# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-ames
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:12:52.577Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-ames"
name: "Joseph Ames"
slug: "joseph-ames"
description: "Joseph Ames 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."
tagline: "English bibliographer and antiquary"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Ames_-_Typographical_antiquities_(page_13_crop).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1689-01-23"
deathDate: "1759-10-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.802376
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "جوزيف أميس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "چوزيف اميس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ames_(author)"
    title: "Joseph Ames (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0%EC%A7%80%ED%94%84_%EC%97%90%EC%9E%84%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "조지프 에임스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ames"
    title: "Joseph Ames"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6281028"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump