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NOTE1849

HERBERT AND DIBDIN'S AMES

By T. JONES.

BORDE'S BOKE OF KNOWLEDGE--BOWLAND'S CHOISE OF CHANGE--GREENE'S ROYAL EXCHANGE. Mr. Editor,--I am induced to mention the following misstatement in Herbert's edition of Ames' _Typographical Antiquities_, enlarged by Dibdin, not by its importance, but by its supplying an appropriate specimen of the benefits which would be conferred on bibliography by your correspondents complying with Dr. Maitland's recommendations. "Mr. Bindley," says Dibdin, "is in possession of the original impression of Borde's _Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge_, which was successively in the collection of West and Pear…

Topics: Bibliography, Typographical Antiquities, Literature

Locations: Manchester, Chetham Library, Selden Collection, Bodleian Library, London, Lothbury, Sainct Margaryte's Church, Fleetestrete, Cambridge, Holborne Conduite, Bridgewater House