28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 125
 

125

Strawberry Hill Press. Anecdotes of Painting in England ... Collected by the late Mr. George...

Strawberry Hill Press. Anecdotes of Painting in England ... Collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; and now digested and published from his original MSS. By Mr. Horace Walpole, [volume 1 only, of 5], 1st edition, [Twickenham]: printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, 1762. 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, 14 engraved plates including frontispiece, bookplate of Edmund Turnor (1756-1829) of Stoke Rochford, antiquary and landowner, together with - Binding. From a Venetian Balcony. And Other Poems of Venice and the Near Lands by Lady Lindsay. Pen Sketches by Clara Montalba, 2nd edition, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1904. Small 8vo (170 x 107 mm), contemporary hand-painted vellum gilt probably by Giuseppe Giannini of Florence, inset view of a bridge spanning a canal within raised gilt frame to front cover, tawed deerskin tie (with loss), bookplate of Christopher Turnor (1873-1940), annotation 'Given me by Hubert Miller, Aug 7. 1907' to front free endpaper - [Turnor, Edmund, 1756-1829, compiler]. Sammelband of antiquarian pamphlets, 1800-21. 8vo, contemporary half calf (spine worn), texts comprising: 1) Bonney, Historic Notices in Reference to Fotheringhay, 1st edition, Oundle, 1821, with engraved plates; 2) Knight, A Circumstantial Account of the Preparations for the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles the Second, 1st edition, 1820, with aquatint plates; 3) Dodson, The Life of Michael Forster ... one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, and Recorded or Bristol, 1st edition, 1811; 4) Paley, A Short Memoir of the Life of Edmund Law, Bishop of Carlisle, Re-Printed, 1800; 5) Disney, A Short Memoir of Michael Dodson, 1800) - Blessington (Marguerite, Countess of). Heath's Book of Beauty. 1844. 4t, original green half half, engraved portrait plates, bookplate of Christopher Turnor (1873-1940) (qty: 4) Sold as seen, not subject to return.

Sold for £180
Estimated at £70 - £100


 

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