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, Not to be Found in Any Other Biographical Work: With a Preface, Shewing the Utility of a Collection of Engraved Portraits to Supply the Defect, and Answer the Various Purposes, of Medals. By the Rev. J. Granger, Vicar of Shiplake, in Oxfordshire. Fourth Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected. London: W. Nicholson, et al., 1804.
[together with]
A Biographical History of England, From the Revolution to the End of the George I's Reign; Being the Continuations of the Rev. J. Granger's Work: Consisting of Characters Deposed in Different Classes, and Adapted to a Methodical Catalogue of Engraved British Heads; Interspersed with a Variety of Anecdotes, and Memoirs of a Great Number of Persons, Not to be Found in Any Other Biographical Work. The Materials Being Supplied by the Manuscripts Left by Mr. Granger, and the Collections of the Editor, the Rev. Mark Noble, F.A.S., of London and Edinburgh. Rector of Barning, in Kent, and Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Leicester. London: W. Richardson, 1806.
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Size: 164 x 255 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[(2), h.t., frontis, t.p., 10pp., i-xxi, 1pp., 407pp., (2)]; [(2), h.t., t.p., 436pp., (2)]; [(2), h.t., t.p., 420pp., (2)]; [(2), h.t., t.p., 446pp., (2)]; [2), t.p., iii-viii, 406pp., 1ff., (2)]; [(2), t.p., 1ff., 434pp., (2)]; [(2), t.p., 1ff., 523pp., (2)].
Uniform half calf bindings over marbled paper backed boards with black tooled labels and gilt to the spines. Bindings near fine with very minor wear, rubbing and scuffing as pictured, but generally excellent. All boards securely attached. Modern endpapers. Page edges toned and uncut, thus uneven at fore-edges. Text blocks generally very clean with light toning and some sporadic foxing.
[OCLC 560017933, 928072].
