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 a Variety of Anecdotes, and Memoirs of a Great Number of Persons, Not to be Found in Any Other Biographical Work ; with a Preface, Schewing the Utility of a Collection of Engraved Portraits to Supply the Defect, and Answer the Various Purposes, of Medals ; in Six Volumes, Volume 1 |
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