Claim: Burnet Reading worked for booksellers, engraving portraits of celebrities, may of which appeared in European Magazine,a London monthy magazine that  was at one point owned by a Shakespearean scholar;Reading also engraved "Characters of Shakespeare" in 1920.
Evidence: In 1820 a set of twelve etchings by Reading, from drawings by Mortimer, of "Characters to illustrate Shakespeare," was published by T. and H. Rodd; and many of the plates in that firm's "Collection of Portraits to illustrate Granger's "History of England,"" 1820 and 1822, were engraved by him.