Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Bates, William, -1884
Title:
The Maclise portrait gallery of illustrious literary characters : with memoirs biographical, critical, bibliographical, and anecdotal, illustrative of the literature of the former half of the present century / by William Bates, B.A.
Edition:
New edition, with eighty-five portaits.
Published / Created:
London : Chatto & Windus, 1898.

London : Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, London and Beccles
Physical Description:
xv, 540 pages, [85] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
This volume consists of a reproduction, on slightly reduced scale, of the eighty-one portraits and groups originally pub. in Fraser's magazine, 1830-33, under the title of "A gallery of illustrious literary characters."
Subject Terms:
Authors -- Portraits. | Authors, English. | Journalists -- Great Britain. | Authors. | Authors, English. | Journalists. | Great Britain. | Dugan, John A. -- Autograph. | Griswold Memorial -- Stamp.
Form/Genre:
Portraits. | Photomechanical prints -- 1898. | Publishers' advertisements.
Contributors:
Maclise, Daniel, 1806–1870. | Chatto & Windus, publisher. | William Clowes and Sons, printer.