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Book/Printed Material A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution

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Title

  • A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution: consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads. Intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits. Interspersed with variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons

Names

  • Granger, James, 1723-1776
  • Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • London, T. Davies, 1769.

Headings

  • -  Great Britain--Biography--Early works to 1800
  • -  Great Britain--Biography--Portraits--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2543
  • -  English short title catalogue, T90309
  • -  Bibliographical footnotes.
  • -  --A supplement, consisting of corrections and large additions, to A biographical history of England, referred to their proper places in that work: to which, besides an index to the additional characters, are subjoined exact emendations and improvements of the index to the former volumes; and a list of curious portraits of eminent persons not yet engraved, communicated by ... Horace Walpole, to the author. London, T. Davies, 1774. 547 p. 24 cm.
  • -  LC copy has bookplate of Howard C. Levis.
  • -  LAC ddw 2022-06-06 update (1 card)
  • -  Rosenwald collection copy listed without call number in Rosenwald bibliography. LAC ddw 2022-06-06

Medium

  • 2 v. in 4. port. 24 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • DA28 .G7 1769

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 50049842

OCLC Number

  • 3356844

Online Format

  • online text
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Granger, James, Howard Coppuck Levis, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution: consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads.Intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits.Interspersed with variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons. London, T. Davies, 1769. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/50049842/.

APA citation style:

Granger, J., Levis, H. C. & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1769) A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution: consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads.Intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits.Interspersed with variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons. London, T. Davies. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/50049842/.

MLA citation style:

Granger, James, Howard Coppuck Levis, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution: consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads.Intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits.Interspersed with variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons. London, T. Davies, 1769. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/50049842/>.