A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the revolution : consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads : intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits : interspersed with variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons, not to be found in any other biographical work : with a preface, shewing the utility of a collection of engraved portraits to supply the defect, and answer the vaious purposes, of medals
London : Printed for T. Davies, in Russel-Street, J. Robson, Bond-Street, G. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row, T. Becket, T. Cadell, and T. Evans, in the Strand, 1775
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A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the revolution : consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads : intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits : interspersed with variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons, not to be found in any other biographical work : with a preface, shewing the utility of a collection of engraved portraits to supply the defect, and answer the vaious purposes, of medals / by the Rev. J. Granger, vicar of Shiplake, in Oxfordshire
A supplement to this work entitled: 'A supplement, ... to a biographical history of England, ... communicated by the Honourable Horace Walpole, to the author, James Granger' was published in 1774.