A.P. Watt & Son

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A.P. Watt & Son

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  • A. P. Watt & Son

  • AP Watt & Son

  • A.P. Watt and Son

  • A. P. Watt and Son

  • AP Watt and Son

  • A.P. Watt Ltd.

  • A. P. Watt Ltd.

  • AP Watt Ltd.

  • A.P. Watt & Son Limited

  • A. P. Watt & Son Limited

  • AP Watt & Son Limited

  • A.P. Watt & Son Ltd.

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      Dates of existence

      1975-

      History

      A.P. Watt and Son is a British literary agency. It was founded in 1875 by Alexander Pollock Watt.
      A.P. Watt the world's first literary agency and was the largest for its first thirty years of operation. Alexander Pollock Watt (1834-1914) began working as a literary agent in 1975 when a friend asked him to negotiate a contract with a London publishing company. By 1881, A.P. Watt had incorporated his business and begun to define the role of the literary agent. The A.P. Watt firm has remained in the forefront of the market in popular fiction and it has counted numerous important and/or best-selling authors among its clients.

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      London, UK

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