Payne's Universum, or, Pictorial world
Subtitle: being a collection of engravings of views in all countries, portraits of great men, and specimens of works of art, of all ages and of every character
By: edited by Charles Edwards.
Contributors: Edwards, Charles (Editor)
Publisher: E.T. Brain and Co.
Published: 1845
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Europe -- Civilization -- 19th century.; Europe -- Civilization -- 18th century.; Europe -- Description and travel.; Europe -- Biography.
Other titles: Pictorial world
Notes: Some captions in English and German.
Sixty-four plates of engravings in each volume, with historical or biographical texts, some verse. List of plates in "Contents" at front of each v.
Most engravings signed A.H. Payne, sc.; a few (in v. 3) signed W. French, sc.
Added t.p. engraved: London, E.T. Brain & Co. ... & at Leipzig.
A few plates (e.g., v. 1, plates 35 and 42) have caption: Verlag der Englischen Kunstanstalt von A.H. Payne in Leipzig.
LC copy incomplete: 6 plates wanting (indicated in Contents at front of each v.).