The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs

The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (editor.),

Published by Charles Knight, Pall-Mall East, 1833

About this Item

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarter leather/calf with marbled boards Gilt tooled spine. Raised bands. Printed at head of each title page: "Under the superintendence of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge." Some wear to extremities. Volumes 3, 4, and 6 have small chips to spine. Boards rubbed. Volume 1 has a stain to the lower corner of the FFEP. Occasional foxing. A collection of 168 biographies with accompanying portraits of distinguished poets, philosophers, statesmen, artists, architects, etc. With tissue-guarded steel engraved portraits of Dante Alighieri, Nicolaus Copernicus, Sir Isaac Newton, George Frideric Handel, Richelieu, Peter the Great, Mozart, Petrarch, Bossuet, Queen Elizabeth, Raphael, Sir Walter Scott, Titian, Thomas Jefferson, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Galileo Galilei, Benjamin Franklin, Nicolas Poussin, Cromwell, Leonardo da Vinci, Goethe, Napoleon, Martin Luther, George Washington, and many others. Extra shipping may be required to size of volumes. Seller Inventory # 3333

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs

Publisher: Charles Knight, Pall-Mall East

Publication Date: 1833

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition