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    • Title:Eccentric biography or, Sketches of remarkable characters, ancient and modern : including potentates , lawyers, statesmen, ... and forming a pleasing delineation of the singularity, whim, folly, caprice, &c, &c of the human mind. Ornamented with portraits, of the most singular characters noticed in the work.
    • Publication:London : Printed by J. Cundee for Vernor and Hood, Poultry; and T. Hurst, No. 32 Paternoster-Row, 1801.
    • Physical Description:12 unnumbered pages, 348 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : a la poupée portraits ; 15 cm

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      • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
        Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library

      • Call Number: 51 A2 Ec17
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Notes:Bound in contemporary speckled calf, red sheep label to spine, gilt lyre motifs and ruling to smooth spine, gilt roll to covers, marbled endpapers, light blue speckled edges. Contemporary heraldic bookplate of Anna Maria Ridgway to front pastedown. For further information, consult library staff.
      • Provenance:Peter Harrington; August 2020.
       
    • Local Notes:Library Shelving Facility copy: All plates lacking.
    • Notes:Some prints signed: Chapman.
      Advertisement on page [3].
      Includes index: pages [5]-[12].
    • Format:Book
    • Incomplete contents:Titles of portrait prints: Bamfylde Moore Carew, King of the beggars -- Daniel Dancer, Esqr. -- John Elwes, Esqr. -- Charles Price, in the character of a gentleman -- Lord Rokeby.
    • Subjects:Eccentrics and eccentricities.
      Portrait prints.
      Europe--Biography.
      Great Britain--Biography.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Hopson, William Fowler, 1849-1935--Bookplate.
      Hopson, William Fowler, 1849-1935--Donor.
      Witehull, Emma L.--Autograph.
    • Genre/Form:A la poupée prints.
      Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
    • Also listed under:Chapman, J. (John), active 1792-1823, printmaker.
      Ridgway, Anna Maria, former owner.
      England--London.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/2146073