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Creator:
Ames, Joseph, 1689–1759
Title(s):
Typographical antiquities, or, The history of printing in England, Scotland and Ireland : containing memoirs of our ancient printers, and a register of the books printed by them / begun by the late Joseph Ames ... considerably augmented by William Herbert ... and now greatly enlarged with copious notes, and illustrated with appropriate engravings ; comprehending the history of English literature, and a view of the progress of the art of engraving in Great Britain by the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin ...
Published/Created:
London : Printed for William Miller ..., by William Savage ..., 1810-1819.
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 29 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Z151 .A512+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
Z151 .A512+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Illustrations engraved by Henry Hoppner Meyer, Thomas Hodgetts and William Say; after Henry Edridge, Thomas Cook, George Romney, and Sir William Beechey.
British Art Center has 2 copies. Copy 1 is small paper copy (29 cm.), bound in 4 vols., in olive morocco and elaborately tooled in gold, with gauffered edges. Vol 1 has t.p. with imprint that reads: London : Printed for William Miller ..., by William Savage ..., 1810.
Copy 2 is large paper copy (38 cm.) and is bound in 8 vols. Vol. 1 has t.p. with imprint that reads: London : Printed by William Savage ..., for William Miller ..., [n.d.].
Copy 2 belonged to the Minto family and has the bookplate of Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence.
Vols. 1-2 published 1810-12; v. 3, 1816, by J. Murray; v. 4, 1819, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
"Memoirs of Joseph Ames" by ... Richard Gough: v. 1, p. 19-51. "Some account of William Herbert" by the editor: v. 1, p. 71-95. "List of authors consulted and referred to": v. 1, p. 375-379.
Subject Terms:
Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L. (Harry Lawrence) -- Bookplate.
Bulmer (W.) and Co. -- Printer.
Engraving -- Great Britain.
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown -- Publisher.
Miller, William -- Publisher.
Minto family -- Provenance.
Murray, John -- Publisher.
Printers -- Great Britain.
Printing -- Great Britain -- History.
Savage, William -- Printer.
Form/Genre:
Mezzotints -- 1810-1819.
Etchings -- 1810-1819.
Stipple engravings -- 1810-1819.
Woodcuts -- 1810-1819.
Wood engravings -- 1810-1819.
Contributors:
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776–1847.
Herbert, William, 1718–1795.
Gough, Richard, 1735–1809.
Meyer, Henry Hoppner, 1783–1847, engraver.
Hodgetts, Thomas, active 1801–1846, engraver.
Say, William, 1768–1834, engraver.
Edridge, Henry, 1769–1821, ill.
Cook, Thomas, approximately 1744–1818, ill.
Romney, George, 1734–1802, ill.
Beechey, William, Sir, 1753–1839, ill.
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