Walpole, Horace
Anecdotes of Painting in England
£1,008
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
… with Considerable Additions by the Rev. James Dallaway. London: at the Shakespeare Press, by W. Nicol, for John Major, 1826-8. 5 volumes, large 8vo, 20th-century blue crushed half morocco by Riviere & Son, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, all plates as called for (engravings on india paper, mounted).
Together with 5 others (these not fully collated), including: John Kay, A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Edinburgh, 1837 (2 volumes, 4to, contemporary half morocco, numerous etched plates, with 2 autograph notes signed by the editor Hugh Paton, one mounted to volume 2 front free endpaper, relating to the printing of the work and initialled ‘HP’, the other laid in, concerning the portrait of ‘Campbell the precentor’ and signed H. Paton); Lionel Cust, The National Portrait Gallery, 1902 (first edition, one of 750 copies, 5 volumes, 4to, contemporary red crushed morocco gilt by Maclehose of Glasgow, top edges gilt, japon doublures); The Tartans of the Clans and Septs of Scotland, Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnston, Limited, 1906 (one of 540 copies, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half morocco, chromolithographic plates of tartan patterns); and similar (17)
Provenance
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman.