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.
Joseph Ames (1689 - 1759)
Category
Books
Date
1749
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3006019
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],440,451-598,[28]p.,[8] plates . ports..,ill..,music . 4to.. From A.8 (original Wimpole shelfmark, see 1842 catalogue), then A.2.31 (Hardwicke shelfmark).. Provenance: Dedicatee's copy: Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764). Sold by Viscount Clifden: slip from Sotheby's sale catalogue (lot 5) dated 22-7-37 pasted onto flyleaf. Letters detailing later provenance inserted loose: bought by Quaritch for Mr. H. Marx, Fairmile Lea, Cobham, Surrey for Đ5.10.0; "small north London bookseller"?; from whom to Dawson's of Pall Mall, 1978 catalogue 208 no. 5; bought by Lord Kenyon for Đ150; sold by Maggs Brothers to The National Trust, October 1996 for Đ4000 (at a Đ500 discount). Binding: Gold-tooled red morocco binding; insect border.
Makers and roles
Joseph Ames (1689 - 1759)