Publications of Charles Hitch

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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 Charles Hitch

  • Wood, John. Choir Gaure, vulgarly called Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, Described, Restored, and Explained; In a letter to The Right Honourable Edward late Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer. By John Wood, Architect. Oxford: printed at the Theatre in the year 1747. And sold by C. Hitch in Pater-Noster-Row; and S. Birt in Ave-Mary-Lane, London; by J. Leake in Bath; and by B. Collins in Salisbury, [1747]. ESTC No. T63382. Grub Street ID 288638.

Printed for Charles Hitch

  • Haywood, Eliza. Secret histories, novels, and poems. In four volumes. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood. . The third edition.. London: printed [by Samuel Richardson, Henry Woodfall and another printer] for A. Bettesworth, and C. Hitch, in Pater-Noster-Row; D. Browne, without Temple-Bar; T. Astley, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and T. Green, at Charing-Cross, M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]. ESTC No. T75387. Grub Street ID 298113.
  • Barker, Jane. The entertaining novels of Mrs. Jane Barker, of Wilsthorp in Northamptonshire. . The third edition.. London: printed for Messrs Bettesworth and Hitch, and E. Curll, 1736. ESTC No. N6580. Grub Street ID 47619.
  • Ward, Edward. Nuptial dialogues and debates: or, an useful prospect of the felicities and discomforts of a marry'd life, Incident to all Degrees, from the Throne to the Cottage. Containing Many great Examples of Love, Piety, Prudence, Justice, and all the Excellent Vertues, that largely contribute to the true Happiness of Wedlock. Drawn from the Lives of our own Princes, Nobility, and other Quality, in Prosperity and Adversity. Also the fantastical Humours of all Fops, Coquets, Bullies, Jilts, fond Fools, and Wantons; old Fumblers, barren Ladies, Misers, parsimonious Wives, Ninnies, Sluts and Termagants; drunken Husbands, toping Gossips, schismatical Precisians, and devout Hypocrites of all Sorts. Digested into serious, merry, and satirical poems, wherein both Sexes, in all Stations, are reminded of their Duty, and taught how to be happy in a Matrimonial State. In two volumes. By Edward Ward, Author of the London Spy. The third edition, adorn'd with cuts.. London: printed for Mess. Bettesworth, and Hitch, Ware, and Osborn, in Pater-Noster-Row; Hodges, on London-Bridge; Baily, in Mitre-Court, Fleetstreet; and Cummins, at the Royal Exchange, 1737. ESTC No. T125015. Grub Street ID 175188.
  • Salmon, Thomas. Modern history: or, the present state of all nations. Describing their respective situations, persons, habits, Buildings, Manners, Laws and Customs, Religion and Policy, Arts and Sciences, Trades, Manufactures and Husbandry, Plants, animals and minerals. Being The most complete and correct System of Geography and Modern History extant in any Language. By Mr. Salmon. Illustrated with cuts and maps accurately drawn according to the Geographical Part of this Work, by Herman Moll. . London: printed for Messrs. Bettesworth and Hitch in Pater-Noster-Row; J. Clarke under the Royal Exchange in Cornhill; S. Birt in Ave Mary Lane; Tho. Wotton over against St. Dunstan's Church, and J. Shuckburgh next the Inner Temple Gate, both in Fleetstreet; and T. Osborne in Gray's-Inn, M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]. ESTC No. N5082. Grub Street ID 34845.
  • Practitioner in the law.. The young clerk's magazine: or, English law-repository. Containing a variety of the most useful precedents of Articles of Agreement, Bonds, Bills, Recognizances, Releases, Letters and Warrants of Attorney, Awards, Bills of Sale, Gifts, Grants, Leases, Assignments, Mortgages, Surrenders. Jointures, Covenants, Copartnerships, Charterparties, Letters of Licence, Compositions, Conveyances, Partitions, Wills, and all other Instruments that relate to Publick Business. With Necessary Directions for making Distresses for Rent, &c. as the Law between Landlord and Tenant now stands. To which is added The Doctrine of Fines and Recoveries, and their forms. Together with Those of Common Writs, Affidavits, Memorials for Registring Deeds, &c. in Middlesex; as also a choice Collection of Declarations in the King's Bench and Common Pleas. By a practitioner in the law. London]: In the Savoy: printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq;) for Mess. Bettesworth and Hitch, at the Red-Lion in Pater-Noster Row, and J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass on London-Bridge, 1739. ESTC No. N14340. Grub Street ID 4222.
  • The British Apollo: in three volumes. Containing two thousand answers to curious questions in most arts and sciences, Serious, Comical, and Humorous; approved of by many of the most learned and ingenious of both universities, and of the Royal society. Perform'd by a society of gentlemen. The fourth edition.. London: printed by James Bettenham for Charles Hitch, at the Red Lion, in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXL. [1740]. ESTC No. N32741. Grub Street ID 21304.
  • S., J.. The shepherd's kalender. Or, the citizen's and country man's daily companion: ... To which is added, the country man's almanack, . The fifth edition, with additions.. London: printed for C H[i]tch; R. Ware; and J. Hodges, [1740?]. ESTC No. T220883. Grub Street ID 244388.
