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 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, SHEWING THE UTILITY OF A COLLECTION OF ENGRAVED PORTRAITS TO SUPPLY THE BY THE REV. J. GRANGER, VICAR OF SHIPLAKE, in oxfordshire. Animum pictarà pascit inani.-VIRG. FIFTH EDITION, WITH UPWARDS OF FOUR HUNDRED ADDITIONAL LIVES. IN SIX VOLUMES: VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR WILLIAM BAYNES AND SON, PATERNOSTER ROW: AND SOLD BY W. CLARKE, NEW BOND STREET; J. MAJOR, FLEET STREET; J. AND J. ARCH, H. S. BAYNES AND CO. EDINBURGH; AND R. M. TIMS, DUBLIN. 1824. 798 |