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

  • Rush, Benjamin. An enquiry into the effects of spirituous liquors upon the human body, and their influence upon the happiness of society. By Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of chemistry in the University of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Bradford in Front-Street, four doors from the coffee house, [1784?]. ESTC No. W5143. Grub Street ID 354099.

Author

  • Bradford, Thomas. Bradford's catalogue of books and stationary, wholesale & retail, for 1796. Country store-keepers supplied with all kinds of books & stationary at his wholesale and retail book & stationary store, South Front Street, no. 8. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Bradford, no. 8, South Front Street, 1796. ESTC No. W1679. Grub Street ID 326290.
  • Bradford, Thomas. Bradford's catalogue of books and stationary, wholesale & retail, for 1796. Country store-keepers supplied with all kinds of books and stationary at his wholesale and retail book & stationary store, South Front Street. no. 8. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Bradford, no. 8, South Front Street, 1796. ESTC No. W34927. Grub Street ID 345596.