Typographical Antiquities 4 Volume Set: Or, The History of Printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland(Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries)

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. The lives of Ames and Herbert are followed by discussions of printers from Caxton to Thomas Hacket.

Table of Contents:
Volume 1: Advertisement; List of subscribers; 1. Ames's preface; 2. Memoirs of Ames; 3. Herbert's preface; 4. Some account of Herbert; 5. Preliminary disquisition; 6. Some account of the life of Caxton; 7. Books printed by Caxton; 8. Supplement; 9. Index. Volume 2: Advertisement; 1. Account of books printed by John Lettou; 2. John Lettou and William Machlinia; 3. Account of books printed by William Machlinia; 4. Wynken de Worde; 5. Richard Pynson; 6. Julian Notary; Addenda; Index. Volume 3: Advertisement; 1. William Faques; 2. Henry Pepwell; 3. Peter Treveris; 4. James Nicholson; 5. John Redman; 6. Christopher Truthall; 7. Thomas Godfray; 8. John Skot; 9. John Rastell; 10. Robert Copland; 11. William Copland; 12. Robert Wyer; 13. Robert Redman and Elizabeth Redman; 14. Richard Bankes; 15. Laurence Andrewe; 16. John Reynes; 17. Thomas Berthelet; 18. Richard Fawkes; 19. John Haukins; 20. William Rastell; 21. John Toye; 22. John Byddell; 23. Thomas Gibson; 24. John Gowghe; 25. William Marshall; 26. Richard Grafton; 27. Edward Whitchurch; 28. William Baldwin; 29. Thomas Petit; 30. John Wayland; 31. Andrew Hester; 32. Michael Lobley; 33. John Mayler; 34. William Middleton; 35. John Herforde and his family; 36. Thomas Raynald; 37. Robert Toy and his widow; 38. Richard Lant; 39. William Bonham; 40. Leonard Askell; 41. Nicholas Bourman; Index. Volume 4: Advertisement; 1. Reynold Wolfe and his widow; 2. William Follingham or Follington; 3. John Day; 4. Richard Day; 5. Timothy Rider; 6. Henry Disle; 7. Robert Redbourne; 8. William Seres; 9. Henry Smyth; 10. Nicholas Hyll; 11. Richard and John Wyer; 12. Richard and Joan Jugge; 13. John and Robert Walley; 14. William Powell; 15. Hugh Singleton; 16. Richard Kele; 17. Anthony Scoloker; 18. Humphrey Powell; 19. Robert Stoughton; 20. Gualter Lynne; 21. William Hill; 22. Robert Crowley; 23. John Kynge; 24. William Tilly; 25. Thomas Gualtier; 26. John Tysdall; 27. Stephen Myerdman, John Case, Richard Charlton, John Turk; 28. Abraham Veale; 29. John Wight; 30. John Cawood; 31. William Riddell; 32. Rowland Hall; 33. Richard Tottel; 34. Robert Caley; 35. John Kingston; 36. Henry Sutton; 37. Thomas Marshe; 38. Thomas Geminie, or Gemini; 39. Anthony Kidson, or Kytson; 40. Thomas Powell, or Powel; 41. Owen Rogers, or Ap-Rogers; 42. William Norton; 43. Richard Adams; 44. Richard Harrison; 45. David Moptid and John Mather; 46. John Sampson, alias Awdeley; 47. John Allde; 48. Thomas Hacket; Index.