BIRCH, THOMAS. The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain with their Lives and Characters Engraved by Mr. Houbraken and Mr. Vertue with their Lives and Characters. 108 engraved portrait plates, including frontispiece. [4], 216 pages. Folio, contemporary straight-grain red morocco gilt extra, extremely skillfully rebacked utilizing original backstrip, discrete embossed shelfmark in gilt at base of spine; endpapers renewed; embossed library stamps on frontispiece, title, plate list, and upper-left corner of plates; ink library stamp on verso of title; marginal tear to [T2], scattered foxing to text, sometimes quite heavy, plate-to-text offsetting. sold as is. London: William Baynes, 1813