A supplement, consisting of corrections and large additions, to A biographical history of England, . [...] and a list of curious portraits of eminent persons not yet engraved, communicated, by the Honourable Horace Walpole, to the author, James Granger, [...].
The Reverend James Granger (1723-1776)
Category
Books
Date
1774
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3048878
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],536,545-547,[1]p. . 4to.. Identified in 1768 catalogue: O.3. (This entry is in the same hand as the rest of the 1768 catalogue but appears at the foot of p. 66, so conceivably was added later. It is described as Granger's biographical hist. Of engrav'd British heads. 4 Tom. This has been altered to 3 in a later hand. The four toms. probably relate to the 4 parts in which the original work was published, despite being bound in 2 vols.. The alteration to 3 probably relates to the fact that this additional supplementary vol. has been uniformly bound as vol. III.). Provenance: manuscript inscriptions to pp.227 and 545 detailing paintings owned by the earls of Stamford at Dunham and Enville [probably in the hand of George Harry Grey, 5th earl of Stamford (1737-1819)]. Bookplate on front pastedown: Armorial, Grey and Booth quarterings impaling Cavendish-Bentinck: George Harry Grey, 5th earl of Stamford & 1st earl of Warrington (2nd cr.) (1737-1819), pasted over an earlier Grey/Booth/Cavendish-Bentinck plate?. Binding: Calf; blind rolled; uniform with Granger's 'Biographical history'; spine numbered: Vol. III.
Makers and roles
The Reverend James Granger (1723-1776) Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717 - 1797)