Publications of H. 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 by H. Watts

  • Fitzherbert, Anthony. The new natura brevium of the most Reverend Judge Mr. Anthony Fitz-Herbert. Together with The Authorities in Law, and Cases in the Books of Reports cited in the Margin. The Ninth Edition carefully revised, some Errors in the Text of the last Edition corrected, and the Writs accurately translated into English. By an able Hand. To which is Added, A Commentary, Containing Curious Notes and Observations on the most remarkable and useful Writs, which Illustrate and Explain many doubtful and abstruse Cases and Points in the Original. By the late Lord Chief Justice Hale. With a New and Exact Table of the most material Things contained therein. Dublin: printed by H. Watts, Law Bookseller, No. 3, Christ Church Lane. Of whom may be had a large and well chosen Collection of Law Books new and second hand, 1793. ESTC No. N10341. Grub Street ID 351.