BIB_ID
459748
Accession number
MA 176 E44
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1890. NNPM
Description
1 unnumbered page : portrait ; 21.5 x 10 cm
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Caption title.
A single leaf from: The biographical magazine : containing portraits of eminent and ingenious persons of every age and nation, with their lives and characters. Volume 1. London : Printed for Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, and Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, Paternoster Row, 1819.
Inlaid in sheet: 270 x 206 mm. NNPM
A single leaf from: The biographical magazine : containing portraits of eminent and ingenious persons of every age and nation, with their lives and characters. Volume 1. London : Printed for Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, and Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, Paternoster Row, 1819.
Inlaid in sheet: 270 x 206 mm. NNPM
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1890. NNPM
Summary
A biography of Burke printed in letterpress on the recto of a single leaf, with an oval stipple engraved portrait of him at head of text, signed "Holl, sculp."
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