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2 Portrait of John Ogilby By Sir Peter Lely Oil on canvas 750 x 610 mm Lane Poole no. 146 |
John Ogilby (1600–76), one-time dance master, director of plays, translator, poet, and, most significantly, bookseller and publisher. As a publisher Ogilby specialized in
illustrated works, including the handsome folio Bible of 1660. Catalogue no.2
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Ogilby is represented by catalogue no. 1. | ||
R. Lane Poole, Catalogue of Portraits in the Possession of the University, Colleges, City, and County of Oxford (3 vols, Oxford, 1912–26), vol.1, p. 59. |
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