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RANKE'S HISTORY OF THE POPES, TRANSLATED BY E. FOSTER. Vol. 1. Portrait of Julius II., after Itaphael. COXE S MEMOIRS OF THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, (to form 3 vols.) Vol. I. intk flic Portrait. * Av Atlas, contaimnjf 2(5 fine larpro Maps and Plans of Marlborough’s Campaigns, being all those published latlie original editiou at £12 12s. may now be had, in one volume, 4to. for 10s. 6d. 29. SHERIDAN'S DRAMATIC WORKS AND LIFE. Fortrait. 30. COXE S MEMOIRS OF MARLBOROUGH. VOL. 2. Portrait of the Duchess. 31. GOETHE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 13 BOOKS. PORTRAIT. 32. RANKE'S HISTORY OF THE POPES, VOL. 2. With Index, and Portrait of Innocent X. 33. LAMARTINE'S HISTORY OF THE GIRONDISTS. VOL. 3 (which completes the work). AVith a Memoir of Lamartine, and a Sketch of the last Kevolution. 34. COXES MEMOIRS OF THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. VOL. 3 (which completes the work). 35. WHEATLEY ON THE COMMON PRAYER. FRONTISPIECE. 36. RANKE'S HISTORY OF THE POPES. VOL. 3 (which completes the work). With Portrait of Clement VII. 37. MILTON'S PROSE WORKS. COMPLETE IN 3 VOLS. VOL. 1. Porlrait. 38. MENZEL'S HISTORY OF GERMANY. COMPLETE IN 3 VOLS. VOL. 1. Portrait of Charlemagne. 39. MILTON'S PROSE WORKS. VOL. 2. Frontispiece. 40. MILTON'S PROSE WORKS. VOL. 3. Portrait of Laud. 41. MENZEL'S HISTORY OF GERMANY. VOL. 2. Porlrait of Charles V. 42. SCHLEGEL’S /ESTHETIC AND MISCELLANEOUS WORKS, CONTAINING Letters on Christian Art, Lssay on Gothic Architecture, Uemavks on the llomance- Poetry of the Middle Ages, on Shakspeare, the Limits of the Beautiful, and on the Language and M'isdom of the Indians. 43. GOETHE’S WORKS. VOL. 2. Containing the remainder of his Autobiography, tpgether with his Travels in Italy, France, and Switzerland. 44. SCHILLER’S WORKS, VOL. 4, CONTAINING "THE ROBBERS,” "FIESKO," “ Love and Intrigue,” and “ The Ghost-Seer,” translated by Henry G. Bohn. 45. MENZEL’S HISTORY OF GERMANY. VOL. 3 (which completes the work). With Portrait of Prince Mettemich. 46. SCHLEGEL'S LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY. 47. LAMARTINE’S HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1848. 'v>.r With Frontispiece, containing 6 Portraits. 48. JUNIUS’S LETTERS, WITH AI.LTHE NOTES OF WOODFALL’S EDITION, ^ind important additions. Complete in 3 vols. Vol. I, containing all the 'dclri ' Original >• Letters. x The following are in progress .— SCHILLER’S tVORKS. Vol. 5 containing his Life, Poems, &c. NEANDER’S CHURCH HISTORY, .and LIFE OF CHRIST. VASARI’S LIVES OF THE PAINTERS. THE WORKS OF JEAN PAUL RICHTER, AND TIECK. MEMOIRS OF SULLY, BETZ, COMINES, VILLEHARHOUIN. RANKE’S HISTORY OF GERMANY LURING THE REFORMATION. RANKE’S HISTORY OF PRUSSIA. V07' TAYLOR’S HOLY LIVING AND DYING. GUERICKE’S MANUAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, &c. /^vTy /^v .y/ 7 * t ’f 1 • V t' ^ih. '"*' ‘4 / V * BOM’S ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY. LODGE’S PORTRAITS. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.Org/details/b28146001_0001 : •PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES OF WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF THEIR LIVES AND ACTIONS. BY EDMUND LODGE, ESQ., F.S.A. O IN EIGHT VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. ilDCCCXLIX. I > rry/Lcour . BSADDVRT APT® 1TAIT8, F&1KT£BP« WBlTEFBIAlt ADVERTISEMENT. #• The object of the Publisher in undertaking this entirely neAV and unprecedentedly cheap edition of a splendid and justly celebrated Work, is to produce it in such a shape as shall be accessible to all whose means have hitherto precluded them from forming an acquaintance with it in more expensive forms : hut in effecting tliis end, none of the merits of the original edition, size alone excepted, will be sacrificed ; while on the other hand, the diminution of bulk will, by rendering the work more portable, increase its value with those who in their wanderings love the companionship of a favourite Author, or who, when visiting the old halls and castles where hang the originals of the Portraits adorning the pages of Lodge, desire to satisfy themselves of the Engraver’s fidelity. It is probable that this popular edition