The New International Encyclopædia/Ames, Joseph (1689-1759)

AMES, Joseph (1689-1759). An English antiquary and bibliographer, born at Yarmouth. He was in some sort of mercantile pursuit, and in addition to various other compilations published the Typographical Antiquities (1749), regarded as forming the foundation of English bibliography.

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