Publications of W. Bray

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 W. Bray

  • Modena, Leone. The history of the present Jews throughout the world. Being an ample tho succinct account of their customs, ceremonies, and manner of living, at this time. Translated from the Italian, written by Leo Modena, a Venetian Rabbi To which are subjoin'd two supplements, one concerning the Samaritans the other of the sect of the Carraites, from the French of Father Simon, with his Explanatory Notes. By Simon Ockley, Vicar of Swavesey in Cambridgeshire. London: printed for W. Bray at the East-End of the Inner-Walk of Exeter-Change, 1711. ESTC No. N39676. Grub Street ID 26960.