biography
pronunciation:
[aymz]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1689–1759)
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| biography:
| Bibliographer and antiquarian, born in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, S England, UK. He became an ironmonger or ship-chandler in London, and at the suggestion of friends compiled Typographical Antiquities (1749), the foundation of English bibliography. |
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