LODGE, Edmund (1756?1839). Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Engraved from Authentic Pictures, In the Galleries of the Nobility, and the Public Collections of the Country. With Bibliographical and Historical Memoirs of their Lives and Actions. London: Lackington, Hughes, et al. 1821?34. 4 volumes, tall folios (419 x 267 mm). 240 engraved portraits. Contemporary full hard grain dark morocco elaborately paneled in gilt with filigree tooling, flattened raised bands, gilt scrollwork and tulip tooling in compartments, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, BOUND BY J. WRIGHT (joints a bit tender with gentle rubbing to spine ends, pale spotting or foxing to plates). Provenance: Henry B. Humphrey (engraved bookplate). From the private library of a prominent Chicago collector, part II.