Physiognomical Portraits One Hundred Distinguished Characters from undoubted Originals Engraved in the Line Manner by the Most Eminent Artists 1824 Two Volumes bound in one

Series of full-page engravings of notable historical figures, the engravings executed after portraits by master painters; each engraving accompanied on facing page with biographical text (texts bi-lingual English/French); two volumes here bound in a single large tome; includes alphabetical lists giving the subject of the portrait, the original painter, and the engraver; painters includes Holbein, Van Dyke, Reynolds, Titian, Michelangelo, Gerard; engravers J. Scott, C. Armstrong, J.T. Wedgwood, C. Pye, and many more; three-quarter maroon calf with gilt borders, raised bands and six compartments to spine, with gilt titling and devices; marbled boards and endpapers; med-heavy foxing to prelims and text block, lighter scattered foxing in text, most of the engravings showing some offset to facing pages, o.w. G-VG throughout; boards rubbed and scuffed; some wear to leather along joints and to corners; leather split to front joint near head of spine (roughly 5cm), closed tear head of spine (2cm).