The life and studies of Benjamin West, Esq., president of the Royal Academy of London, prior to his arrival in England
Subtitle: compiled from materials furnished by himself
By: by John Galt
Contributors: Fry, William Thomas, 1789-1843
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, and T. and G. Underwood, Fleet Street
Published: 1817
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Painters; Biography
Other titles: Life and works of Benjamin West, Esq., president of the Royal Academy of London, subquent to his arrival in this country.
Notes: Pt. I previously published by Cadell and Davies in London, and by Moses Thomas in Philadelphia, both in 1816.

Part II is 1st ed. and has title: The life and works of Benjamin West, Esq., president of the Royal Academy of London, subquent to his arrival in this country (London : Cadell and Davies ; Edinburgh : W. Blackwood, 1820).

Both pts. printed in London, pt. [I] by Nichols, Son, and Bentley and pt. II by A. and R. Spottiswoode.

Frontispiece port. in pt. [I] engraved by W.T. Fry after a self-portrait by West.

Pagination, pt. [I]: xii, 160 p., [1] leaf of plates ; pt. II: xv, [1], 251, [1] p. First leaf of pt. [I] blank.

Final p. of pt. II bears Cadell and Davies' advertisements.