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 9330

Creator

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, author.

Published

Strawberry-Hill : [H. Walpole], 1763.

Notes

Companion volume to the author's Anecdotes of painting in England.
References: Hazen, A.T. Strawberry Hill Press, pages 55-60.
Includes indexes.
Portrait of George Vertue used as a frontispiece instead of being bound before "The Life of Mr. George Vertue" as directed on the engraving.
First edition

Description

[4], 128, 14, 20, [8] pages, [9] leaves of plates : portraits ; 25 cm

Provenance

From the MacCarthy collection (no. 5455); with the armorial book-plates of Comte H. De la Bedoyere and of Robert Samuel Turner. From the Toovey collection.

Binding

Red morocco by Derome.

Classification

Book

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Department

Printed Books