 He is known for his "Catalogue of a Collection of Engraved Portraits, Comprising Nearly 20,000 Portraits of Persons Connected with this Country," undated and published at Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, where he died 24 Nov. 1835, aged 46.His widow, Anne E. Evans, and son, Edward David (1818–1860, brought out a second volume in 1853 at No.403 Strand, whither the business was moved in that year.