A Catalogue Of Engraved British Portraits, From Egbert the Great to the Present Time. Consisting Of The Effigies Of Persons In Every Walk Of Human Life; As Well Those Whose Services To Their Country Are Recorded In The Annals Of The English History, As Others Whose Eccentricity Of Character Rendered Them Conspicuous In Their Day. With An Appendix, Containing The Portraits Of Such Foreigners As Either By Alliance With The Royal Families Of, Or Residence As Visitors In This Kingdom, Or By Deriving From It Some Title Of Distinction, May Claim A Place In The British Series Methodically disposed in Classes, and interspersed with a number of Notices Biographical and Genealogical, never before published. By Henry Bromley.
London:: Printed For T. Payne, Mews Gate; J. Edwards, Pall-Mall; W. Otridge And Son, Strand; And R. Faulder, New Bond Street., MDCCXCIII.
Physical Description
xiv, [2], 479, [1], 56, [76] p.; 270 mm. (Quarto.)
Contents
[Blank leaf, t.p.] - Preface - Plan of the Catalogue - Sets, and Books of Prints, occasionally referred to in the following Catalogue - Contents - Note - [Text] - [Divisional t.p., 'Appendix ...'] - [Text] - Index - Index. Errata.
References
ESTC, T144063
R. Godfrey, Print-making in Britain: a general history (1978).
Reproductions
An electronic reproduction was published in 2003 (Farmington Hills, Mich: Thomson Gale). A microfilm copy was published in 1986 (Woodbridge CT: Research Publications).
Copy Note
Onto the front endpaper are pasted several extracts from booksellers' catalogues, relating to portraits.
Binding Note
19th-century brown cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Bromley's Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits', 'R.A.' and 'Mdccxciii'.
Subject
Celebrities - Great Britain - History
Engravings (prints) - Portraits - Great Britain - History
Catalogues - Union catalogues - Bibliographies - Reference books - Great Britain - 18th century