude either north or south; very useful for seamen or any other travelers; with the whole instructions necessary to this art. The second sheweth a very plain and easie way to give judgement upon an astrological figure, concerning the transaction of humane life, viz. of the state of the body, riches, brethren, fathers, children, sickness, marriage, death, long journeys or voyages, honour, friends, imprisonment, or any other question whatsoever may be answered. With the true art of directions by the doctrine of triangles, very useful in nativitie. Whereunto is added an example upon every house, vi. London: printed by J. Darby, for William Bradley, and are to be sold as his shop at the Three Bibles in the Minories, 1671. ESTC No. R222198. Grub Street ID 96229.