[Dante Alighieri] / [Thomas Hobbes] / [Sir Isaac Newton] / [Edmund Halley] / [Malkin, Arthur Thomas].

Gallery of Portraits of important philosophers, scientists and men of letters [with Portraits of Carl von Linne / Portrait of Thomas Hobbes / Portrait of Edmund Halley / Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton / Ignatius von Loyola / Cromwell / Sir Humphry Davy etc.].

No Place [London], [Charles Knight & Co.], No Year [1832]. Circa 225 pages. Features thirty black and white portraits, with many black and white illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with half-leather and buckram boards. Gilt lettering and blind design on spine with raised bands with gilt ornament. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only minor foxing throughout. Some tissue guards loose. With marbled edges and marbled both endpapers and pastedowns. Name of previous owner written in blue ink on free front endpaper “Richard Allen”, also featured within in pencil and dated ‘1832’. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen Translator Erik Haugaard.

Includes for example the following portraits and biographies: Dante / Davy / Kosciusko / Watt / Turenne / Boyle / Newton / Michael Angelo / Moliere / Corneille / Halley / Sully / Pascal / Erasmus / Cromwell / Titian / Lionardo Da Vinci / William III / Napoleon / Goethe / Schiller / Correggio / Raphael etc.

This volume of ‘Gallery of Portraits’ appears to be a compendium of selected biographies taken from other ‘Gallery of Portraits with Memoirs’ volumes. It was a publication by Arthur Thomas Malkin and the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK). The SDUK was founded in 1826, mainly at the instigation of Lord Brougham, with the object of publishing information to people who were unable to obtain formal teaching, or who preferred self-education. A Whiggish London organisation that published inexpensive texts intended to adapt scientific and similarly high-minded material for the rapidly expanding reading public, it was wound up in 1848.

Arthur Thomas Malkin (1803 – 1888) was an English writer, alpinist and cricketer. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Art – Rare · Biographies and Memoirs · Biography · Catalogue Four – International Art · Catalogue Twelve – Philosophy · Dante · Dante Alighieri · Erik Haugaard Collection · History · Hobbes · Original Decorative Art – Portrait · Portrait · Portraits · Science – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 200244AB

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