Engraved portrait by Augustus Fox [from painting by Nathaniel Drake].
Author:
Thomas Gent (1693-1778), printer and topographer of York [Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), London bookseller]
Publication details:
Published by T. Thorpe, 38, Bedford Street, Covent Garden.' [1832]
£45.00
SKU: 4903
Dimensions of paper roughly eight inches by five; dimensions of print four and a quarter inches by three and a half. Good clean image, on paper aged and creased at extremities only. A wild-haired octogenarian Gent leans on a pile of books in a stone archway, holding open a copy of his History of Rippon (1733). Taken from Thorpe's edition of Gent's 'Life', published in 1832.