Joseph Ames (author)

Joseph Ames
Gravura de Joseph Ames em Typographical antiquities; or the history of printing in England, Scotland and Ireland, 1810
Born23 January 1689 Edit this on Wikidata
Died7 October 1759 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 70)
OccupationBibliographer, antiquarian, merchant Edit this on Wikidata
Typographical Antiquities, 1749

Joseph Ames (23 January 1689 – 7 October 1759) was an English bibliographer and antiquary. He purportedly wrote an account of printing in England from 1471 to 1600 entitled Typographical Antiquities (1749). It is uncertain whether he was by occupation a ship's chandler, a pattern-maker, a plane iron maker or an ironmonger. Though never educated beyond grammar school, he prospered in trade and amassed valuable collections of rare books and antiquities.[1]

  1. ^ Tedder 1885, pp. 353–355.