Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 188

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(ENGRAVED GEMS.) Worlidge, Thomas. A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems; Most of them in the Possession of the Nobility and Gentry of This Kingdom. Etched frontispiece portrait (lightly offsetting onto title) and 182 plates of engraved gems. [12], 48 pages. 4to, 264x204 mm, early 19th-century 1/2 calf, rebacked; light foxing on text leaves, portrait, and several other plates, but most plates clean. wide-margined copy. London: Dryden Leach for M. Worlidge and M. Wicksteed, 1768 [or later?]