Old England's Worthies: A Gallery of Portraits, FromAuthentic Copies, of the Most Eminent Statesmen, Lawyers, Warriors, Menof Letters and Science, and Artists of Our Country. Accompanied by Fulland Original Biographies, with Illustrative Woodcuts, and Twelve SplendidIlluminated Engravings.
London. Charles Cox. 1847. 1st Edition. Hardcover. folio, 35cm, 272p.,triple column, 12 lithographic plates, 12 engraved plates (72 portraits), text head woodcuts, index, dark green cloth, gilt decorated spine title,covers & edges rubbed, water-staining to lower corner (not affectingillustrations), very good (ds1) ~ Although the author is not stated inthis first edition, later editions credit prominent Whig politician andsometime Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, Henry Brougham, Ist BaronBrougham and Vaux (1778-1868), as the principal author. Over seventybiographies and portraits are included from Henry II to John Smeaton. Invivid colour, twelve chromolithos plates include: Chaucer; Shrine ofHenry the Fifth; House of John Knox, Edinburgh; The Shakespeare Jubileeat Stratford-Upon-Avon; Monument of Lord Bacon; Statue of Charles I atCharing Cross; Milton's Monument in St. Giles's Church, Cripplegate; OldPalace at Greenwich; St. Stephen's, Walbrook; Statue of Sir Isaac Newtonat Cambridge; Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse. Item #33939
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