Typographical antiquities: or An historical account of the origin and progress of printing in Great Britain and Ireland: containing memoirs of our ancient printers, and a register of books printed by them, from the year MCCCCLXXI to the year MDC. Begun by the late Joseph Ames, F.R. & A.S.S. and Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries. Considerably augmented, both in the memoirs and number of books, by William Herbert, of Cheshunt, Herts. In three volumes. ...
Joseph Ames (1689 - 1759)
Category
Books
Date
1785 - 1790
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3015211
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. : ill., geneal. table, ports. ; 4to. Running number: 7803. Provenance: subscriber's copy: 'The Right Hon. John, Earl of Buckinghamshire, late Lord Lieutenant of Ireland' in list of subscribers [i.e. John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire (1723-1793)]. Anonymous armorial bookplate (not listed in Franks) on verso of title page: arms of John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire (1723-1793) impaling those of his second wife Caroline Conolly (ca. 1755-1817), m. 1770, with Buck and Talbot supporters and earl's coronet. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on three sewing supports; five raised bands; double gilt fillet border; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spines, with floral stamps in roll pattern and stamped panels; gilt title on red morocco label and gilt author/vol. number on green morocco label on spines; red sprinkled textblock edges; nineteenth-century nonpareil pattern marbled endpapers and plain fly-leaves.
Makers and roles
Joseph Ames (1689 - 1759), author William Herbert (1718-1795), author Richard Gough (1735-1809), author Robert Laurie (London 1755 - Broxbourne 1836), engraver (printmaker)