| Typographical Antiquities 4 Volume Set: Or, the History of Printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland Contributor(s): Ames, Joseph (Author), Herbert, William (Editor), Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (Editor) |
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ISBN: 110807717X ISBN-13: 9781108077170 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $300.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Publishers & Publishing Industry - Technology & Engineering | Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades |
| Dewey: 686.209 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishi |
| Physical Information: 6" H x 11.4" W x 14.2" (14.65 lbs) 2632 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. The lives of Ames and Herbert are followed by discussions of printers from Caxton to Thomas Hacket. |