WALPOLE, Horace.—Anecdotes of Painting in England; with some Account of the principal Artists; and incidental Notes on other Arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; and now digested and published from his original MSS. By Mr. Horace Walpole . . . Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill MDCCLXII [LXIII—LXXI] 4to, four volumes, red morocco, gilt back and side panels, gilt edges, by Henderson & Bisset.
One hundred and four plates of portraits. The fourth volume contains "The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening," and is printed by Thomas Kirgate. The "Additional Lives" are bound with the second and third volumes.
WALPOLE, Horace.—Anecdotes of Painting in England, with some Account of the principal Artists; and incidental Notes on other Arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; and now digested and published from his original MSS. By Mr. Horace Walpole . . . Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry Hill MDCCLXII. [III-XXI] 4to, four volumes, old red morocco, gilt back, gilt edges.
One hundred and four plates of portraits. The fourth volume, printed by Kirgate, contains "The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening." The "Additional Lives" are in the third volume.
WALPOLE, Horace.—Anecdotes of Painting in England; with some Account of the principal Artists; and incidental Notes on other Arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; digested and published from his Original MSS. By the Honourable Horace Walpole; with considerable additions by the Rev. James Dallaway London: printed at the Shakespeare Press, by W. Nicol, for John Major . . . MDCCCXXVIII. Royal 8vo, five volumes, citron levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bedford.
Large paper copy. The portraits and woodcuts published with these volumes are duplicated by the insertion of unlettered proofs on India paper. In addition, one hundred and twenty-two plates have been inserted, comprising twenty-four India proofs of English kings by Worthington, fifty-eight portraits from the Strawberry-Hill Press, a drawing by Harding of Horace Walpole as a child, etc.
WALPOLE, Horace.—A Catalogue of Engravers, who have been born, or resided in England; digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the MSS. of Mr. George Vertue; to which is added an Account of the Life and Works of the latter . . . Strawberry-Hill: Printed in the Year MDCCLXIII. 4to, red morocco, gilt back and side panels, gilt edges, by Henderson & Bisset.
First edition. Nine plates of portraits.
WALPOLE, Horace.—A Catalogue of Engravers. 1763. 4to, old red morocco, gilt back, gilt edges.
Another copy.