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Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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First Edition. in contemporary red morocco, covers gilt in elaborate floral borders within six fillet outer border, spines ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt, with the later bookplate of the Buchanan Bequest Library, no. 1396, and the library stamp of Bellfield Library, all edges gilt. Three volumes, 4to (262 x 204 mm), engraved portrait frontispiece and pp. [ii], ii, iii, [i], [ii], 160, with 50 engraved plates; engraved frontispiece portrait and pp. [v], [i], 57, 53*-58*, [58], 59-139, [1], [4] index, with a further 49 plates; engraved frontispiece portrait and pp. [vi], 184, [7], index, [1] errata, 49 further engraved plates, with a total of 151 engraved plates between the three volumes, considerable offsetting and some light foxing, several of the plates folded at the foot as slightly too large, An attractive copy of this monumental and lavishly illustrated biographical dictionary. Sylvester Harding was a miniaturist, engraver and publisher who was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme and sent as a boy to be an apprentice hairdresser to London. At the age of fourteen, he ran away and joined a troupe of strolling players but by the 1770s, he had become a successful miniature painter, with paintings regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1777. He published a number of works in collaboration with his son, an engraver, and his brother, Edward, a librarian. The brothers set up successful bookshops and publishing businesses first in Fleet Street and then in Pall Mall, where the first volume of the present work was published. At some point between 1795 and 1798, the brothers separated their businesses and Sylvester stayed at the Pall Mall address, where he was to issue the second and third volumes. Other important works by Harding were his Illustrations from Shakespeare, 1789-1793 and his Memoirs of the Count de Grammont, 1793. The text for the biographies was supplied by Francis Godolphin Waldron, actor, actor manager, bookseller and writer.first.…

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