Publications of Bradford, booksellers

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 Bradford, booksellers

  • Fernández, Felipe. A new practical grammar of the Spanish language: in five parts. I. Of the character, sound, and quantity of the Spanish language. II. Of the various sorts and classes of words, their declensions and properties. III. The syntax; the rules of which are explained in a copious and extensive manner. IV. An enlarged vocabulary; containing the terms of the parts of the human body, &c.; of commerce, navigation, war, natural history, and the various arts and trades. V. Familiar phrases and dialogues; select fables; with useful examples of the mercantile correspondence--carefully compiled from the best authors. The whole in Spanish and English, and calculated to render the study of the Spanish language easy, comprehensive, and entertaining. By the Rev. Don Felipe Fernandez, A.M. a native of Spain, and founder of the Royal Oeconomical Society of Xerez de la Frontera. Philadelphia: Printed by T. and W. Bradford, booksellers, no. 8, South Front Street, [1798?]. ESTC No. W13901. Grub Street ID 323264.