Accession number
PML 4351-53
Creator
Worlidge, T. (Thomas), 1700-1766.
Published
London : Printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidge ... and M. Wicksteed ... , 1768.
Notes
1st ed.
At end of volume 3, the text in French with the title: Collection Choisie de desseins tirés de pierres precieuses antiques.
Contains 180 engravings of gems. Volume 1 has 52, volume 2 has 75 and volume 3 has 53 plates.
In volume one, bound after p. 48 are two advertisements printed on two folio leaves of (1) A Catalogue of Mr. Worlidge's Prints, and of his Collection of Antique Gems, ... from the most Capital Gems in the Cabinets of Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain... and (2) Mr. Worlidge's Collection of Antique Gems.
The English cabinets represented are those of the Lords Montague, Bessbourough, Devonshire, Marlbourough Portland, Northumberland, Grey, Exeter, Radnor, Clanbrassil, Warwick, Leeds, Newnham. The gentry are represented by Armytage, Hope, Robinson, Dundaso, Dr. Chauncey, John Tomlinson, P. Snell, Jr., Matthew Duane, Dr. Fothergill, Carlisle, P.C. Webb, Seymour, Stanley and Fitzhugh.
At end of volume 3, the text in French with the title: Collection Choisie de desseins tirés de pierres precieuses antiques.
Contains 180 engravings of gems. Volume 1 has 52, volume 2 has 75 and volume 3 has 53 plates.
In volume one, bound after p. 48 are two advertisements printed on two folio leaves of (1) A Catalogue of Mr. Worlidge's Prints, and of his Collection of Antique Gems, ... from the most Capital Gems in the Cabinets of Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain... and (2) Mr. Worlidge's Collection of Antique Gems.
The English cabinets represented are those of the Lords Montague, Bessbourough, Devonshire, Marlbourough Portland, Northumberland, Grey, Exeter, Radnor, Clanbrassil, Warwick, Leeds, Newnham. The gentry are represented by Armytage, Hope, Robinson, Dundaso, Dr. Chauncey, John Tomlinson, P. Snell, Jr., Matthew Duane, Dr. Fothergill, Carlisle, P.C. Webb, Seymour, Stanley and Fitzhugh.
Description
3 v., [180] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm
Provenance
The Earl of Bessborough's subscription copy. From the Gosford and Toovey collection.
Binding
Red morocco, gilt.
Classification
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Department