A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution: . consisting of characters disposed in different classes, ... Interspersed with a variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons, ... With a preface, shewing the utility of a collection of engraved portraits to supply the defect, and answer the various purposes, of medals. / by the Rev. J. Granger, ... Fifth edition, with upwards of four hundred additional lives. In six volumes. ...
The Reverend James Granger (1723-1776)
Category
Books
Date
1824
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3164612
Summary
Bibliographic description
Fifth edition. 6 v. in 3 ; 8vo. Uniformly bound and shelved with Noble's continuation (1806). Provenance: armorial bookplate (not listed in Franks) in all vols.: 'Almeric Hugh Paget. 1st Baron Queenborough'. Capital letter "R" written in pencil on front free endpaper in all vols. Pencil notes on verso of front free endpaper in vol. 1: "9 vols in 6 / Best Editions"[?], "Granger 300"[?] and bookseller's code. Pencil note on rear pastedown in vol. 1: "6 vols / BO". Number "442" written in pencil on title pages of vols. 1 and 2. Pencil annotations in all vols.; pencil text marking and additions to index in vol. 6. Binding: nineteenth-century half calf over brown morocco; blind rolled at edges of the calf binding; sewn onto five raised bands; red title labels: 'Granger's biographical history of England'; green volume labels; gilt top edge; orange endpapers.
Makers and roles
The Reverend James Granger (1723-1776), author