TYPOGRAPHICAL ANTIQUITIES; OR AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, CONTAINING MEMOIRS OF THE ANCIENT PRINTERS, AND A REGISTER OF BOOKS PRINTED BY THEM FROM THE YEAR 1471 TO THE YEAR 1600. Begun by the late Joseph Ames, F.R. and A.SS., and Secretary the Society of Antiquaries. Considerably augmented, both in the Memoir and in the number of books, by William Herbert...Volume III.
London: Printed for the Editor and sold by Mr. T. Payne and Son, 1790. small 4to. modern quarter leather with leather tips, marbled paper-covered boards. 1309-1875+(1) pages, with one additional leaf of plates. Volume one and two only. The book collector and map- and bookseller William Herbert (1718-1795) owned Joseph Ames' (1688/9-1759) interleaved copy of the first version of this work, written by Ames and published in 1749. Herbert expanded the Antiquities to three volumes..... READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHICAL ANTIQUITIES; OR AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING IN...
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