Typographical Antiquities: Or, The History of Printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland

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Joseph Ames William Herbert

Typographical Antiquities

Or, The History of Printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland

Joseph Ames, William Herbert, Thomas Frognall Dibdin

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Cambridge University Press
19 March 2015

Literary studies: general; Printing & reprographic technology

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries

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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. In Volume 1, the lives of Ames and Herbert are followed by discussions of printers from Caxton onwards.

By: Joseph Ames
Edited by: William Herbert, Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: Volume 1
Dimensions: Height: 299mm, Width: 210mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 1.680kg
ISBN: 9781108077132
ISBN 10: 1108077137
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
Pages: 676
Publication Date: 19 March 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active