BIRCH, Thomas. The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, with their Lives and Characters, London: William Baynes, 1813, 2°, engraved title and 108 engraved portraits by Houbraken and Vertue (some mainly marginal spotting), contemporary calf gilt with elaborate decorations to covers (worn), gilt inner dentelles, g.e. -- Lionel Henry CUST. The Royal Collection of Paintings at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, London: William Heinemann, 1905-06, 2 volumes, 2°, 141 plates only (of 180), unbound in cloth portfolio (worn). With Walter Armstrong's Sir Henry Raeburn (Paris, 1902). (4)

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BIRCH, Thomas. The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, with their Lives and Characters, London: William Baynes, 1813, 2°, engraved title and 108 engraved portraits by Houbraken and Vertue (some mainly marginal spotting), contemporary calf gilt with elaborate decorations to covers (worn), gilt inner dentelles, g.e. -- Lionel Henry CUST. The Royal Collection of Paintings at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, London: William Heinemann, 1905-06, 2 volumes, 2°, 141 plates only (of 180), unbound in cloth portfolio (worn). With Walter Armstrong's Sir Henry Raeburn (Paris, 1902). (4)
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Ramsay MacDonald (bookplates to pastedowns of first and third works).

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