AMES (Joseph) & HERBERT (William): Typographical Antiquities; or an Historical Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing in Great Britain and Ireland: in 3 volumes. 1785-90. PP:V1- (iv) Title page & Dedication, iii (subscribers list), (I), xliv, (I), 1-684, (I) Index; V2- Title page, 685-1308, (ii) Index; V3- Title Page, 1309-1875, (I) Direction to binder. With 10 plates, including frontis. Contemporary full speckled calf, rebacked with later spines with blind stamped decoration and gilt lettering, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. Offsetting from the plates, library stamp to bottom of title pages and last page of each volume (no other stamp) (3)
AMES (Joseph) & HERBERT (William): Typographical Antiquities; or an Historical Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing in Great Britain and Ireland: in 3 volumes. 1785-90. PP:V1- (iv) Title page & Dedication, iii (subscribers list), (I), xliv, (I), 1-684, (I) Index; V2- Title page, 685-1308, (ii) Index; V3- Title Page, 1309-1875, (I) Direction to binder. With 10 plates, including frontis. Contemporary full speckled calf, rebacked with later spines with blind stamped decoration and gilt lettering, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. Offsetting from the plates, library stamp to bottom of title pages and last page of each volume (no other stamp) (3)
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