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Illustrious men : their noble deeds, discoveries, and attainments : illustrated.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection CT774 .I45 1861
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--Biography.
- Great Britain.
- Authors, English--Biography.
- Authors, English.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Advertisements -- England -- London -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor)
- Turner, A. K. (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 332 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Manufacture:
- London : McCorquodale & Co.
- Place of Publication:
- London : James Blackwood & Co., [not before 1861]
- Contents:
- Alfred the Great
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Cardinal Wolsey
- Sir Thomas More
- Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex
- Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester
- John Jewell, Bishop of Salisbury
- Sir Thomas Gresham
- The Admirable Crichton
- Sir Francis Drake
- William Cecil, Lord Burleigh
- William Shakespeare
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Francis Bacon
- Sir Edward Coke
- Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
- John Hampden
- Dr. William Harvey
- Admiral Blake
- Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
- John Milton
- John Tillotson
- John Locke
- Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury
- William Penn
- Joseph Addison
- John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Robert Walpole
- John Dalrymple, Earl of Stair
- Sir Hans Sloane
- General Wolfe
- George, Lord Anson
- George, Lord Lyttelton
- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
- Sir William Blackstone
- Dr. Samuel Johnson
- Robert Lowth, Bishop of London
- John Howard
- William Murray, Earl of Mansfield.
- Notes:
- Preface dated at end: London, 1861.
- "Twelfth thousand."
- Publisher's advertisements: P. [333-336].
- Local Notes:
- Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.
- Penn Libraries copy has address label ("A.K. Turner, 14 Moorlands, Wickersley, Rotherham ...") affixed to front pastedown; autograph ("A. K. Turner") on front free endpaper.
- OCLC:
- 436342221
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