Shelfmark
Gi.2.03
Author
Title
The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain, engraved by Mr. Houbraken and Mr. Vertue. With their lives and characters by Thomas Birch ... .
Edition
A new edition.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for William Baynes, Paternoster Row, by Charles Wood, Poppin's Court, Fleet Street., 1813..
Physical description
iv, 216 p. and [108] leaves of plates : ports. ; 43 cm.
Note
Title page with engraving by H. Gravelot.
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Binding
18th-century calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with blind gilt rolls to form a border; transversal blind fillets on board edges and turn-ins. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt tools and titling ("Houbraken's heads"). Textblock trimmed and gilted. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.
Subject
Great Britain Biography Portraits.
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Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
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Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699 - 1773 engraver.
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Baynes, W. (William) bookseller.
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Wood, Charles printer.
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England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51139