2 vol. in one, atlas vol., 52 engraved or lithographed plates including 22 hand-coloured portraits, numerous hand-coloured wood-engraved coats of arms, modern morocco-backed cloth, original printed wrapper bound in, William Pickering, 1842. *** The first part of a rare 2-volume work published by the politician Henry Drummond at great personal expense. According to Warren ( The Charles Whittingham Printers, pp. 148-9), only 4 complete sets of this work were issued, although a second edition was issued in 1846. This volume contains portraits, monuments, busts, effigies, genealogies etc. of the familes of Ashburnham, Arden and Compton of Compton Wynyates and Castle Ashby, Cecil of Burghley, and Harley.
2 vol. in one, atlas vol., 52 engraved or lithographed plates including 22 hand-coloured portraits, numerous hand-coloured wood-engraved coats of arms, modern morocco-backed cloth, original printed wrapper bound in, William Pickering, 1842. *** The first part of a rare 2-volume work published by the politician Henry Drummond at great personal expense. According to Warren ( The Charles Whittingham Printers, pp. 148-9), only 4 complete sets of this work were issued, although a second edition was issued in 1846. This volume contains portraits, monuments, busts, effigies, genealogies etc. of the familes of Ashburnham, Arden and Compton of Compton Wynyates and Castle Ashby, Cecil of Burghley, and Harley.
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