Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 110

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
WALPOLE, HORACE. Anecdotes of Painting in England. 100 engraved plates. xiii, [1], 168, [22]; [2], 158, [58]; [2], 155, [11]; x, [2], 151, [9] pages. 4 volumes * A Catalogue of Engravers who have been born or resided in England. 9 engraved plates. [4], 128, 14, 20, [7] pages, including leaf of binder's directions. Together, 5 volumes. 4to, 221x177 mm, late 18th-/early 19th-century uniform calf gilt, all 4 volumes of the Anecdotes rebacked retaining original backstrips, Catalogue of Engravers spine ends chipped and covers detached; intermittent foxing, varying and occasionally heavy offsetting from plates, marginal dampstaining at end of first volume of the Anecdotes. Contemporary signature of John Brooks on titles. Strawberry Hill: Thomas Farmer, 1762-71; 1763 [i. e., 1764]

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first editions. Arntzen & Rainwater H127. Hazen, Strawberry Hill 10.