Portraits Of Eminent Conservatives And Statesmen With Genealogical And Historical Memoirs..
Bound in original raised morocco, boards with blind stamped and gilt double borders; spine in compartments with raised bands decorated gilt. Binding signed, J. Kelly, Binder, 16 Gower Place. All edges gilt. Some wear and staining to extremities and foxing but otherwise a very good copy. Armourial bookplate.
£65.00
Details
36 FINE ENGRAVED PLATES
Publisher
George Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane.,
Place
London
Date
[n.d. but 1836]..
Synopsis
First series.
Item Description
Folio. 10.5 x 13.5 inches. Approximately 189 pp each numbered separately.
Illustrations
Illustrated by 36 engraved plates and by armourial engravings at head of each section.
Notes
Originally published in parts, a Second Series of this work appeared in 1846. Each of the 36 plates is followed by a biography of 2-12 pages. COPAC gives the editor as Henry Thomas Ryall (1811-67) who also engraved some of the plates (e.g. those of Wellington and Peel).
[Stock No. 22333]
Subjects
19th Century • Biography • Fine Binding • Government • History/Theology • Illustrated • Politics