Publications of Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth Adams

  • An alphabetical list of the names of all the freemen of the city of Chester, who polled (and for whom) at the general election for representatives in Parliament for the said city. ... July 1747. ... Chester: printed by Eliz. Adams, for John Page, [1747]. ESTC No. T77411. Grub Street ID 299538.
  • Linden, Diederick Wessel. A letter to William Hooson, a Derbyshire miner. Shewing the mistakes, and errors, committed in his lately publish'd Miners dictionary. With a preface setting forth the reasons for making the said publick. By Diederick Wessel Linden, M.D. Chester: printed by Eliz. Adams, and sold by J. Page; and by Joseph Gittins in Holywell, 1747. ESTC No. N19655. Grub Street ID 9075.
  • Cowper, William. A summary of the life of St. Werburgh. With an Historical Account of the Images upon Her Shrine, (now the Episcopal Throne) In the Choir of Chester. Collected from ancient Chronicles, and old Writers. By a Citizen of Chester. The Manuscript being given to the Blue-Coat-School, is published by the Treasurers for the Benefit of that Charity. Chester: printed by Eliz. Adams; and sold by the booksellers in that city, 1749. ESTC No. T65474. Grub Street ID 290390.
  • Miscellany poems, on moral subjects. Chester: printed by Eliz. Adams, for the author, MDCCL. [1750]. ESTC No. T222. Grub Street ID 245075.
  • A brief account of the martyrdom of K. Charles I. of blessed memory Containing, Some Particulars, Anecdotes, and Circumstances, relating to that unparallelled Deed. As Likewise, A Summary Account of those Regicides, who signed the Warrant for the Murder of their lawful Sovereign. Chester: printed by Eliz. Adams, in Fleshmongers-Lane, and may be had of the men who carry the Courant, [1752?]. ESTC No. T70190. Grub Street ID 293968.
  • Roberts, Hugh. Tair o gerddi newyddion. Yn gyntaf, Cerdd er dwyn ar gòf i ddynion ddyll y poennau y mae 'r enaid colledig yn i ddiodde yn uffern gida dysyfiad ar ddynion aniwiol ddychwelyd att Dduw iw chanu ar Grimson Velfett. Yn ail, Dechre cerdd ar loath y part y ffordd hwyaf o ymddiddan rhwng dynn ai gydwybod. ... Yn drydydd, Cerd iw channu ar Susan Lygad-ddy neu Black-Eye Susi,. [Chester]: Argraphwyd ynghaerlleon [sic] gan Elizabeth Adams, tros Petter Maurrice, Bala, [1760?]. ESTC No. T128759. Grub Street ID 178304.
  • The statutes of the General Infirmary at Chester. Thomas Crane, secretary. Chester: printed by Elizabeth Adams, 1763. ESTC No. N23435. Grub Street ID 12792.
  • A serious hint to the citizens and merchants of Chester. Chester: printed by Eliz. Adams, MDCCLXVIII. [1768]. ESTC No. T208080. Grub Street ID 237036.
  • Pennant, Thomas. British zoology. Illustrated by plates and brief explanations. Chester: printed by Eliz. Adams, 1770. ESTC No. T218336. Grub Street ID 242937.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by Elizabeth Adams

  • Deacon, Thomas. Manchester vindicated: being a compleat collection of the papers lately published in defence of that town, in the Chester Courant. ... Chester: printed by and for Eliz. Adams, 1749. ESTC No. T100756. Grub Street ID 154669.
  • The chester miscellany. Being a collection Of several Pieces, both in Prose and Verse, Which were in the Chester Courant From January 1745, to May 1750. Chester: printed by and for Eliz. Adams; and sold by S. Newton, Bookseller in Manchester; and M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row, London, MDCCL. [1750]. ESTC No. T166017. Grub Street ID 204258.