PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES OF GREAT BRITAIN. ENGRAVED FROM AUTHENTIC PICTURES IN THE GALLERIES OF THE NOBILITY AND THE PUBLIC COLLECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY. WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF THEIR LIVES AND ACTIONS (5 Volumes)

London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, n.d.. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Five small quarto volumes; in 1/2 black morocco with rules at the edges, over green cloth, with spines gilt, decorated in compartments with raised bands; complete in five volumes; 194 [195]; 195 [196]; 199, [200], 205, [206], 175 [176]; with 240 engraved portraits throughout, all with elaborate borders. ~~These illustrious certainly covers the British waterfront, up until the mid-19th century, with biographical sketches and handsome engraved portraits of everyone from King Henry VIII to Sir Walter Scott. Very Good binding.