may become known to many who have hitherto been unaware of the nature or merits of the work, and to others who, knowing it by name only, or from a cursory inspection of the prints, may have regarded it as a mere collection of splendid engravings, to which the “ letter-press ” was attached more for form than use. A few e.xplanatory vi ADVERTISEMENT. words, therefore, ou these points may not he out of sea- son when introducing it to, probably, a wider circulation than even its already great popularity has obtained for it. Edmund Lodge, the Author of the work now about to be produced in so novel a form, was a Member of the Herald’s College, for many years Norroy, and, after- wards, Clarencieux, King-at-Arms. The greater part of his life was passed in the study of the History arul Antiquities of his native country, respecting which he is published several valuable works ; but it on the Biogra- phies attached to the “ Portraits ” that his fame chiefly rests, and on them he expended his best energies. What is required for such a work, and the reasons why a com- bination of portrait with biography is especially de- sirable, cannot be better expressed than in his own ” elegant and forcible words : —“ It is needless, he ob- serves in his Preface to the first edition, “ to descant largely on the extended information and delight which we derive from the multiplication of portraits by en- graving, or on the more important advantages resulting from the study of biography. Separately considered, the one aflbrds an amusement not less innocent than elegant, inculcates the rudiments, or aids the progress, of taste, and rescues from the hand of time the perishable monuments raised by the pencil. The other, while it is, pel haps, the most agreeable branch of historical literature, is certainly the most useful in its moral efiects ; stating the known circumstances, and endeavouring to unfold the secret motives, of human conduct ; selecting all that is — a ADVERTISEMENT. VII worthy of being recorded ; bestowing its lasting enco- miums and chastisements ; it at once informs and invigo- rates the mind, and warms and mends the heart. It is, however, from the combination of portraits and biogra- phy that we reap the utmost degree of utility and pleasure which can he derived from them : as, in con- templating the portrait of an eminent person, we long to be instructed in his history, so in considering his actions we are anxious to behold his countenance. So earnest is this desire that the imagination is generally ready to coin a set of features, or to conceive a character, to supply the painful absence of one or the other.” How far Mr. Lodge acted up to his own standard may be gathered from the following extract from a letter written by Sir Walter Scott to the publisher of the first imperial 8vo edition : “ Mr. Lodge’s talents as an Historian and Antiquary are well known to the public by his admirable collection of ancient letters and documents, entitled ‘ Illustrations of British History book which I have very frequently consulted, and have almost always succeeded in finding not only the information required, but col- lected a great deal more as I went in search of it. The present talents Work presents the same and industry ; the same patient powers of collecting information from the most obscure and hidden sources ; and the same talent for selecting the facts which ai’e the rarest and most interesting, and presenting them to the general reader in a luminous and concise manner. “ It is impossible for me to conceive a work which ought to be more interesting to the present age than that which exhibits before our eyes our ‘ fathers as they lived,’ accompanied with such memorials of their lives and characters as enable us to com- pare their persons and countenances with their sentiments and actions.” via ADVERTISEMENT. Did space permit, many other testimonials of the Author’s merit might be adduced. The history of the various editions of this celebrated Work is curious, as illustrative of the great change which a few years, and the rise of a new generation, has introduced into the system of publication. The first edition was commenced in 1814, and completed in forty parts, in folio, at 2/.

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