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Author: Walpole, Horace
Title: Anecdotes of painting in England ... 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.
Publication: London, "printed at the Shakespeare Press, by W.Nicol, for John Major, Fleet Street, and Robert Jennings, Poultry" 1828.
Price: £650
Reference: 05502
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Large 8vo. 5 vols. xxii + (1) + 367 + (1)pp, 14 engr plates, 1 full-page woodcut ill not included in pagination, 4 other woodcut ills ; (8) + 414 + (6)pp, 17 engr plates, 19 woodcut ills (1 full-page) ; (8) + 312 + (8)pp, 17 engr plates, 35 woodcut ills (1 full-page) ; xxv + (3) + 326 + (6)pp, 16 engr plates, 16 woodcut ills (1 full-page) ; (8) + viii + 382pp, 16 engr plates, 10 woodcut ills (1 full-page). Contemporary quarter morocco, the spines neatly repaired for minor damage at their tops. Some spotting to plates, with offsetting on title leaves, but essentially a good set, with the text pages in clean, fresh condition.
The most widely read edition of Walpole's Anecdotes in nineteenth-century Britain, made more user-friendly than Dodsley's editions of the 1780s by the fact that it is in a slightly larger format and by the addition of illustrations, new editorial notes and a better index (at the end of vol.5).