[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of Joseph Ames' "Typographical Antiquities" London: 1749

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(PRINTING HISTORY) Ames, Joseph. 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 MCCCLXXI to the 
Year MDC. With an Appendix Concerning  Printing in Scotland and Ireland to the 
Same Time. London: Printed by W. Faden. 1749. First edition. 4to. 
xii,598,(28)pp. Index. Illustrated with a copper engraved frontispiece, 7 copper engraved 
plates (1, a portrait of Caxton), and several text woodcuts (2, full-page). 
Title printed in red & black. Nicely rebound in full polished calf done in period 
style with gilt ornamented spine compartments.     $850.00 (trade discount 
allowed)
301 copies of this book were subscribed for and the list of subscribers “
shows that the book was supported by the leading antiquaries and printers of the 
day.” Bigmore and Wyman, BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRINTING, p. 6.

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