Publications of B. Franklin

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 B. Franklin

  • Sergeant, John. An abridgment of Mr. Hopkins's Historical memoirs, relating to the Housatunnuk, or Stockbridge Indians: or, A brief account of the methods used, and pains taken, for civilizing and propagating the Gospel among that heathenish tribe, and the success thereof, under the ministry of the late Rev. Mr. John Sergeant. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, M,DCC,LVII. [1757]. ESTC No. W1124. Grub Street ID 320422.

Sold by B. Franklin

  • The General magazine, and Historical chronicle, for all the British plantations in America. Philadelphia [Pa.]: printed and sold by B. Franklin, [1741]. ESTC No. P5099. Grub Street ID 56961.

Printed for B. Franklin

  • St. John, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke. The craftsman extraordinary. Being remarks on a late pamphlet, intitled, Observations on the conduct of Great-Britain, &c. Published by Caleb D'Anvers, Esq;. London: Printed for B. Frankl-in, in Covent-Garden, MDCCXXIX. [1729]. ESTC No. T34357. Grub Street ID 264675.