John Adams (fl. 1610–1673)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 6775

Occupations

  • Bookseller

John Adams, bookseller in Oxford, 1610–1673.

A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667, by Henry Plomer (1907)

ADAMS (JOHN), bookseller in Oxford, 1610–71 (?). A stationer of this name leased a tenement in St. Mary's parish in 1610, and in 1637 a house to the North of the Schools Quadrangle was described as "lately" in the tenure of John Adams, bookbinder. [Madan, Early Oxford Press, p. 276.] His name is found on E. Brerewood's Tractatus … logici, 1659.

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

ADAMS (JOHN), bookseller at Oxford, 1673. See Dictionary, 1641–67. Still in business in 1673, when he published Holyday's edition of Juvenal. [T.C. I. 135.]