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Creator:
Ames, Joseph, 1689–1759
Title(s):
A catalogue of English heads: or, An account of about two thousand prints, describing what is peculiar on each : as the name, title, or office of the person : the habit, posture, age, or time when it was done : the name of the painter, graver, scraper, &c. ... / by Joseph Ames ...
Published/Created:
London : Printed by W. Faden, for the editor, and sold by J. Robinson, 1748.
Physical Description:
[4], 182, [2] pages ; 20 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NE265 .A5
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
With a final leaf of proposals for 'The typographical antiquities of England'.
P.179 misnumbered 170
Signatures: [A]² B-2A⁴ [2B]1.
Based on the collection of John Nicholls [i.e. Nickolls] of Ware.--Dict. natl. biog.
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 287
English short title catalogue, T69631
Book-stamp: Marquess of Sligo. With a note about acquisition in 1924. 22890835610008651
With armorial bookplate of Charles Rugge Price. 22890835610008651
Horace Walpole's copy, with his marks and notes. 22890835610008651
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day i, lot 106 (with Bromley, Gersaint, Heineken, Jennings, Richardson's Account and Two Discourses, and Smith), to Boone, £1.15.0; Sotheby's, 23 November 1888 (Robert S. Turner Sale), lot 48. 22890835610008651
Mottled calf, rebacked. Press-mark B.4.19, bookplate 1. 22890835610008651
Marks and notes in unidentified hands. 22890835610008651
Subject Terms:
Price, Charles Rugge, 1801–1866 -- Bookplate.
Sligo, George Ulick Browne, 6th Marquis of, 1856–1935 -- Bookplate.
Sligo, George Ulick Browne, 6th Marquis of, 1856–1935 -- Ms. notes.
Turner, Robert S. (Robert Samuel), 1818–1887 -- Ownership.
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 -- Bookplate.
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 -- Ms. notes.
Form/Genre:
Annotations (Provenance)
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Contributors:
Faden, William, printer. no_linkage
Robinson, Jacob, -1759, bookseller.
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