Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Engraved from authentic pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility and the Public Collections of the Country with biographical and historic memoirs of their lives and actions.
London: Printed for Harding and Lepard, 1835.
Price: $2,500.00
About the item
With 240 engravings by various hands after Hoppner, Van Dyke, Holbein, Kneller, Lawrence, Gainsborough, Copley and others. 6 vols. 4to. Contemporary full red morocco, blind outside borders, gilt inner borders of floral devices, panelled spines gilt, a.e.g. fine.
Item #36333
An imposing set of volumes, each portrait accompanied by a short history of its subject.
