Joseph Ames, an English antiquary, born in Yarmouth, Jan. 23, 1689, died Oct, 7, 1759. He was a ship chandler or an ironmonger in Wapping, London, and wrote a work entitled " Typographical Antiquities, being an Historical Account of Printing in England, with some Memoirs of our Ancient Printers." It was a valuable compilation, and made more so by the subsequent additions of Herbert and Dr. Dib-din. He was the author of some other antiquarian works, was a fellow of the royal society, and secretary of the antiquarian society from 1741 till his death.