Portraits Illustrious Personages of Great Britain 1823!

Up for Auction

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,

By

Edmund Lodge, Esq. F.S.A

1823  

London

Printed for Harding Mavor and Lepard

W. Nicol, Printer Successor to W. Blume and Company

Bound by Mansell

Extremely Rare this set including 12 complete volumes

which is the most rare and scarce, most sets are a combined edition and only contain 6 complete volumes and they start at retail $1200.00 and are copyrighted at a later date (1835)

These Volumes that are up for auction are very scarce and rare dated 1823-1834

First edition with 240 biographies and portraits of well-known people taken from the pictures of Holbein, Van Dyke, Rubens, Tiziano, Lely, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Lawrence, etc. and engraved over china paper by the most outstanding contemporary english artists

What a beautiful set!

Nice thick half green morocco, gilt tops, gilt spine and border, raised bands on spine

Very Very Expensive

Amazing uncracked mint endpapers that are finely marbled shiny and immaculate

No messy inscription or handwriting

Nice clean textual papers on that special thick paper

Some of the portraits included are:

Elizabeth of York, Queen of Henry the Seventh ,Thomas Stanley, Earl Of Derby, Margaret Of Lancaster, Mother Of King Henry The Seventh, Cardinal Wolsey, William Wareham, Archbishop Of Canterbury, Sir John More Holbein, Sir Thomas More, Queen Anne Bullen, Queen Jane Seymour, Sir Nicholas Carew, Thomas Cromwell, Earl Of Essex, Margaret Tudor, Sister To King Henry The Eighth, Charles Brandon, Duke Of Suffolk, Cardinal Beatoun, Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey, King Henry The Eighth, Queen Catherine Parr, Thomas, Lord Seymour Of Sudley, Sir Anthony Denny, Edward Seymour, Duke Of Somerset, King Edward The Sixth, John Dudley, Duke Of Northumberland, Thomas Howard, Duke Of Norfolk, Lady Jane Grey, Henry Grey, Duke Of Suffolk, John Russell, First Earl Of Bedford, Nicholas Ridley, Bishop Of London, Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, Edward Courtenay, Earl Of Devonshire, Cardinal Pole Titan, Mary, Queen Of England, William, First Lord Paget, Edward, First Lord North,  Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, King Of Scotland, James Stuart, Earl Of Murray, Regent Of Scotland, John Knox, Thomas Howard, Fourth Duke Of Norfolk, William Powlett, Marquis Of Winchester , Sir William Maitland, Of Lethington,  James Hamilton, Earl Of Arran, Duke Of Chatelherault , Matthew Parker, Archbishop Of Canterbury, Walter Devereux, Earl Of Essex, Sir Nicholas Bacon ,S Sir Thomas Gresham, Henry Fitzalan, Earl Of Arundel, James Douglas, Earl Of Morton,  Thomas Radclyffe, Earl Of Sussex, Edward Clinton, Earl Of Lincoln, Sir Philip Sidney, Mary Stuart, Queen Of Scotland, Robert Dudley, Earl Of Leicester, Ambrose Dudley, Earl Of Warwick, Sir Francis Walsingham, Sir Christopher Hatton, Cardinal Allen, Sir Francis, Philip Howard, Earl Of Arundel, John, First Lord Maitland, Of Thirlestane, William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Robert Devereux, Earl Of Essex, Queen Elizabeth, John, First Marquis Of Hamilton, George Clifford, Earl Of Cumberland, Charles Blout, Baron Montjoy And Earl Of Devonshire, Thomas Sackville, Earl Of Dorset, Sir Thomas Bodley, Robert Cecil, Earl Of Salisbury, Henry Prince Of Wales, Henry Howard, Earl Of Northampton,  Lady Arabella Stuart Van Somer, Thomas Egerton, Viscount Brackley, Sir Walter Raleigh, Mary Sidney, Countess Of Pembroke, Thomas Cecil, First Earl Of Exeter, Henry Wriothesley, Earl Of Southampton, James, Second Marquis Of Hamilton, Charles Howard Of Effingham, Earl Of Nottingham, Lodowick Stuart, Duke Of Richmond, Francis Bacon, Viscount St.Albans

The engravings are thick paper

the pages are beautiful condition

each marbled endpaper is untouched

All pages (all 12 volumes) are tight and in binding

All portraits are bound on special thick paper

All text pages are clear concise

some portraits have foxing around the page edges or border, some are bright white with no foxing

some boards have light edgewear and rubbing

what a fantastic reference, the war uniforms, the "costumes'" the beautiful women-  Queen of Scotts, Queen of England, Mary , King George etc

WHat a fantastic look at costume, design, swords, hair, military uniforms.. great reference

100's of engravings

Light edgewear and rubbing boards covers

you will be pleasantly surprised

A fantastic set

Will make quite an impression in a library of someone who values art, intellect and Great Britain

Very hard to give up...

Bad Economy selling my goodies!

Great Value with No Reserve

YOu cant beat this PRICE!

Below i have taken many many pics..there are more in the book

Remember 12 VOLUMES

11 inches high

Over 35 pounds!

I tried to focus ..it very hard to show 1823 engravings up close

in Real Life there are very clear, defined and one of the most professional pieces of work i have ever seen

this is a not a collection but a MASTERPIECE !

Retails on the internet for up to $4800.00- the same set!

Excerpt from the book....

KING HENRY THE EIGHTH

Buckingham, the most powerful subject in the realm, was put to
death for having alluded to some remote possibility that he might
succeed to the Crown. This has usually been ascribed to the
resentment of Wolsey, who had a private quarrel with him, but
perhaps ought more properly to be considered as the commencing
article in the long catalogue of Henry's rapacities and cruelties.
Little remained of the great wealth left by his father, and the
attainder of Buckingham furnished a rich prize to an almost ex-
hausted treasury. It was indeed about this period that Henry's
character began to assume that deformity the records of which
have tended to cast doubts on the truth of history. Unemployed
for a short interval of peace, and burning for distinction where-
soever it might possibly be found, he burst forth suddenly the
polemic champion of that Church which he soon after found it
convenient to demolish ; attacked Luther, and the new doctrines,
with all the weapons of school divinity, in which he was well
versed ; and presented his book to the Pope, who rewarded his
apparent zeal by conferring on him the title of " Defender of the
Faith." He now received a second visit from the Emperor, and
renewed with him the treaty of the preceding year ; the promised
invasion of France followed, and passed over in comparatively
insignificant depredations near the coast in Britanny and Nor-
mandy. A war with Scotland, of the same inferior character,
succeeded, and was prosecuted with indifferent success for more
than a year. Henry's object in all his intercourse with that
country, either as a friend or an enemy, was to detach it from its
alliance with France, but his policy was not sufficiently refined to
deceive that deep-sighted people in negotiation, and his purse was
too weak to furnish the means of decisive warfare. It was now
that he began to raise money by forced loans, and by what were
called benevolences ; became perplexed and irritated by their
tedious operation ; summoned a Parliament and convocation,
and, finding them unwilling to grant him the supplies which he
required, awed them into compliance by threatening to cut off
the heads of those among them who most steadily opposed them-
selves to his will.....

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