Publications of Thomas 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 by Thomas Bradford

  • Cobb, James. The haunted tower, a comic opera, in three acts, as performed by the Old American Company. Written by Mr. Cobb. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Bradford, no. 8, South-Front Street, 1794. ESTC No. W12671. Grub Street ID 321957.

Sold by Thomas Bradford

  • Harper, Robert Goodloe. Observations on the dispute between the Tnited [sic] States and France. Addressed by Robert Goodloe Harper, of South Carolina, to his constituents, in May, 1797. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Thomas Bradford, book-seller and stationer, no. 8, South Front-Street, 1797. ESTC No. W21328. Grub Street ID 331084.

Printed for Thomas Bradford

  • Buchan, William. Domestic medicine: or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines: with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practioners. By William Buchan, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. Adapted to the climate and diseases of America, by Isaac Cathrall. Philadelphia: Printed by Richard Folwell, for Thomas Bradford, no. 8, South Front-Street, 1797. ESTC No. W19789. Grub Street ID 329421.