Autograph note by biographer Reverend James Granger dated c1770

GRANGER, Reverend James (1723–1776). Autograph note, addressed to James Brindley, concerning William Meredith. [Circa 1770.]
 
Single leaf, written on one side in ink. Later mounted at the lower edge by a nineteenth-century collector, with contemporary bibliographical slips relating to Granger’s works affixed below. Light overall toning, edge wear, and a small area of staining; legible. About good. 
 
James Granger was Vicar of Shiplake and the compiler of A Biographical History of England (1769), the landmark work that gave rise to the practice of “Grangerizing” or extra-illustrating books through the insertion of portraits and documentary material. This brief autograph note is addressed to James Brindley, the noted bibliophile and Commissioner of the Stamp Office, and refers to William Meredith, situating it firmly within the circle of eighteenth-century collectors and antiquarian scholarship.
 
Granger’s autograph material is uncommon. A small piece of English bibliographical history, linking the originator of Grangerizing with one of the foremost collectors of the period.