Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Ames, Joseph, 1689-1759

Title:

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

Copyright Status:

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

Subject Terms:

Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 -- Bookplate. | Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 -- Ms. notes. | 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.

Form/Genre:

Annotations (Provenance) | Armorial bookplates (Provenance)

Contributors:

Faden, William, printer. | Robinson, Jacob, -1759, bookseller.