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 4 considers the lives and work of printers from Reynold Wolfe to Thomas Hacket.
By:
Joseph Ames
Edited by:
William Herbert,
Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: Volume 4
Dimensions:
Height: 296mm,
Width: 210mm,
Spine: 33mm
Weight: 1.580kg
ISBN: 9781108077163
ISBN 10: 1108077161
Series: Typographical Antiquities 4 Volume Set
Pages: 640
Publication Date: 19 March 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Advertisement; 1. Reynold Wolfe and his widow; 2. William Follingham or Follington; 3. John Day; 4. Richard Day; 5. Timothy Rider; 6. Henry Disle; 7. Robert Redbourne; 8. William Seres; 9. Henry Smyth; 10. Nicholas Hyll; 11. Richard and John Wyer; 12. Richard and Joan Jugge; 13. John and Robert Walley; 14. William Powell; 15. Hugh Singleton; 16. Richard Kele; 17. Anthony Scoloker; 18. Humphrey Powell; 19. Robert Stoughton; 20. Gualter Lynne; 21. William Hill; 22. Robert Crowley; 23. John Kynge; 24. William Tilly; 25. Thomas Gualtier; 26. John Tysdall; 27. Stephen Myerdman, John Case, Richard Charlton, John Turk; 28. Abraham Veale; 29. John Wight; 30. John Cawood; 31. William Riddell; 32. Rowland Hall; 33. Richard Tottel; 34. Robert Caley; 35. John Kingston; 36. Henry Sutton; 37. Thomas Marshe; 38. Thomas Geminie, or Gemini; 39. Anthony Kidson, or Kytson; 40. Thomas Powell, or Powel; 41. Owen Rogers, or Ap-Rogers; 42. William Norton; 43. Richard Adams; 44. Richard Harrison; 45. David Moptid and John Mather; 46. John Sampson, alias Awdeley; 47. John Allde; 48. Thomas Hacket; Index.
