1835 Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility and the Public Collections of the Country With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of their Lives and Actions

Description

Early Edition, Fine Binding, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound

A lovely set complete in twelve volumes of Edmund Lodge's elaborate collection of eminent people in British history. Twelve volumes finely bound in six in a sumptuous morocco binding with decorations in gilt and gilt to the edges. Each volume is bound with its title page.

Each biographical sketch is accompanied by a portrait of the person of interest.

Originally published periodically in parts every other month. Each volume in this set is comprised of four parts each, for a total of twenty biographies per volume. 

The history of the country, in memoirs of the most illustrious English nobility and great officers of state. The content is selected from the highest authority and the portraits preserved in the gallery of the nobility, descendants of the people represented, or in the public collections. 

The illustrations are painted by the likes of Holbein, Rubens, Vandyke, Lely, Kneller, and other great masters. 

Including biographical sketches of King Henry the Eighth, Sir Walter Scott, Queen Anne Bullen, Sir Nicholas Carew, Francis Bacon, Queen Catharine Parr, Robert Dudley, James Butler, Lord Paget, Francis Drake, and many others.

All volumes bound with the 1835 title page. 

Collated, complete with two hundred and forty portraits. 

With a complete collation to all volumes bound in volume one.