Publications of R. Watson

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 R. Watson

  • Grove, Edward. Mirth's madness, or, the vanity of mens laughter, and of their merry amusements in their idle hours. Consider'd in a sermon upon Ecclesiastes II. 1,2. (intended to have been preached in St. James's church in S. Edmunds-Bury, October the 8th, 1701. And now in Compensation of the undesign'd Disappointment that Day, for the use of those Persons of Quality and others, who resort to the Wednesday Lecture there.) By Edward Grove A.M. Rector of Chevington near Bury, in the County of Suffolk. Norwich: printed for R. Watson, Bookseller in Bury, and T. Goddard, Bookseller in Norwich, 1702. ESTC No. T10736. Grub Street ID 160379.