Publications of Hannah 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 Hannah Watson

  • Allen, Ira. Miscellaneous remarks, on the proceedings of the state of New-York, against the state of Vermont, &c. By Ira Allen. Hartford: Printed by Hannah Watson, near the Great Bridge, MDCCLXXVII. [1777]. ESTC No. W1221. Grub Street ID 321465.

Sold by Hannah Watson

  • Strong, Nehemiah. The Connecticut almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1778; ... Adapted to the horizon and meridian of Hartford, latitude 41 degrees 56 minutes north; longitude, 72 degrees 54 minutes to the westward of the meridian of Greenwich, (according to the latest observations) but may serve indifferently for all the towns in Connecticut. ... Hartford: Printed and sold by Hannah Watson, near the great-bridge, MDCCLXXVIII. [i.e., 1777]. ESTC No. W25568. Grub Street ID 335558.