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GRANGER, JAMES (1723-1776)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 351 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GOA-GRA
GRANGER, JAMES (1723-1776) , English clergyman and
print
 -collector, was born in Dorset in 1723. He went to
Oxford
 , and then entered holy orders, becoming
vicar
  of Shiplake; but apart from his
hobby
  of portrait-collecting, which resulted in the
principal
 
work
  associated with his name, and the publication of some sermons, his life was uneventful. Yet a new word was added to the language" to grangerize "on account of him. In 1769 he published in two quarto volumes a Biographical History of England " consisting of characters dispersed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads "; this was " intended as an essay towards reducing our
biography
  to a system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits." The
work
  was supplemented in later editions by Granger, and still further editions were brought out by the Rev. Mark Noble, with additions from Granger's materials. Blank leaves were left for the filling in of engraved portraits for extra
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
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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