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Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue / and digested and published from his original Mss. by Mr. Horace Walpole ...

Accession number
PML 9326
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, author.
Published
Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer, 1762-1771.
Notes
First edition.
The advertisement at the beginning of v. 4 is dated October 1. 1780.
Title vignettes.
Vol. II without the "Additional Lives." (Hazen p. 61 states p. 1-12 with three plates at end). And without leaf of advertisements of Vertue's catalogues of pictures (Hazen p. 57).
Vol. III without the "Additional Lives" (Hazen p. 62 says p. 1-4 with one plate at end).
Volumes 1 and 2 printed by Thomas Farmer; volume 4 printed by Thomas Kirgate.
Without the additional lives to vols. 2-3, 1768.
Description
4 volumes : front. portraits. ; 23 cm
Provenance
From the MacCarthy-Reagh collection (no. 5455); with armorial exlibris of Comte H. De La Bedoyere and of Robert Samuel Turner. From the Toovey collection.
Binding
Red morocco, gilt.
Classification
Department