Typographical antiquities; . or the history of printing in England Scotland and Ireland: containing memoirs of our ancient printers, and a register of the books printed by them. Begun by the late Joseph Ames, F.R. & A.SS. Considerably augmented by William Herbert, of Cheshunt, Herts; and now greatly enlarged, with copious notes, and illustrated with appropriate engravings; comprehending the history of English literature, and a view of the progress of the art of engraving, in Great Britain; by the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin.
Joseph Ames (1689 - 1759)
Category
Books
Date
1810 - 1819
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3088417
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v . ill..,facsims..,ports. . 4to.. Previous pressmark: I [or J]7. With manuscript notes in the hand of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan. With an advertisement for a facsimile of Caxton's Statutes, published by John Camden Hotten, bound in at p. 354 of vol. I. With directions to the binder in vols. I, III and IV.. Provenance: manuscript inscription on half-title of vol. I: W.C. Trevelyan Harrow School 1815. Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Half leather; marbled endpapers and edges; red and black spine labels.
Makers and roles
Joseph Ames (1689 - 1759) Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847) William Herbert (1718-1795)