The volume does not have a title page. Title taken from spine and head of page 1.
The pages are numbered 1 – 160 and 1 – 80. At the head of page 1 of each sequence: `The National Portrait Gallery.’ The volume comprises of 28 biographies of eminent British men, each preceded by a colour lithographic portrait. The first biography is of The Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P. There is a record for the Gladstone biography in the library of the University or Bristol which states that it is the first part in a series entitled The national portrait gallery, published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, in 1874. The second sequence (p. 1 of 80) begins with Alfred Tennyson.
At the end of each biography is stated: `The portrait prefixed to this Memoir is copied, by permission, from a Photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company.’
The lithographic plates are signed by ‘MacLure and MacDonald Lith.’ On some the address `37 Walbrook’ is given.
Contents
The Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, John Bright, The Earl of Derby, the Archbishop of Canterbury [Archibald Campbell Tait], Lord Justice Cockburn, Sir Garnet Wolseley, The Right Hon. the Earl of Shaftesbury, The Right Hon. Earl Russell, The Right Hon. Lord Cairns, The Right Hon. Earl Granville, the Duke of Cambridge, Bishop of Manchester [James Fraser], The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote, John Walter Esq., M.P., The Earl of Dufferin, The Rev. William Morley Punshon, The Duke of Argyle, Alfred Tennyson, John Everett Millais, R.A., the Dean of Westminster, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, M.P., the Rev. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, William Holman Hunt, The Right Hon. W. E. Forster, M.P., The Duke of Sutherland, Samuel Morley, Esq., M.P., The Duke of Richmond and Gordon.
Binding Note
Half-bound in blue leather. Titlted in gilt on spine: `National Portrait Gallery.'