Publications of T. 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 by T. Watson

  • W. R, a sufferer in the Fleet, and other goals.. The arbitrary punishments and cruel tortures inflicted on prisoners for debt represented and described, In several figures of the Uncommon and Dangerous Instruments used for that Purpose, Engraved from the Originals laid before the House of Commons, with their Explanations. Also a True state of all the other Miseries and Oppressions of Goals, Related in many Surprizing Cases; And shewing how they are now terminating in the Overthrow of the barbarous Goalers, and the Triumph of the suffering Prisoners. To which is added, copies of all the necessary Forms to be used for the Discharge of Insolvent Debtors. By W. R. a Sufferer in the Fleet, and other Goals. Enter'd according to Act of Parliament. London: printed by T. Watson, for T. Payne, in Pater-Noster-Row, and sold by A. Dodd, without Temple-Bar, at the pamphlet and picture-shops in town, and by the booksellers and printers in the country, 1729. ESTC No. T186486. Grub Street ID 222632.

Printed for T. Watson

  • The last newes from the Kings Majesties army now at Maidenhead: containing many remarkable passages, with Prince Robert his intentions. Also matters worthy of observation in and about the ctiies [sic] of London and Westminster, with severall proceedings of both Houses of Parliament to this present 11. of November. London: Novemb. 11. Printed for T. Watson and J. Jackson, 1642. ESTC No. R21639. Grub Street ID 91296.