A catalogue of English printers, from the year 1471 to 1600
Subtitle: most of them at London
Contributors: Ames, Joseph, 1689-1759
Publisher: [publisher not identified],c1740?
Published: 1740
Place of publication: London?]
Language: eng
Subjects: Printing; Early works to 1800; History; Printers
Notes: First edition; cf. Printing and the book of Fifteenth Century England, by Walter Heilbronner, no. 44. Publication dated 1739-40 by DNB (v. 1, p. 355); for further evidence of a 1740 publication date, cf. Sotheby catalogue, 23/24 March 1970, p. 72 (lot 165, another copy of this title with Maurice Johnson provenance).

"As the History and Progress of parinting in England, from the year 1474 to the year 1600 [Ames's Typographical antiquities, London, 1749], is in good forwardness for the press; if any gentleman please to send the publisher, Jos. Ames of Wappin [i.e. Wapping], some account of these Printers ... the favour will be gratefully acknowledged"--Page 4.

For account of "the late Mr. Samuel Palmer's Mss." (p. 4; Palmer died in 1732)--cf. DNB.

Dated 1745 in the ESTC.

Rare Book copy: Annotated in contemporary ms.

Rare Book copy: Annotated.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T124805

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