Publications of J. Bedford

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 J. Bedford

  • Dupré de Saint-Maur, Nicolas-François. Milton's Paradise lost, or, the fall of man: with historical, philosophical, critical, and explanatory notes, from the learned Raymond de St. Maur. Wherein The Technical Terms in the Arts and Sciences are explained; the original Signification of the Names of Men, Cities, Animals, &c. and from what Language derived, render'd easy and intelligible. Also The Mythological Fables of the Heathens, wherever referr'd to, historically related; difficult Passages cleared of their Obscurity; and the Whole reduced to the Standard of the English Idiom. In twelve books. Embellished with fourteen copper plates. London: printed and sold by J. Bedford, at the Crown, in St. Paul's Church Yard, and C. Sympson, in Stone-Cutter-Street, Fleet-Market, MDCCLXVII. [1767]. ESTC No. T134627. Grub Street ID 183250.