Adams, Roger
County: |
Cheshire |
Town: |
Chester |
Address(es): |
- |
Book Trade(s): |
Newspaper proprietor, Printer, Publisher |
Non-Book Trade(s): |
- |
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 |
Abbreviations | |
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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 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), pp. 7-27 Lloyd, Llewellyn C., 'The book trade in Shropshire', Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological & Natural History Society, 48 (1935-6), pp. 65-141, 145-200 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) Stoker, David, 'The Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue and provincial imprints', Journal of Printing Historical Society, 24 (1995), pp. 9-35 |