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154 - Printing history.- Ames (Joseph) 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, 3 vol., list of subscribers, 3 engraved portraits and 7 plates, some spotting or foxing, lightly browned, 19th century calf, gilt, spines in compartments and with black leather labels (little chipped in places), vol.1 lower cover detached, all vol. joints split, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and marked, housed in a modern marbled card slip-case, [ESTC T139672], Printed for the editor, and sold by Mr. T. Payne and Son, Mr. Benjamin White, Mr. L. Davis [& others], 1785-1790; and an index to Dibdin's edition of the work, Bib Soc., 1899, 4to & 8vo (4)
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Printing history.- Ames (Joseph) 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, 3 vol., list of subscribers, 3 engraved portraits and 7 plates, some spotting or foxing, lightly browned, 19th century calf, gilt, spines in compartments and with black leather labels (little chipped in places), vol.1 lower cover detached, all vol. joints split, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and marked, housed in a modern marbled card slip-case, [ESTC T139672], Printed for the editor, and sold by Mr. T. Payne and Son, Mr. Benjamin White, Mr. L. Davis [& others], 1785-1790; and an index to Dibdin's edition of the work, Bib Soc., 1899, 4to & 8vo (4)
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