Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Portraits of English Historical Personages Who Died Prior to the Year 1625
ISBN: 978-13-334-6138-6
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Liczba stron: 78
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydanie: 2018 r.
Język: angielski
Dostępność: aktualnie niedostępny
Excerpt from Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Portraits of English Historical Personages Who Died Prior to the Year 1625: Exhibited in the Examination Schools, Oxford, Under the Auspices of a Committee of the Oxford Historical Society, April and May, 1904<br><br>In all my poor historical investigations it has been, and always is, one of the most primary wants to procure a bodily likeness of the personage inquired after - a good portrait if such exists; failing that, even an indifferent, if sincere one.<br><br>In Short, any representation made by a faithful human creature of that face and figure which he saw with his eyes, and which I can never see with mine, is now valuable to me, and much better\ than none at all.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.