Excerpt from Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Vol. 2: D K<br><br>Royal personages are in all cases entered under their Christian names.<br><br>When two or more persons, not being peers or peeresses, bear the same surname, they are catalogued in the alphabetical order of their Christian names.<br><br>Peers and peeresses are placed under their titles, the ladies following their husbands.<br><br>In cases where the same title has been held at different periods by persons of different name and family, the several groups of holders are arranged not in the alphabetical order of their family names but in order of date. Successive holders of the same title who belonged to the same family are similarly arranged in order of date. Successive holders of the same title who belonged to the same family are similarly arranged in order of succession and not in the alphabetical order of their Christian names.<br><br>In cases where the title of nobility is also the family name, the holder of the title is placed before commoners of the same name.<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.