1835 12vol Portraits Illustrious Personages Great Britain Antiquarian Book Set

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.

By Edmund Lodge

Printed For Harding And Lepard: London 1835

"Edmund Lodge (1756-1839), herald, was a long-serving English officer of arms, a writer on heraldic subjects, and a compiler of short biographies. He wrote Illustrations of British History, Biography, and Manners in the Reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth and James I (3 vols., 1791), which consisted of selections from the manuscripts of the Howard, Talbot and Cecil families preserved at the College of Arms. He also wrote Life of Sir Julius Caesar (2nd ed., 1827). He contributed the literary matter to Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain (1814, &c.), an elaborate work of which a popular edition is included in Bohn's Illustrated Library. His most important work on heraldry was The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage (1832; enlarged edition, 1859). In The Annual Peerage and Baronetage (1827-1829), reissued after 1832 as Peerage of the British Empire, and generally known as Lodge's Peerage, his share did not go beyond the title-page."

General wear and some minor damage to covers and spines. Inside hinges split on most volumes however all covers firmly attached. The first page section in Volumes 4 & 12 are loose with example shown. All volumes appear as complete. Contemporary owner names appear on front blank endpapers of each volume. Volume 10 has some water marks with example shown. Most (if not all) tissue papers present. An aged patina is present with some pages whilst many are remarkably clean and bright. No signs of foxing, just the aged patina and typical engraving stains. Overall a very nice example of this desirable set of 12 large volumes. Please contact us with any queries you may have or to request additional specific photos.