Anecdotes of painting in England; with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes of other arts; collected by the late George Vertue; and now digested and published from his original MSS, by Mr. Horace Walpole. The third edition, with additions
by VERTUE, GEORGE and Horace Walpole
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London: printed for J. Dodsley, 1782. 5 vols., 8vo, pp. [4], xiv, [2], 288, [32]; [4], 286, [82]; [4], 291, [13]; [2], [v]-vi, [v]-xvi, [2], 316, [20]; [2], 304, [6]; full contemporary calf with an early rebacking, old spines with red and black morocco labels laid down; spines darkened, but generally very good. With the ownership stamp at the top of each title of Francis Hiorne, F.S.A., and with his manuscript note on T2v regarding a volume of John Thorpe's drawings, purchased at a bookseller's shop in Whitehall and give to Francis Greville, Earl of Warwick, a few years before he died. Volume 4 is second edition; volume 5 is Walpole's Catalogue of Engravers. Hazen 14, citing the first edition of 1762-71.
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- Anecdotes of painting in England; with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes of other arts; collected by the late George Vertue; and now digested and published from his original MSS, by Mr. Horace Walpole. The third edition, with additions
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- VERTUE, GEORGE and Horace Walpole
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- printed for J. Dodsley
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1782
- Keywords
- Artists , Paintings , Painters ,
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