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See also:JOSEPH See also:AMES (1689–1759)
, See also:English author, was See also:born at See also:Yarmouth on the 23rd of See also:January 1689
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He wrote an See also:account of See also:printing in See also:England from 1471 to 1600, Typographical Antiquities (1749)
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See also:Ames sent out circular letters with a See also:list of two See also:hundred and fifteen English printers with whose See also:works he intended to See also:deal, asking for any available See also:information
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He earned the gratitude of subsequent bibliographers by disregarding printed lists and consulting the See also:title-pages of the books themselves
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An inter-leaved copy of the See also:work with many notes in the author's See also:hand is now in the See also:British Museum
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See also:Editions of his works were published with added information by See also: See also:Part of his See also:correspondence in bibliography is included in See also:Nichols's See also:Literary Anecdotes and Illustrations . |
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