  • Ovid. P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon libri XV. Cum versione Anglica, ... Or, Ovid's Metamorphoses. With an English translation, ... By John Clarke, . The second edition.. London: printed for C. Hitch; J. Munby, and J. Mace, in Hull; and T. Hammond, in York, 1741. ESTC No. N19365. Grub Street ID 8782.
  • Haywood, Eliza. Secret histories, novels, and poems. In four volumes. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood. . The fourth edition.. London: printed for R. Ware, in Amen-Corner; S. Birt, in Ave-Mary-Lane; D. Browne, without Temple-Bar; C. Hitch, in Paternoster-Row; and S. Austen, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1742. ESTC No. T75388. Grub Street ID 298114.
  • Carter, Charles. The London and country cook: or, Accomplished housewife, containing practical directions and the best receipts in all the branches of cookery and housekeeping; such as boiling, roasting, pastry, pickling, jellies, preserving, confectionary, cakes, creams, cordials, syrups, English wines, &c. ; interspersed with many sovereign and approved medicines used by private families in most distempers; and illustrated with forty-nine large copper plates. By Charles Carter, cook to his Grace the Duke of Argyle, &c. The third edition, revised and much improved by a gentlewoman; many years housekeeper to an eminent merchant in the City of London.. London: printed for Charles Hitch in Pater-noster Row; Stephen Austen in Newgate-street, and John Hinton in St. Paul's Church-yard, MDCCXLIX. [1749]. ESTC No. T123911. Grub Street ID 174214.
  • Cheselden, William. The anatomy of the human body. By W. Cheselden, Surgeon to his Majesty's Royal Hospital at Chelsea Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the Royal Academy of Surgeons at Paris. The VIIth edition with forty copper plates engrav'd by Ger: Vandergucht.. London: printed for C: Hitch & R: Dodsley, 1750. ESTC No. N30405. Grub Street ID 19369.
  • A defence of natural and revealed religion: being an abridgment of the sermons preached at the lecture founded by the Honble Robert Boyle, Esq; by Dr. Bentley Bp. Kidder Bp. Williams Bp. Gastrell Dr. Harris Bp. Bradford Bp. Blackhall Dr. Stanhope Dr. S. Clarke Dr. Hancock Mr. Whiston Dr. Turner Dr. Butler Dr. Woodward Mr. Derham Dr. Ibbot Bp. Leng Dr. J. Clarke Archd. Gurdon Dr. Burnet Dr. Berriman. In four volumes. With a general index. By Gilbert Burnet, Vicar of Coggeshall, Essex. The second edition.. London: printed for Charles Hitch and Lacy Hawes, at the Red-Lion, in Pater Noster-Row, MDCCLII. [1752]. ESTC No. N8419. Grub Street ID 53325.
  • Pott, Percivall. Observations on the nature and consequences of wounds and contusions of the head, fractures of the skull, concussions of the brain, &c. By Percivall Pott, Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. London: printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, at the Red-Lion, Pater-Noster-Row, M.DCC.LX. [1760]. ESTC No. N10019. Grub Street ID 27.
  • Salmon, William. Palladio Londinensis; or, the London art of building. In three parts. I. Containing a demonstration of all the geometrical problems which are necessary to describe Squares, Circles, Ovals, Polygons, Arches, and Groins. The most approved Methods for Mensuration of Superficies, and Solids, applied to the Measurement of all Sorts of Artificers Works concerned in Building. The Prices of the Labour and Materials, of the several Kinds of Works performed by Diggers, Bricklayers, Masons, Carpenters, Joiners, Smiths, Plaisterers, Plumbers, Glasiers, Painters, and Paviours; with Directions for making an Estimate of the Expence of any Fabric, great or small. The Prices of all Sorts of Iron-Work: viz. Nails, and what each Sort ought to weigh. The Prices of Locks, Bolts, Hinges, Latches, &c. Axes, Hammers, Saws, Chizzels, Augers, &c. II. Containing plain and easy Directions for the Construction of the Five Orders Of Architecture, with their several Pedestals, Columns, and Entablatures, accurately descri. The sixth edition. With great alterations and improvements, by E. Hoppus, ... London: printed for C. Hitch, L. Haws, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, S. Crowder and Co. T. Longman, B. Law, E. Dilly, C. Ware and Co. and A. Ward, 1762. ESTC No. N11249. Grub Street ID 1245.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by Charles Hitch

  • Multum in parvo, or, the jubilee of jubilees. Being a description of the great millenium, or, kingdom of Christ on earth; ... With a description of the new heaven, the new earth, and the new Jerusalem; ... Together, with an humble and serious search or inquiry into the doctrines of election, and reprobatation [sic]; . London: printed and sold by Mess. Bettesworth and Hitch, R. Ford and R. Hett; and T. Warren, in Birmingham, 1732. ESTC No. T93748. Grub Street ID 313397.
  • Hell's everlasting flames avoided: Heaven's eternal felicities enjoyed. Containing the Penitent Sinner's sad Lamentation for the Deplorableness of his Impious Life. With a short View of the Terrors of the Damned in Hell; and his holy Resolutions to a thorough Reformation: With some Considerations upon the Glory of the Saints in Heaven. Also Holy Preparations to a worthy Receiving of the Lords 'supper: With devout Prayers, Praises and Thanksgivings, upon several Occasions; with Graces before and after Meat. The five and thirtieth edition. By John Hayward, D.D. London: printed and sold by Mess: Bettesworth, Hitch and Osborn, in Paternoster-Row, and J. Hodges, on London Bridge, 1733. ESTC No. T36084. Grub Street ID 266057.