Excerpt from Catalogue of a Collection of Engraved Portraits, the Largest Ever Submitted to the Public: Comprising Nearly Twenty Thousand Portraits of Persons Connected With the History and Literature of This Country, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time; With an Enumeration of the Circumstances Connecting the Most Eminent Persons Bagwell, Wm. Merchant of London, author of Mystery of Astronomy, &c. Ob. 1659. Copy of a scarce print by Faithorne, 4to. 18. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.