The Biographical Magazine; Containing Portraits of Eminent and Ingenious Persons of Every Age and Nation, with Their Lives and Characters.

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96 engraved portraits of famous persons of the day each with a brief biography on a separate page. Includes Shakspeare, Handel, Dr Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick, Captain Cook, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Walter Rawleigh, Sir Christopher Wren, Alexander Pope, Jean Baptiste Rousseau, Locke, William Hogarth, Voltaire, Rousseau, Ben Johnson, David Hume, Edmund Spenser, Lawrence Sterne, Joseph Addison, Dr Tobias Smollett, Fontanelle, Archbishop Tillotson, James Thompson, Otway, Gray, Dryden, John Churchill, The Earl of Chatham, Dean Swift, Cardinal Wolsey, Lord Bacon, Congreve, Dr Hawksworth, Oliver Cromwell, Sir William Blackstone, Racine, Sir Richard Steele, Dr Goldsmith, Gay, Dr William Harvey, Richardson, Lord Anson. The book is tight, clean with marbled endppaers A little foxinfg. Booksellers label on front pastedown (Frank MurrayBookseller, Derby, Leicester. Half caklf woith raised bands. The binding is rubbed with loss of 15mm at top of spine biut remains sound. Seee scans and email for more. N° de ref. del artículo 009632

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