Publications of William 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 William Adams

  • Cato.. Two letters, the one concerning the present sentiments of the people of Great Britain, particularly with respect to Mr. Knight, late cashier of the South Sea Company. The other containing a comparison between the suicide of the ancient Romans and that so frequent of late among the English. The former directed to the author of The London journal. The latter directed to Mr. Mist. Edinburgh: reprinted by W. Adams, an. Dom., 1721. ESTC No. T180047. Grub Street ID 216726.
  • A short view of the difference between the liturgy of the Church of Scotland, printed in the year 1637, and that commonly used in the Church of England. Edinburgh: printed by William Adams: anno Dom., 1725. ESTC No. T174099. Grub Street ID 211205.

Author

  • Adams, William. A letter from the country containing some remarks concerning the National Covenant and Solemn League. In answer to late pamphlet, entituled, Lawful prejudices against an incorporating union with England. Edinburgh: printed in the year, 1707. ESTC No. N20585. Grub Street ID 9984.
  • Adams, William. A second letter from the country, in vindication of the former concerning the National Covenant and Solemn League: in answer to a pamphlet entituled, Lawful prejudices against an incorporating union with England. [Edinburgh]: Printed in the year, 1707. ESTC No. T195883. Grub Street ID 229449.