Publications of Charles Adams

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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.

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Printed for Charles Adams

  • La Varenne, François Pierre de. The French cook. Prescribing the way of making ready of all sorts of meats, fish and flesh, with the proper sauces, either to procure appetite, or to advance the power of digestion. Also the preparation of all herbs and fruits, so as their naturall crudities are by art opposed; with the whole skil of pastry-work. Together with a treatise of conserves, both dry and liquid, a la mode de France. With an alphabeticall table explaining the hard words, and other usefull tables. Written in French by Monsieur De La Varenne, clerk of the kitchin to the Lord Marquesse of Uxelles, and now Englished by I.D.G. London: printed for Charls Adams, and are to be sold at his shop, at the sign of the Talbot neere St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, 1653. ESTC No. R11394. Grub Street ID 59685.
  • Goldesborough, John. Reports of that learned and judicious clerk J. Gouldsborough, Esq. sometimes one of the protonotaries of the court of common pleas. Or his collection of choice cases, and matters, agitated in all the courts at Westminster, in the latter yeares of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. With learned arguments at the barr, and on the bench, and the grave resolutions, and judgements, thereupon, of the Chief Justices, Anderson, and Popham, and the rest of the judges of those times. Never before published, and now printed by his original copy. With short notes in the margent, of the chief matters therein contained, with the yeare, terme, and number roll, of many of the cases. And two exact tables, viz. A briefer, of the names of the severall cases, with the nature of the actions on which they are founded, and a larger, of all the remarkable things contained in the whole book. By W. S. of the Inner Temple, Esq;. London: printed by W. W[ilson]. for Charles Adams, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Marygold over against Fetter Lane in Fleetstreet, anno Dom. 1653. ESTC No. R10354. Grub Street ID 58734.
  • La Varenne, François Pierre de. The French cook prescribing the way of making ready of all sorts of meats, fish and flesh, with the proper sauces, either to procure appetite or to advance the power of digestion : with the whole skill of pastry work. Together with a treatise of conserves, both dry and liquid, a la mode de France. The second edition carefully examined, and compared with the originall : and purged throughout, from many mistakes, and defects; and supplyed in diverse things, left out, in the former impression. With an addition of some choise receits of cookery lately grown in use amongst the nobility and gentry, by a prime artist of our owne nation. Written in French by Monsieur De La Varenne, clerk of the kitchen to the Lord Marquesse of Uxelles, and now Englished by I.D.G. London: printed for Charles Adams, at the Talbut neere St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, 1654. ESTC No. R26048. Grub Street ID 109406.
  • Plowden, Edmund. Critica juris ingeniosa: or Choice cases in the common-law, never published by any other author. Digested under alphabeticall heads by H.B. Esq;. London: printed for C. Adams at the Talbot near S. Dunstans Church, J. Starkey at the Mitre near Temple-Bar, & T. Basset in S. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1661. ESTC No. R217633. Grub Street ID 92401.
  • 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.
  • Leigh, Edward. F.lix consortium; or, A fit conjuncture of religion and learning, in one entire volume, consisting of six books: the first treating of religion in general; the false religions, and the true, and several questions also discussed concerning that argument. The second, of learning, the excellency and usefulness of it, the liberal arts, the chiefest languages, the universities and publick schools of several nations. The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth books, particularizing the men eminent for religion or learning, divine or humane, among the Jews, Christians, ancient or modern writers, protestants or papists, characterizing their persons, and giving judgment of their works. In an alphabetical order. By Edward Leigh Master of Arts of Magdalen-Hall in Oxford. London: Printed for Charles Adams at the sign of the Talbot near St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, 1663. ESTC No. R12761. Grub Street ID 60909.
  • Finch, Henry. Lavv, or a discourse thereof, in four books. Written in French by Sir Hen: Finch knight, His Majesties Serjeant at Law. And done into English by the same author. London: printed (by permission of the Company of Stationers) for C. Adams, J. Starkey, & T. Bisset, and are to bee sold at their shops, at the Talbot, at the Miter, and in St Dunstans Church-yard, in Fleetstreet, M DC LXI. [1671]. ESTC No. R177056. Grub Street ID 69320.