This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/25/2024
[COPPER ENGRAVINGS]. “Eclectic Engravings,” a Collection of 18 Engraved Portraits of Literary or Political Figures. [V.p., ca. 1880s-90s]. 18 4to loose plates, with captions. Approximately 12 x 9 ½”. Leaves housed in contemporary full green cloth portfolio, front board stamped in black and gilt, spine stamped in blind (portfolio lacking ties, worn, soiled, plates foxed with some edgewear and toning). Very good. Portraits include: George Gordon Lord Byron, Michel Angelo Buonarroti, Washington Irving, [Alexander] Pope, John Bright, John Bunyan, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Dickens, Robert Burns, William Cowper, George Bancroft, Anthony Trollope, Napoleon, Joseph Addison, Lord Macaulay, Julius Caesar, [Alfred, Lord] Tennyson, William Thackeray.