Title: 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 Author: Lodge, Edmund Place: London Publisher: Harding, Mavor and Lepard Date: 1823-1835 Description: 12 volumes. With 240 steel and stipple-engraved plates; tissue guards. 10½x7, period diced calf, rebacked with modern calf, later endpapers. Handsome edition of Lodge's famous gathering of the most influential men and women of Britain from the 16th to 19th centuries. With the bookplates of Herbert Cecsinsky, English furniture scholar, in addition to those of John Langton on the rear endpapers. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear to cover edges and corners; light foxing/offsetting to some plates; very good. Item number: 202335
Title: 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 Author: Lodge, Edmund Place: London Publisher: Harding, Mavor and Lepard Date: 1823-1835 Description: 12 volumes. With 240 steel and stipple-engraved plates; tissue guards. 10½x7, period diced calf, rebacked with modern calf, later endpapers. Handsome edition of Lodge's famous gathering of the most influential men and women of Britain from the 16th to 19th centuries. With the bookplates of Herbert Cecsinsky, English furniture scholar, in addition to those of John Langton on the rear endpapers. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear to cover edges and corners; light foxing/offsetting to some plates; very good. Item number: 202335
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