Biographical sketches of the lives and characters of illustrious and eminent men
By: by Charles George Dyer ; illustrated with whole length portraits.
Contributors: Brighty, G. M.; Romney, John, 1786-1863, engraver.; Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: C.G. Dyer and H. Setchel and Son
Published: 1819
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Portraits.; Biography.; Statesmen -- Biography.; Great Britain -- Biography.; Great Britain -- Biography -- Portraits.
Genres: Portraits.; Biography.; Biography
Notes: Plates signed: G.M. Brighty, del. and J. Romney, sculp. Brighty provided the pencil drawings for Romney's engravings. Cf. Pref.
NUC pre-1956 ND 0472275
Table of contents: title: Joseph Addison; title: Francis Bacon; title: James Barry; title: Francesco Bartolozzi; title: Charles Pratt, Earl of Camden; title: Sir William Chambers; title: Charles the First, King of England; title: William Pitt, Earl of Chatham; title: Geoffrey Chaucer; title: Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield; title: Colley Cibber; title: Edward Hyde, Lord Clarendon; title: Captain Thomas Coram; title: Oliver Cromwell; title: Desiderius Erasmus; title: Samuel Foote; title: Benjamin Franklin; title: David Garrick; title: Edward Gibbon, Esq.; title: Sir Thomas Gresham; title: Sir William Hamilton; title: Jonas Hanway, Esq.; title: Philip York, Earl of Hardwicke; title: William Hogarth; title: John Howard; title: Dr. Samuel Johnson; title: Charles Linnaeus; title: Dr. Richard Mead; title: Sir Thomas More; title: Arthur Murphy; title: William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle; title: Sir Isaac Newton; title: Thomas Pennant; title: Peter the Great; title: Matthew Prior; title: Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A.; title: Samuel Richardson; title: Jean Jacques Rousseau; title: Sir Peter Paul Rubens; title: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury; title: Sir Philip Sidney; title: Dr. Adam Smith; title: Laurence Sterne; title: Thomas Sutton; title: Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's; title: George Vertue; title: Voltaire; title: Sir Robert Walpole, Lord Orford.