Portraits of men of eminence in literature, science, and art : with biographical memoirs
By: edited by Edward Walford ; the photographs from life, by Ernest Edwards
Contributors: Bennett, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1833-1902, publisher
Publisher: Alfred William Bennett
Published: 1866
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
Subjects: Portraits; Artists; English Authors; Biography; Scientists
Other titles: Men of eminence
Notes: Other vols. published by Lovell Reeve & Co.

6 volumes published; v. 3-6 ed. by Edward Walford. Cf. British Museum Catalogue.

Presumably one vol. of a 6 v. set. This vol. includes: William Gifford Palgrave, Sir Rowland Hill, Cyrus Redding, Philip James Bailey, Dr. and Mrs. Beke, John Edmund Reade, William Allingham, Sir Frederick Pollock, B.B. Woodward, W.J. Thoms, G. Scharf, J.A. St. John, William Smith, Dr. Lyon Playfair, Robert Patterson, J.W. Colenso, Joseph William Bazalgette, J. Emerson-Tennent, Lord Houghton, Henry Kingsley, Sir Henry Holland, Matthew Digby Wyatt, Sir Charles Fox, John Tenniel.

The illustrations are albumen prints.

BM vol. 200, col. 72

Gift of Gloria and Stanley Fishfader.

Binding: calf; gilt rules on boards; stamped in gilt on front board "Grove House School, South Hackney"; gilt spine with black morocco label; marbled edges.