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The book of gems. : The modern poets and artists of Great Britain. / Edited by S.C. Hall

Samuel Carter Hall editor

RA Collection: Book

Record number

06/2555

Author

Samuel Carter Hall, editor

Imprint

London: Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane, 1838

Physical Description

xvi., 304, [4] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

General Note

Vol. 1: x, 304, [4] p.; vol. 2: xvi, 304 p.; vol. 3: xvi, 304, [4] p.
Includes brief biographical sketches and autographs of the poets

Contents

Contents: v.1. Chaucer to Prior. -- v.2. Pomfret to Bloomfield. -- v.3. Wordsworth to Bayley

Copy Note

Lacking v. 1. and v. 2.

Contributors

Thomas Sidney Cooper RA, artist/designer
Benjamin Robert Haydon, artist/designer
Clarkson Stanfield RA, artist/designer
R.R. Reinagle RA, artist/designer
William James Müller, artist/designer
Penry Williams, artist/designer
Thomas Stothard RA, artist/designer
William Mulready, artist/designer
William Wyon RA, artist/designer
William Collins RA, artist/designer
John Wilson, artist/designer
David Roberts RA, artist/designer
George Jones RA, artist/designer
Solomon Alexander Hart RA, artist/designer
David Cox the elder, artist\designer
Abraham Cooper RA, artist/designer
George Barret the younger, artist/designer
Thomas Creswick RA, artist/designer
Sir Richard Westmacott RA, artist/designer
T.C. Hofland, artist/designer
E.T. Parris, artist/designer
Richard Parkes Bonington, artist/designer
Thomas Uwins RA, artist/designer
Sir Edwin Landseer RA, artist/designer
Henry William Pickersgill RA, artist/designer
Francis William Topham, artist/designer
J.M.W. Turner RA, artist/designer
William Miller, Unknown engraver
W.H. Simmons, engraver
Charles Rolls, engraver
Lumb Stocks RA, engraver
E. J. Portbury, engraver
Frederick Bacon, engraver
James Tibbetts Willmore ARA, engraver
Henry Corbould, draughtsman
Alfred Robert Freebairn, engraver
John Cousen, engraver
J.J. Hinchliff, engraver
J. Brain, engraver
Edward Radclyffe, engraver
James Sands, engraver
William John Cooke, engraver
James Thomson, engraver
S. Bull, engraver
Whittaker and Co. (London), publisher

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