Portraits of characters illustrious in British history
Subtitle: from the beginning of the reign of Henry the Eighth to the end of the reign of James the Second, engraved in mezzotinto
By: by Richard Earlom & Charles Turner, from original pictures, miniatures, &c.
Contributors: Turner, C. 1774-1857, engr.; Dunkarton, Robert, b. 1744, engr.
Publisher: S. Woodburn
Published: 1815
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Portraits, British; Engraving, British
Notes: A digital reproduction is available from the Open Collections Program at Harvard University, Women and work collection.
Engraved t.p. in script: each portrait is accompanied by leaf containing brief biographical sketch.
Portraits are dated 1810-15.
The 1st edition, published London, 1810-12? has the same title except for the designation "Vol. I" which is omitted in this edition; it contains 60 portraits, but no letterpress.  "In about 1815, the portraits, worn, retouched, and with the inscriptions strengtheded, were re-issued their number increased to 100 ...  Besides Earlom and Turner, Robert Dunkarton engraved a number of the plates."  cf. A. Whitman, Charles Turner, 1907, p. 165.
Ex libris "James Riminton."