James Granger

English biographer

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A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution: consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads. Intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits: interspersed with a variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons ... With a preface ... / By the Rev. J. Granger.
James GrangerDate: 1824
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A biographical history of England, from the Revolution to the end of George I's reign; being a continuation of the Rev. J. Granger's work: consisting of characters disposed in different classes; and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads; interspersed with a variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons ... / The materials being supplied by the manuscripts left by Mr. Granger, and the collections of the editor, the Rev. Mark Noble.
Mark NobleDate: 1806
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A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution: consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads. Intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits: interspersed with a variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons ... / With a preface ... By the Rev. J. Granger.
James GrangerDate: 1804
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Woodburn's gallery of rare portraits; consisting of original plates, by Cecil, Delaram, Droeshout ... [etc.], with facsimile copies from the rarest and most curious portraits, illustrative of Granger's "Biographical history of England", Clarendon's "History of the Rebellion", Burnet's "History of his own time", Pennant's "London", &c. ... containing two hundred portraits, of persons celebrated for their diplomatic services, military or naval achievements, literary acquirements, eccentric habits, or some peculiar feature in their lives deserving the notice of the historian and biographer. Particularly the ... equestrian set of plates in the illustrated Clarendon, belonging to the Right Hon. Earl Spencer, K.G., with others from the most remarkable and singular prints, in the possession of different noblemen and gentlemen, celebrated for their collection of rare portraits / [Samuel Woodburn].
Samuel WoodburnDate: 1816