Memorials and characters, together with the lives of divers eminent and worthy persons : Consisting chiefly of a great Variety of the most celebrated Examples of Piety and Virtue, among the Nobility, Gentry, and Clergy, From the Year One Thousand Six Hundred to the present Time. Collected and compiled from above one hundred and fifty different authors, several scarce Pieces and some Original Manuscripts, communicated to the Editor. To which is added, an appendix of monumental inscriptions, in Latin and English. Likewise chronological tables, and an index to the whole.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilford, John, fl. 1723-42.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],iv,[8],780,779-780,781-788,42,[2]p. )

Other Title:

Memorials and characters, together with the lives of divers eminent and worthy persons.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for John Wilford, at the Three Flower-de-Luces, in the Old Bailey, MDCCXLI. [1741]

Notes:

Titlepage in red and black.

With a list of subscribers.

Issued in 26 parts.

The duplicate pp. 779-780 contains 'A particular account of the benefactions and charities of the Lady Elizabeth Hastings'.

The dedication is signed by John Wilford; the Dictionary of National Biography comments: "Wilford assumed the credit of editorship, and the book is invariably known as 'Wilford's Lives', but it was in reality the work of obscure compilers in his pay, chief among whom was John Jones (1700-1770)".

Price from imprint: price One Pound Six Shillings and Six Pence in Sheets.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T138836.

OCLC:

642409956