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VERTUE, GEORGE. A Catalogue and Description of King Charles the First's Capital Collection of Pictures, Limnings, Statues, Bronzes, Medals, and Other Curiosities.Now first published from an Original Manuscript in the Ashmolean Musaeum at Oxford. [2], iv, 8, 202 pages. 4to, 228x178 mm, early 19th-century green straight-grain morocco gilt, scuffed, with 2 small stains on front cover; occasional faint browning; cloth slipcase. London: William Bathoe, 1757
first edition. With 4-page preliminary Advertisement by Horace Walpole. This copy includes the 8-page inventory of Pictures belonging to King Charles the First printed later, and extraneous contemporary engravings of Charles I and Whitehall. Hazen, Walpole 43; Rothschild 2484.
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