Name: |
ADAMS, Roger |
County: |
Lancashire |
Town: |
Manchester |
Address(es): |
At the lower end of Smithy Door (1719) |
Book Trades: |
Printer, Publisher, Newspaper proprietor |
Non-Book Trade: |
Not known |
Trading Dates: |
1715 (before) - 1733 |
Biographical Dates: |
1681 (date of birth) - 1741 (date of death) |
Notes: |
Died 12 June 1741. Published Manchester News-letter 1719. Published The Weekly Courant Nov 1732>. Printed first book in Manchester (John Jackson's Mathematical Lectures) in 1719. Father of Orion Adams. Master of John Chapman 1720 and of Robert Warburton 1722. Moved to Chester in 1733. |
Sources: |
- Evans, D.R., 'A Preliminary History of the Booktrade in Manchester to 1851', unpublished (Manchester, Chetham's Library)
- Plomer, Henry R. et al, A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725 (London, 1922)
- Printing and the Book in Manchester 1700-1850, Lancashire and Cheshire Anitquarian Society (2001)
- Feather, John, 'Country Book Trade Apprentices 1710-1760', Publishing History, VI, 1979, pp. 85-99
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