INVENTORY #117734
A Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution: Consisting of Characters disposed in different Classes, and adapted to a Methodical Catalogue of Engraved British Heads.
GRANGER, James
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$100.00 CAD
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4 volume set containing 2 volumes of the full text. Intended as an Essay towards Reducing our Biography to System, and a Help to the Knowledge of Portraits. Interspersed with Variety of Anecdotes, and Memoirs of a Great Number of Persons, not to be found in any other Biographical Work. With a Preface, shewing the Utility of a Collection of Engraved Portraits to supply the Defect, and answer the various Purposes, of Medals.
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Publication Info
- Publisher: T. Davies
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1769
- Place Published: London
- ISBN: n/a
Details
- Condition: Good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
2 vols. in 4. [24], 280p; 281-580p; 303p; 305-567, [47]p. Frontispiece portrait of Granger in Vol. 1 part 1. Ex-library with bookplates, penciling and stamps on endpapers. Wear to bindings apparent with detached boards on all volumes. Foxing to endpapers and some pages. Some penciling in index (occasional check marks). Text clear. Would make for a nice, attractively worn set if boards reattached and spine refaced. Sold "as-is."