Joseph Watts (fl. 16851692)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher

Joseph Watts, bookseller 1685–92; at the Gilded Acorn in St. Paul's Churchyard (1685); at the Half Moon in St. Paul's Churchyard (1685); at the Angel in St. Paul's Churchyard (1686–92).

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)

WATTS (JOSEPH), bookseller in London,(i) Gilded Acorn, St.Paul's Churchyard, 1685; (2) Half-Moon, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1685; (3) Angel, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1686–92. 1685–92. Began to publish in 1685, when he issued Sir William Davenant's Gondibert, bk. III, canto vii. (T.C. II. 114.] He made entries fairly frequently in the Term Catalogues between this and 1692, when he disappears.