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Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain
Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain
Harding and Lepard
Lodge, Edmund
1060
Twelve volumes complete, bound from the parts which were separately paginated, half calf and marbled paper over boards, smooth back, spine in three unequal panels, morocco title label to second panel, others with volute and drawer handle style tools, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled.
Minor wear to extremities, some wear to paper covering boards. Internally some light foxing to plates, usually around image rather than affecting image, generally fairly clean.
Each volume with twenty engraved tissue- guarded plates, for a total of two hundred and forty as called for, each plate is accompanied by a brief biographical essay of varying lengths.
An attractively bound set
4to
Good+
Half Calf and Boards
London
1835
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