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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 195351-54
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Published
Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer, 1762-1771.
Credit line
Gift of Charles Ryskamp, 2009.
Notes
Vols. 1 and 2 printed by Thomas Farmer; vol. 4 printed by Thomas Kirgate.
The advertisement at the beginning of v. 4 is dated October 1. 1780.
Title vignettes.
First ed.
Vol. II with the "Additional Lives," pp. 1-12 with three plates at end (Hazen p. 61) but without leaf of advertisements of Vertue's catalogues of pictures (Hazen p. 57).
Vol. III with the "Additional Lives," p. 1-4 with one plate at end (Hazen p. 62).
Description
4 v. : front. ports. ; 23 cm
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of C. Bethell-Codrington.
Binding
Red morocco, gilt tooled, marbled flyleaves, all edges gilt, in half red morocco box.
Classification
Department