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 for W. Bradford

  • Webbe, John. A discourse concerning paper money, in which its principles are laid open; and a method, plain and easy, for introducing and continuing a plenty, without lessening the present value of it, is demonstrated. Humbly offered to the consideration of the honourable representatives of the freemen of the province of Pennsylvania. Numb. I. [Seven lines in Latin]. Philadelphia: Printed for the author, by W. Bradford, [1742 or 1743]. ESTC No. W7826. Grub Street ID 356936.

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 1755. ... Calculated for the meridian of Trenton, where the Pole Artic 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 Market-Streets, [1754]. ESTC No. W100. Grub Street ID 319094.