Boydell, John, an English engraver and print-seller, famous for his “Shakespeare Gallery,” with 96 plates in illustration of Shakespeare, and the encouragement he gave to native artists; he issued also Hume's “History of England,” with 196 plates in illustration (1719‒1804).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Boyd, Zachary * Boyer, Baron