Author:Joseph Ames

Joseph Ames
(1689–1759)

Joseph Ames

Works

• A Catalogue of English Printers, from the year 1471 to 1600, most of them at London, (n.d.),
• An Index to the Pembrokian Coins and Medals (without date or place, (?1746), 8 pp., with device.
• A Catalogue of English Heads, or an account of about two thousand prints describing what is particular on each; as the name, title, or office of the person, the habit, posture, age or time when done, the name of the painter, graver, scraper, &c., and some remarkable particulars relating to their lives, (London: 1748)
• Typographical Antiquities, being an historical account of printing in England, with some memoirs of our antient printers, and a register of the books printed by them, from the year 1471 to 1600, with an appendix concerning printing in Scotland and Ireland to the same time, (London:1749). (external scan)
• Parentalia, or Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens, viz. of Matthew, bishop of Ely, Christopher, dean of Windsor, &c., but chiefly of Sir Christopher Wren, late surveyor-general of the royal buildings, P.R.S. &c., in which is contained, besides his works, a great number of original papers and records on religion, politics, anatomy, mathematics, architecture, antiquities, and most branches of polite literature, compiled by his son Christopher; now published by his grandson, Stephen Wren, Esq., with the care of Joseph Ames, (London:1750)

Works about Ames

• "Ames, Joseph (1689-1759)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Ames, Joseph (1689-1759)," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Ames, Joseph," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)