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JAMES GRANGER (1723-1776)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 351 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES GRANGER (1723-1776)  ,
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English clergyman and
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print-
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collector, was born in Dorset in 1723 . He went to Oxford, and then entered
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holy orders, becoming vicar of Shiplake; but apart from his
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hobby of portrait-
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collecting, which resulted in the
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principal
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work associated with his name, and the publication of some sermons, his
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life was uneventful . Yet a new word was added to the language—" to grangerize "—on account of him . In 1769 he published in two
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quarto volumes a
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Biographical
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History of England " consisting of characters dispersed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved
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British heads "; this was " intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to a
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system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits." The work was supplemented in later
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editions by Granger, and still further editions were brought out by the Rev . Mark Noble, with additions from Granger's materials . Blank leaves were
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left for the filling in of engraved portraits for extra
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illustration of the text, and it became a favourite pursuit to discover such illustrations and insert them in a Granger, so that " grangerizing " became a
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term for such an extra-illustration of any work, especially with cuts taken from other books . The immediate result of the appearance of Granger's own work was the rise in value of books containing portraits, which were cut out and inserted in collector's copies .

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