Typographical Antiquities: Or, The History of Printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland - Couverture souple

Ames, Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108077161 ISBN 13 : 9781108077163

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

A four-volume work on the early history of printing, based on earlier books, and published between 1810 and 1819.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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. Volume 4 considers the lives and work of printers from Reynold Wolfe to Thomas Hacket.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108077161
• ISBN 13: 9781108077163
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 640
• Éditeur: Herbert William, Dibdin Thomas Frognall
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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