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 by John Adams

  • Scheibler, Christoph. Liber commentariorum topicorvm, hoc est, De locis sive argumemtis logicis additi sunt duo indices, alter capitum, generalium titulorum, & quæstionum, in initio, alter rerum in fine / Christophori Scheibleri ... Oxoniæ: Excudebat H. Hall, impensis J. Godwin, J. Adams, & E. Forest, M. DC. LIII [1653]. ESTC No. R40637. Grub Street ID 122406.
  • Brerewood, Edward. Tractatus quidam logici de prædicabilibus, et prædicamentis ab eruditissimo viro Eduardo Brerewood, Artium Magistro, Collegio Ænei-Nasi, olim conscripti: nunc verò ab erroribus (qui frequenti transcriptione irrepserant) vindicati, ad pristinum nitorem, nativamque puritatem diligentissimâ manuscriptorum collatione restituti, & in lucem editi: per T.S. Art. Mag. & Collegii Ænei-Nasi Socium. Editio postrema, in quâ acessrunt duo ejusdem authoris insignes tractatus, prior de meteoris, posterior de oculo: limâ, luceque donati: per eundem T.S. Oxoniæ: excudebat Hen: Hall, Academiæ typographus, impensis Johan: Adams, 1659. ESTC No. R23163. Grub Street ID 103640.

Printed for John Adams

  • Scheibler, Christoph. Christophori Scheibleri, antehac in Academia Gissena professoris, et pædagogiarchæ, nunc tremoniæ in ecclesia superintendentis, & in gymnasio rectoris metaphysica, duobus libris vniversum hujus scientiæ systema comprehendens: opus tum omnium facultatum: tum inprimis philosophiæ & theologiæ studiosis utile & necessarium. Præmissa est summaria methodus, sive dispositio totius scientiæ. Et accessit pro?mium de usu philosophiæ in theologia, & prætensa ejus ad theologiam contrarietate. Additi sunt singulis libris indices duo: alter capitum, generalium titulorum, articulorum, in initio: alter rerum in fine. Quibus omnibus accessit exercitationum auctarium, de selectis aliquibus metaphysicæ capitibus. Per T.B. Art. Mag. & Coll. Reg. Oxon Socium. Oxoniæ: excudebat Guil: Turner pro J. Adams, 1637. ESTC No. S95057. Grub Street ID 153146.
  • Scheibler, Christoph. Christophori Scheibleri, antehac in Academia Gissena professoris, et pædagogiarchæ, nunc tremoniæ in ecclesia superintendentis, & in gymnasio rectoris metaphysica, duobus libris vniversum hujus scientiæ systema comprehendens: opus tum omnium facultatum: tum inprimis philosophiæ & theologiæ studiosis utile & necessarium. Præmissa est summaria methodus, sive dispositio totius scientiæ. Et accessit pro?mium de usu philosophiæ in theologia, & prætensa ejus ad theologiam contrarietate. Additi sunt singulis libris indices duo: alter capitum, generalium titulorum, articulorum, in initio: alter rerum in fine. Quibus omnibus accessit exercitationum auctarium, de selectis aliquibus metaphysicæ capitibus. Per T.B. Art. Mag. & Coll. Reg. Oxon Socium. Oxoniæ: excudebat Guilielmus Turner pro J. Adams, & væneunt apud Joseph: Godwin, 1637. ESTC No. S95058. Grub Street ID 153147.
  • Scheibler, Christoph. Christophori Scheibleri, antehac in Academia Gissena professoris, et pædagogiarchæ, nunc tremoniæ in ecclesia superintendentis, & in gymnasio rectoris metaphysica, duobus libris vniversum huius scientiæ systema comprehendens: opus tum omnium facultatum: tum inprimis philosophiæ & theologiæ studiosis utile & necessarium. Præmissa est summaria methodus, sive dispositio totius scientiæ. Et accessit pro mium de usu philosophiæ in theologia, & prætensa ejus ad theologiam contrarietate. Additi sunt singulis libris indices duo: alter capitum, generalium titulorum, & articulorum, in initio: alter rerum in fine. Quibus omnibus accessit exercitationum auctarium, de selectis aliquibus metaphysicæ capitibus. Per T.B. Art. Mag. & Coll. Reg. Oxon Socium. Oxoniæ: excudebat Guilielmus Turner pro J. Adams, & væneunt apud Joh: Westall, 1637. ESTC No. S95059. Grub Street ID 153148.
  • 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.
  • Hickman, Henry. Patro-scholastiko-dikai?sis, or, A justification of the fathers and the 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 A. Lichfield, fot [sic] Joh. Adams, and Edw. Forrest, 1659. ESTC No. R217506. Grub Street ID 92291.
  • Ames, William. Guilielmi Amesii, de conscientia. Et ejus jure, vel casibus, libri quinque. Oxonii: typis Gulielmi Hall, sumptibus Joh. Adams, anno Dom. 1659. ESTC No. R31264. Grub Street ID 114067.