Publications of John 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 John Adams

  • Lyford, William. Principles of faith & good conscience; digested into a catecheticall form: together with an appendix; 1. Unfolding the termes of practicall divinity. 2. Shewing some markes of Gods children. 3. Some generall rules and principles of holy life. By W. Lyford, Batchelour of Divinity, and minister of Gods word at Sherborne in Dorsetshire. Printed at Oxford: by Leonard Lichfield, for John Adams, and Edward Forrest, 1652. ESTC No. R216649. Grub Street ID 91527.
  • Hickman, Henry. Patro-scholastiko-dikai?sis, or A justification of the fathers and schoolmen: shewing that they are not self-condemned for denying the positivity of sin. Being an answer to so much of Mr. Tho. Pierce's book, called 'Autokatakrisis as doth relate to the foresaid opinion. By Hen. Hickman, fellow of Magdalene Colledge, Oxon. Oxford: printed by Hen. Hall, for Joh. Adams, and Edw. Forrest, 1659. ESTC No. R29475. Grub Street ID 112449.