Publications of C. 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 C. Watts

  • Wood, Loftus. The valetudinarian's companion, or, Observations on air, exercise, and regimen, With the medical properties of the sea and mineral waters of Brighthelmston: By Loftus Wood, M.D. physician to the misericordia general dispensary. London: Printed by C. Watts. Queen-Street, Grosvenor-Square; and sold by T. Becket, near the Adelphi, Strand, M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]. ESTC No. T6691. Grub Street ID 291574.

Sold by C. Watts

  • Ken, Thomas. A short collection of prayers, formerly annexed to the liturgy of the Church of England to which are added prayers suited to the holy communion selected from the Manual of Bishop Kenn. Re-Published by Basil Woodd, A. M. Minister of Bentinck Chapel, St. Mary-li-Bone, Lecturer of St. Peter's, Cornhill; and Chaplain to the Right Hon. The Earl of Leicester. London: printed and sold by C. Watts, No. 9, Queen-Street, Grosvenor-Square; sold also by Rivington, Priestly, Martin, Meredith; and Squibb, Edgeware-Roal, 1796. ESTC No. T126235. Grub Street ID 176254.