Benjamin Bragg
(fl. 1694–1709)
Identifiers
Occupations
- Printer
- Bookseller
- Publisher
Names
- Benjamin Bragg
- Benjamin Bragge
- Benjamin Braggs
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)
BRAGG (BENJAMIN), printer and bookseller in London, (1) White Hart, Fleet Street, over against the end of Water Lane; (2) Blue Ball, Ave Mary Lane, near Ludgate Street; (3) Black Raven in Paternoster Row, over against Ivy Lane End. 1694-1709? Began business as a bookseller in Fleet Street in 1694, amongst his publications in that year being Miscellaneous Letters and Essays on several subjects ... by several Ladies and Gentlemen. [T.C. II. 512.] He then disappears from the Term Catalogues for ten years, his next appearance being in Hilary 1704, when he published An Account of the Proceedings of the Parliament of Scotland, May 6th, 1703. [T.C. III. 391.] He was the printer of a broadside entitled A New Express from Holland, July 12th, 1703, [Bibl. Lind. Broadsides, No. 840.] He had then moved to Ave Mary Lane, where he published several of Defoe's writings. In 1706 he moved again to Paternoster Row, and between that date and 1709 he published numerous books of all kinds. Dunton, whose Whipping Post he printed in 1706, has [p. 210] this character of Bragg: "He was formerly a Bookseller and is now a publisher in Ave Mary Lane. He has been unhappy ... yet ... is of a soft, easy, affable temper ... and being just in his dealings is like to have constant employment." Hazlitt notices several books without dates, with Bragg's imprint. [I. 165, II. 282.]