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'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. 3' - Details

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. 3