| Name: |
ADAMS, Roger |
| County: |
Cheshire |
| Town: |
Chester |
| Address(es): |
None |
| Book Trades: |
Printer, Publisher, Newspaper proprietor |
| Non-Book Trade: |
Not known |
| Trading Dates: |
1724 - 1741 |
| Biographical Dates: |
1681 (date of birth) - 1741 (date of death) |
| Notes: |
Prop `Adams' Weekly Courant' (later `Chester Courant'). 1714f. Manchester (1715<-33); Shrewsbury 1715? Probably father of Orion Adams. |
| Sources: |
- Liverpool Bibliographical Society, The Book Trade in Cheshire to 1850: a directory (Liverpool, Book Trade in the North West Project, Occ. Pub. 3, 1992)
- Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
- 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)
- Lloyd, Llewellyn C., 'The book trade in Shropshire', Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological & Natural History Society, 48 (1935-6), pp. 65-141, 145-200
- Stoker, David, 'The Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue and provincial imprints', Journal of Printing Historical Society, 24 (1995), pp.9-35
- Isaac, Peter, 'The English Provincial Book Trade to 1800', in Printing and the Book in Manchester 1700-1850, eds. Cass, Eddie & Garratt, Morris (Otley, 2001), pp7-27
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