Book/Printed Material 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 Typographical antiquities / History of printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland / Half title of v. 1-4: Typographical antiquities of Great Britain

Title

• 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

Other Title

• Typographical antiquities
• History of printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland
• Half title of v. 1-4: Typographical antiquities of Great Britain

Names

• Ames, Joseph, 1689-1759
• Herbert, William, 1718-1795
• Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847
• Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• London : William Miller, 1810-1819.

Headings

• -  Printing--Great Britain--History
• -  Printers--Great Britain--Biography
• -  Early printed books--Great Britain--16th century--Bibliography
• -  Incunabula--Great Britain--Bibliography
• -  Great Britain--Imprints

Genre

• Autographs (Provenance)--DLC

Notes

• -  Vols. 1-2 published 1810-1812; v. 3, 1816, by J. Murray; v. 4, 1819, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
• -  "List of authors referred to": v. 1, p. [375]-379.
• -  Includes index.
• -  LC copy: Autograph: Herbert, William.
• -  LC copy of large paper issue sold at Sotheby's June 2, 1908 as part of the Maitland Club collection. vj15 2/8/85.
• -  Recat. to AACR2: vj56 2/8/85.
• -  Z151.A512 Copy 4 formerly shelved under: LAW LLRBR
• -  LAC tnb 2021-06-23 no edits (5 cards)
• -  LAC tnb 2021-06-02 no edits (5 cards)
• -  LAC tnb 2021-05-24 no edits (5 cards)
• -  LAC knj 2019-05-01 no edits (10 cards)
• -  Missing additional 500 fields. LAC knj 2019-05-01

Medium

• 4 v. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 29 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

• Z151 .A512
• Z151 .A512 Copy 2 Manuscript letters and illustrative matter prefixed to v. 1: (1) Charles Lyttleton to Joseph Ames, dated University college [Oxford] Feb. 29 [17]44 concerning licenses issued to various printers and publishers from Edward IV to Elizabeth; with seal, broken. (2) T.F. Dibdin letter to Dawson Turner, esq., dated Jan. 27, 1825. (3) Notice of the first volume of Dibdin's edition of Ames (columns 993-1002 detached from the Literary panorama, vol. x (1811 with a full page woodcut) (4) Mounted on the fly leaf, preceding the half-title, autograph signature of William Herbert, 1774; with extended manuscript note by Dawson Turner concerning the progress of Dibdin's edition of Ames, 1810. (5) Portrait of Dibdin, 1821, from an original private etching by Mary Palgrave (Mrs. Dawson Turner), inserted after the t.-p. Vol. 4 with: A list of early English printers and books. [London : T.C. Savill, Printer, 1880?]
• Z151 .A512 1810b Another issue. 39 cm. Large paper issue. Vol. 1 without date on t.p. Manuscript letters prefixed to v. 1: (1) T.F. Dibdin letter to Wm. Savage in which he critiques a specimen on vellum of Typographical antiquities. Undated. (2) T.F. Dibdin letter addressed to Mr. Savage allowing discontinuation of attempt to produce vellum copy of Typographical antiquities. Undated. (3) T.F. Dibdin letter to Wm. Savage, printer of Typographical antiquities (v. 1), praising accuracy of the sheets. Undated. Rosenwald copy.

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Rosenwald.002021
• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Rosenwald.02002021v02
• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Rosenwald.02002021v03
• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Rosenwald.02002021v04

Library of Congress Control Number

• 02002021

Online Format

• online text
• pdf
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/02002021

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