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AMES, JOSEPH (1689–1759)

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AMES, See also:JOSEPH (1689–1759) , See also:English author, was See also:born at See also:Yarmouth on the 23rd of See also:January 1689. He wrote an See also:account of See also:printing in See also:England from 1471 to 1600, Typographical Antiquities (1749). 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. He earned the gratitude of subsequent bibliographers by disregarding printed lists and consulting the See also:title-pages of the books themselves. 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. See also:Editions of his works were published with added information by See also:William See also:Herbert (3 vols., 1785–1790), and T. F. See also:Dibdin (4 vols., 1810-1819). Ames's occupation is variously given. It is uncertain whether he was a See also:ship-See also:chandler, a See also:patten-maker, a See also:plane-See also:iron maker or an ironmonger; but he led a prosperous See also:life at Wapping, and amassed valuable collections of antiquities. He died on the 7th of See also:October 1759. His other works are catalogues of English printers, of the collection of coins which belonged to the See also:earl of See also:Pembroke, of some two thousand English portraits, and Parentalia (175o), a memoir of the Wrens, undertaken in See also:conjunction with See also:Sir See also:Christopher See also:Wren's See also:grand-son, See also:Stephen Wren.

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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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