Publications of Thomas Adames

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 Thomas Adames

  • Rainolds, John. The summe of the conference betvveene Iohn Rainoldes and Iohn Hart: touching the head and the faith of the Church. Wherein by the way are handled sundry points, of the sufficiencie and right expounding of the Scriptures, the ministerie of the Church, the function of priest-hood, the sacrifice of the masse, with other controuerises of religion: but chiefly and purposely the point of Church-gouernment ... Penned by Iohn Rainoldes, according to the notes set downe in writing by them both: perused by Iohn Hart, and (after things supplied, and altered, as he thought good) allowed for the faithfull report of that which past in conference betweene them. Whereunto is annexed a treatise intitled, Six conclusions touching the Holy Scripture, and the Chuch [sic], written by Iohn Rainoldes. With a defence of such things as Thomas Stapleton and Gregorie Marti haue carped at therein. London: printed by W. Hall for Thomas Adames, 1609. ESTC No. S115611. Grub Street ID 135302.