Publications of Joseph 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 Joseph Watts

  • England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.. A true and perfect collection of all messages, addresses, &c. from the House of Commons, to His sacred Majesty King Charles II. with His Majesties gracious answers thereunto: from 1660, being the year of his Majestie's happy restauration, until the dissolution of the Parliament, 14 August, 1679. London: printed for Joseph Watts, at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1685. ESTC No. R175252. Grub Street ID 68194.
  • Dorrington, Theophilus. Reform'd devotions, in meditations, hymns, and petitions, for every day in the week, and every holiday in the year. Divided into two parts. Ex aedibus Lambeth. May 7. 1686. Imprimatur, Jo. Battely. London: Printed for Joseph Watts at the Half-Moon in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1686. ESTC No. R200496. Grub Street ID 78001.
  • Dugard, Samuel. The true nature of the divine law, and of disobediance thereunto: in nine discourses, tending to shew, in the one, a loveliness; in the other, a deformity. By way of dialogue between Theophilus and Eubulus. By Samuel Du-gard, sometime Fellow of Trinity-Colledge in Oxon; now rector of Forton in Staffordshire. London: printed for Jos. Watts, at the sign of the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard, MDCLXXXVII. [1687]. ESTC No. R14254. Grub Street ID 62300.
  • Raleigh, Walter. The secrets of government, and misteries of state, plainly laid open, in all the several forms of government in the Christian world. Published by John Milton, Esq;. London: by George Croom for Joseph Watts?], Printed in the year, 1697. ESTC No. R9026. Grub Street ID 129146.