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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)

Archive Print Item: BC Case 45/GRA

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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)

Level: Item

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

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