The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain

Description

Title: The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain
Alternative Title: Lives of illustrious persons
Creator: Birch, Thomas, 1705-1766
Contributor: Vertue, George, 1684-1756 printmaker.
Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780 printmaker.
Published / Created: MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for John and Paul Knapton
Description: Title vignettes, engraved.
While vol. 2 was published in 1752, some large paper copies are dated 1751.
Two volumes bound in one; volume 2 dated 1751.
Large paper copy.
Laid in before page 25: two unidentified leaves laid in, with drawings on rectos and versos of elevations, floor plans, and a sketch of a column, one in pen and ink and the other in graphite. On the leaves is laid paper with a J. Whatman watermark, dated 18[...]. The other paper is wove.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Horace Walpole, with his bookplate (BP1). Sold at the Strawberry Hill Sale 1842, viii. 139, to Lilly, £6 [London, 595]; Marks & Co. From the collection of Mrs. Van Der Elst), January 1960, to W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 2 v. : 53 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Biography
Portraits
Drawings British
Engravings England London 1740-1750
Elevations
Floor plans
Portrait prints
Material: ports. ;
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Great Britain
Subject (Topic): Portraits
Subjects: Portraits > Great Britain
Great Britain > Biography
Great Britain > Biography > Portraits
British
England > London > 1740-1750
Tomlinson, Eleanor Parsons > Donor
Lewis, W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon), 1895-1979 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Bookplate
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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