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| 100 | 1 | # | $a Bryan |
| 245 | 1 | 2 | $a A Biographical And Critical Dictionary Of Painters And Engravers, From The Revival Of Art Under Cimabue, And The Alledged Discovery Of Engraving By Finiguerra, To The Present Time: With The Ciphers, Monograms, And Marks, Used By Each Engraver; And An Ample List Of Their Principal Works. Together With Two Indexes, Alphabetical And Chronological. To Which Is Prefixed, An Introduction, Containing A Brief Account of the Painters of Antiquity. By Michael Bryan. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. (II.) |
| 260 | # | # | $a London: $b Printed For Carpenter And Son, Old Bond Street; J. Booker, New Bond Street; And Whittingham And Arliss, Paternoster-Row. $c 1816. |
| 300 | # | # | $a 2 vols.; $c 242 mm. (Quarto.) |
| 500 | # | # | $a Vol. I: [ii], xlix, [i], 709, [3] p., frontis. (port.), 5 pl. - Vol. II: [iv], 822, [2] p. |
| 505 | 0 | # | $a Vol. I: [Half-title, frontis., t.p., dedic.] - Introduction - Authorities Which Have Been Consulted For This Work - A Brief Explication Of Some Of The Terms Used In The Art - [Plates] - [Text] - Alphabetical Index To The First Volume; [colophon] - Errata in Vol. I. - Vol. II: [Half-t., t.p.] - [Text] - Appendix - Alphabetical Index To The Second Volume; Index To Appendix - Chronological Index Of Painters And Engravers; [colophon] - Errata in Vol. II. |
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$a The frontispiece portrait is captioned, 'Michael Bryan Engraved by W. Haines, from a Miniature by Alexr. Pope.' The five numbered plates are all signed as engraved by Girtin. Each has the publishers' imprint of 'Jas. Carpenter & Son & the other Proprietors' and the date 'May 1. 1816'. The work is dedicated by Michael Bryan to the Prince Regent [afterwards George IV], the Deputy President and Governors of the British Institution. The printer is named in both colophons: 'Whittingham and Rowland, Printers, Goswell Street, London.' |
| 510 | 0 | # | $a RIBA, Early printed, 1 (1994), no. 451, p.271-2. |
| 520 | 2 | # |
$a Bryan began writing his biographic dictionary after his retirement from business. The work was first published in parts from 1813. It remained a standard reference work, undergoing several revisions, throughout the nineteenth century. The plates show monograms used by engravers. |
| 561 | # | # | $a Front loose endpapers are inscribed in ink, 'Bequest of Sr. A. W. Callcott'. |
| 562 | # | # | $a The five numbered plates are bound in in reverse order. Has various marginal notes, in pencil and ink. |
| 563 | # | # | $a 19th-century quarter green cloth, blue papered boards; white paper spine-labels lettered 'Bryan's Dictionary Of Painters And Engravers - Vol. I. (II.)'. |
| 653 | # | # | $a Artists - Painters - Engravers - Europe - History |
| 655 | # | 0 | $a Biographies - Biography - Dictionaries - Biographical disctionaries - Art history - Reference books - Great Britain - 19th century |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Carpenter $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Booker $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Whittingham $e publisher $e printer |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Arliss $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Rowland $e printer |
| 700 | 0 | # | $a George IV $e dedicatee |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a haines $e engraver |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Pope $e source artist |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Girtin $e engraver |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Callcott $e previous owner $e donor |
| 710 | 2 | # | $a Whittingham and Arliss $e publisher |
| 710 | 2 | # | $a Whittingham and Rowland $e printer |
| 710 | 2 | # | $a British Institution $e dedicatee |