A biographical history of England from Egbert the Great to the revolution : consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads : intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system and a help to the knowledge of portraits : interspersed with a variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons... ; with a preface (v.1, pt.1)
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Type of record: Book
Title: A biographical history of England from Egbert the Great to the revolution : consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads : intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system and a help to the knowledge of portraits : interspersed with a variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons... ; with a preface (v.1, pt.1)
Classmark: BC Case 45/GRA
Creator(s): Granger, James (1723-1776)
Additional creator(s): Caulfield, James (1764-1826) (Other)
Related people: Caulfield, James
Publisher: Printed for W. Baynes and Son
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1824
Language: English
Size and medium: 3 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/287702
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002459559705181
Description
Large paper edition.
Edited by James Caulfield, cf. BM 90:510.
W. Baynes and Son issued two "fifth editions" in 1824, an 8vo ed. in 6 v., and a folio ed. in 3 v., cf. Lowndes (1881 ed.), II, 927.
NCBEL II, 1736, lists 5 eds. prior to 1824.
Includes bibliographical footnotes.
Includes index.
Additional description
Extra illustrated and elaborately bound by Rutland, Newcastle upon Tyne