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 195355

Creator

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.

Published

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

Credit line

Gift of Charles Ryskamp, 2009.

Notes

Companion volume to the author's Anecdotes of painting in England.
Includes indexes.

Description

[4], 128, 14, 20, [8] p., [9] leaves of plates : ports. ; 24 cm (4to)

Provenance

Armorial bookplate of C. Bethell-Codrington.

Binding

Red morocco, gilt tooled, marbled flyleaves, all edges gilt, in half red morocco box.

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