Publications of Orion 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."

Sold by Orion Adams

  • Powel, William. Three letters. Letter I. An answer by Doctor Powel, to a letter from the Chancellor of the diocese of Chester, to let him know the fees due to his office, for the Acts and Instruments concerning his Institution to the Archdeaconry of Chester; and that he had sent his printed Letters (which he desired he would accept of as a Mark of Respect) to shew him the Justice of the Demand. Letter II. A reply by the Chancellor. Letter III. An answer to the the reply, by W. P. The letters are printed and published to save W. P. trouble of exposing them, (as he mentions) and to Appeal to the World; whether the Chancellor, or W. P. has lost his good Manners, his Senses, and his Christianity. With explanatory notes. To which is added, an answer paragraph by paragraph to W. P.'s letter, by Philalethes. [Chester]: Printed and sold by Orion Adams, at his Printing-Office in Northgate-Street, Claster, 1747. ESTC No. T225827. Grub Street ID 247581.