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1823-1834 Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain
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Description
Illustrated, Leather Binding
The first Harding and Lepard edition. Complete in twelve volumes.
Uniformly bound in half morocco, with marbled paper covered boards.
This impressive work features portraits of eminent figures of Great Britain, accompanied by biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. Includes personages such as Sir Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey, King Henry VIII, Sir Francis Drake, William Cavendish and Queen Anne, among others.
Illustrated with two-hundred and forty portrait plates, with twenty plates to each volume. Collated, complete.
Compiled by Edmund Lodge, a long-serving English officer of arms and writer of heraldic subjects.
Vol I (1823)
Vol II (1824)
Vol III (1825)
Vol IV (1825)
Vol V (1826)
Vol VI (1827)
Vol VII (1827)
Vol VIII (1828)
Vol IX (1829)
Vol X (1830)
Vol XI (1832)
Vol XII (1834)
Condition
Uniformly bound in half morocco, with marbled paper covered boards. Externally, smart, with rubbing to the extremities and slight fading to the spines. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with scattered spotting to the first and last few leaves.
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