Publications of Ch. Adams

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 for Ch. Adams

  • Brownlow, Richard. Brevia judicialia: or, An exact collection of approved forms of all sorts of judiciall writs in the Common Bench, as well measne process before appearance, as execution after judgement, with the several entries thereof upon record, with further process awarded thereupon. Useful not only for all clerks and attornies, but also for the most learned in the law, as shewing the whole series of legal proceedings in the said court, in all actions, as well real, as personal. Together with the returns of the said writs, and an exact table. Collected out of the manuscripts of Richard Brownlow Esq; late Chief Prothonotary of the said Court. London: printed for Ch. Adams, John Starkey, and Tho. Basset, and are to be sold at their shops at the Talbot in Fleetstreet, at the Miter, betwixt the Middle Temple Gate, and Temple Bar, and next the New Porch in St. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1662. ESTC No. R19936. Grub Street ID 77492.