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A catalogue of engravers, who have been born, or resided in England / digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the mss. of Mr. George Vertue ; to which is added an account of the life and works of the latter.

Accession number
PML 7591
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, author.
Published
Strawberry-Hill : [H. Walpole], 1763
Notes
Portrait of Vertue correctly bound before ...
"The Life of Mr. George Vertue" 14 p. at end.
At end: p. 1-14 Life of George Vertue.
At end: p. 1-20 List of Vertue's works.
Companion volume to the author's Anecdotes of painting in England.
Includes indexes.
Description
[4], 128, 14, 20, [8] p., [9] leaves of plates : portraits ; 25 cm
Provenance
MS notes in the margins and on inserted leaves by an unidentified hand formerly said to be that of Walpole; from the collection of Philip Augustus Hanrott and at his sale, London 1834 bought by Hon. R. Fitzgibbon and has his armorial ex libris.
Binding
Dark blue morocco.
Classification
Department