Description: 1835Portraits of Illustrious personages of Great BritainEngraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobilityand the Public Collections of the Countrywith Biographical and Historical Memoirs of their lives and actionsEdmund Lodge, Esq.6 Volume Set containing two volumes each for 12 booksGood condition (see photos)Binding tightNo writingNo foxingDimensions: 12 1/4" x 9 1/2" x 2 1/2" (Each Volume)A lovely set complete in twelve volumes of Edmund Lodge's elaborate collection of eminent people in British history. Twelve volumes finely bound in six and gilt to the edges. Each volume is bound with its title page. Each biographical sketch is accompanied by a portrait of the person of interest. The history of the country, in memoirs of the most illustrious English nobility and great officers of state. The content is selected from the highest authority and the portraits preserved in the gallery of the nobility, descendants of the people represented, or in the public collections. The illustrations are painted by the likes of Holbein, Rubens, Vandyke, Lely, Kneller, and other great masters. Including biographical sketches of King Henry the Eighth, Sir Walter Scott, Queen Anne Bullen, Sir Nicholas Carew, Francis Bacon, Queen Catharine Parr, Robert Dudley, James Butler, Lord Paget, Francis Drake, and many others. All volumes bound with the 1835 title page. More than 200 steel engraved plates
Price: 950 USD
Location: Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania
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Binding: Leather
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Author: Edmund Lodge, Esq.
Publisher: Harding & Lepard
Topic: European
Subject: Biography & Autobiography
Character Family: Illustrious Persons from Great Britain
Original/Facsimile: Original
