James Adamson (fl. 1686–1694)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 27202

Occupations

  • Bookseller

James Adamson, bookseller at the Angel and Crown, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1686–1694.

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)

ADAMSON (JAMES), bookseller in London, Angel and Crown, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1686–94. First heard of in 1686, when he sold the edition of Reliquiae Wottonianae , published by Tooke and Sawbridge. In the same year he published a Latin edition of St. Clement's Epistles to the Corinthians. [T.C. II. 179.] From this time his name is of frequent occurrence in the Term Catalogues. Amongst other works of note he had a share in Thevenot's Travels, 1687; the Latin edition of The Life of Cardinal Pole, 1690; and Geo. Ashwell's De Socino et Socinianismo disserlatio, 1692. His last book-entry occurs in Michaelmas 1694. [T.C. II. 534.]