Publications of Will. 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 Will. Bradford

  • Blood will out. Or. An example of justice in the tryal, condemnation, confession and execution of Thomas Lutherland, who barbously murthered the body of John Clark of Philadelphia, and was executed at Salem in West-Jarsey [sic] the 23d of February, 1691/2. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Will. Bradford, 1692. ESTC No. W1577. Grub Street ID 325248.

Sold by Will. Bradford

  • Keith, George. The Presbyterian and independent visible churches in New-England and else-where, brought to the test, and examined according to the doctrine of the holy Scriptures, in their doctrine, ministry, worship, constitution, government, sacraments and Sabbath Day, and found to b no true church of Christ. More particularly directed to these in New-England, and more generally to those in Old-England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. With a call and warning from the Lord to the people of Boston and New-England, to repent &c. And two letters to the preachers in Boston; and an answer to the gross abuses, lyes and slanders of Increase Mather and Samuel Norton, &c. By George Keith. Philadelphia: printed and sold by Will. Bradford, anno 1689. ESTC No. R6489. Grub Street ID 126832.