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)

9781108077163, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 March 2015

640 pages, 23 b/w illus.
29.6 x 21 x 3.3 cm, 1.58 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 4 considers the lives and work of printers from Reynold Wolfe to Thomas Hacket.

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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.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]