Typographical antiquities : being an historical account of printing in England: with some memoirs of our antient printers, and a register of the books printed by them, from the year MCCCCLXXI to the year MDC. With an appendix concerning printing in Scotland and Ireland to the same time (1749)
Ames, Joseph, 1689-1759 · London : Printed by W. Faden · leaf 12
T OTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE PHI LIP Lord HARDWICKE, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, THESE Typographical Antiquities Are with the greatest Humility Inscribedby hi sLordships most devoted and obedient Servant, JOSEPH AMES. THE P R A C … HEREAS it appears from reason andantient history, that in the mod earlyages of the world, mankind had indu-striously invented other means of com-municating their ideas, than merely by thevoice, not only that they might with freedomconverse at a distance, but also to enablethem to preserve and…
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