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

A four-volume work on the early history of printing, based on earlier books, and published between 1810 and 1819.

Joseph Ames (Author), William Herbert (Edited by), Thomas Frognall Dibdin (Edited by)

9781108077156, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 March 2015

640 pages, 55 b/w illus.
29.8 x 21 x 3.5 cm, 1.57 kg

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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1. William Faques
2. Henry Pepwell
3. Peter Treveris
4. James Nicholson
5. John Redman
6. Christopher Truthall
7. Thomas Godfray
8. John Skot
9. John Rastell
10. Robert Copland
11. William Copland
12. Robert Wyer
13. Robert Redman and Elizabeth Redman
14. Richard Bankes
15. Laurence Andrewe
16. John Reynes
17. Thomas Berthelet
18. Richard Fawkes
19. John Haukins
20. William Rastell
21. John Toye
22. John Byddell
23. Thomas Gibson
24. John Gowghe
25. William Marshall
26. Richard Grafton
27. Edward Whitchurch
28. William Baldwin
29. Thomas Petit
30. John Wayland
31. Andrew Hester
32. Michael Lobley
33. John Mayler
34. William Middleton
35. John Herforde and his family
36. Thomas Raynald
37. Robert Toy and his widow
38. Richard Lant
39. William Bonham
40. Leonard Askell
41. Nicholas Bourman
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]