Publications of Elizabeth Watts

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 Elizabeth Watts

  • Blackstone, William. Law tracts, by William Blackstone, Esq. Solicitor General to her Majesty. Containing, I. An essay on collateral consanguinity, its Limits Extent and Duration. II. Considerations on the question whether tenants by copy of court roll, according to the Custom of the Manner, Though not at the will of the Lord, are freeholders qualified to vote in Elections for Knights of the Shire. III. The law of descents in fee-simple. IV. The Great Charter and Charter of the Forest, with other Authentic Instruments: to which is prefixed an introductory discourse containing an history of the Charter. Dublin: printed for Elizabeth Watts, in Skinner-Row, M,DCC,LXVII. [1767]. ESTC No. N10423. Grub Street ID 433.