Abraham Bradley (d. 1782; fl. 1730–1782)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Printer
  • Bookseller
  • Stationer
  • Book Binder

Dates

  • Freedom: 1730

Abraham Bradley, printer in Dublin (1730–59); at the Golden Ball and Ring opposite Sycamore Alley in Dame Street (1730–31); at the Two Bibles and Ring / King's Arms, and Two Bibles in Dame Street (–1751); in King's Street / Frownes's Street (1760–62); at 33 Aungier Street (1763–81); Bradley and King, 1 Eustace Street (1782–3).

See Mary Pollard, A Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550–1800 (Bibliographical Society, 2000).

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775, by Henry Plomer et al. (1932)

BRADLEY (ABRAHAM), printer, bookseller, stationer, and bookbinder in Dublin, (1) "At the Golden-Ball and Ring, opposite Sycamore Alley, in Dame's Street"; (2) "At the Two Bibles in Dame Street"; (3) "At the 'King's Arms, and Two Bibles' in Dame Street" (after his appointment as King's Stationer). 1730–59. He was Stationer to the King in 1749 and printer to House of Commons in 1756.