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Typographical antiquities : being an historical account of printing in England : with some memoirs of our antient printers, and a register of the books printed by them, from the year MCCCCLXXI to the year MDC : with an appendix concerning printing in Scotland and Ireland to the same time / by Joseph Ames ...

Accession number
PML 78409
Creator
Ames, Joseph, 1689-1759.
Published
London : Printed by W. Faden and sold by J. Robinson ..., 1749.
Credit line
Purchased, on the H.S. Morgan Fund, 1985.
Notes
1st ed.
T.p. in red and black.
"Subscribers names": p. [8]-[12].
Text is continuous despite pagination.
Signatures: pi⁴ a² B-4I⁴ (-4I4)
Includes indexes.
Library's copy lacking a frontispiece, errata page, and binder's instruction.
Early title pages tipped in as samples at pp. 300, 354.
Description
[12], 440, 451-598, [26] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., ports., facsims., 28 cm (4to)
Provenance
T.p. inscription: V. Gardner No 87.
Binding
Modern dark blue cloth.
Classification
Department