Typographical Antiquities : Or, The History of Printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland Paperback / softback
by Joseph Ames
Edited by William Herbert, Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries series
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Description
When this work was published, its original author had been dead for fifty years.
As the title page explains, the work of Joseph Ames (1687–1759) was considerably augmented by William Herbert (1718–95), and then 'greatly enlarged, with copious notes, and illustrated with appropriate engravings' by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847), several of whose other works are also reissued in this series.
Ames' history of printing, based on his own collection, was published in 1749, as an aid to booksellers in identifying old works (and modern forgeries).
Herbert, a printseller and bibliophile, acquired Ames' own interleaved copy of the work and intended to enlarge it, but died having completed only three of six proposed volumes.
His working copies then passed to Dibdin, who eventually published this four-volume edition between 1810 and 1819.
Volume 3 considers the lives and work of printers from William Faques to Nicholas Bourman.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:19/03/2015
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:640 pages, 5 Plates, black and white; 50 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:19/03/2015
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- ISBN:9781108077156
