Author: Edward Evans
Title: Catalogue of a Collection of Engraved Portraits, the Largest Ever Submitted to the Public; Comprising Nearly Twenty Thousand Portraits of Persons Connected with the History and Literature of This Country. From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. With an Enumeration of the Circumstances Connecting the Most Eminent Persons with the Various Counties of Great Britain, Preferments of the Clergy, &C. Alphabetically Arranged with the Names of the Painter and Engraver, and the Size of Each Plate
Description: London, E Evans, [1836-53]. First edition. Cloth. Smart two-volumes containing a complete catalogue of British portraits by Edward Evans. First and only edition of this work, dated from Jisc. Complete with two volumes. Containing an extensive catalogue of engraved British portraits connected with the history and literature of Great Britain, the British colonies, and the United States of America, with biographical notices. By Edward Evans. In the original publisher's uniform quarter cloth binding over paper covered boards. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only. William Long's bookplate to front pastedowns. Internally, binding generally firm, however split to p. 416 vol II only. Pages generally clean with minor spotting to first few leaves and occasional minor mark to odd leaf. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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