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Maker

(artist)
1742-1826

(publisher)

(printer)

Title

Date of Production

1877

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Height: 27.1 cm
Width: 20.7 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4603.2

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: printed: ADVERTISEMENT. / In this volume is concluded the series of three hundred and sixty-one Portraits, / drawn and engraved by the late JOHN KAY, of which, perhaps, it is not too / much to say that it forms a collection quite unique both in character and / extent. As in the case of the First Volume, there is no material alteration / in the text, which, although wholly reset, follows in fact the order of the First / Edition both as regards plates and pagination. The portrait of the great / bibliopole, Archibald Constable, is added at the end of the series (before the / Appendix), and supplies an important omission in the previous Edition. Though / placed last, it is not the least of the notable figures represented. Valuable / indices are given to each Volume, both of the subjects portrayed and the / numerous persons incidentally alluded to throughout the text. The latter will / often be found to supply a clue to those who take a pleasure in tracing the / origin of great men and families, and in prying into the secrets of their ancestry. / EDINBURGH, December 1877.

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