B14042
Shelfmark
Cg.2.4.06 - Cg.2.4.09
Author
Walpole, Horace
Title
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. The second edition. Multa renascentur quae jam cecidere. ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Twickenham] :, printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry Hill,, 1765-1771 [1765-1780].
Physical description
4v, plates :, ports. ;, 4to.
Note
Dedication signed: Horace Walpole.
Note
With an unpaginated appendix, and index, at the end of each vol.
Note
Vol. 3 bears the imprint: "Strawberry-Hill: printed in the year 1765".
Note
Vol. 4 bears the imprint: "Strawberry-Hill: printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1771"; it has no edition statement, but is numbered "Volume the Fourth and last"; the Advertisement to the reader is dated on p. x: October 1, 1780.
Note
A continuation was issued as 'A catalogue of engravers'.
Note
Extra-illustrated with many engravings.
Citation/references note
Hazen. Strawberry Hill, 10; ESTC T63190
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 8533, no. 05).
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn.: Primary Source Media, 1999. 1 reel ; 35 mm. t63190. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 8534, no. 01).
Provenance
Storer bequest label dated 1800; bequeathed to Eton by Anthony Morris Storer in 1799.
Binding
18th century red, gold-tooled morocco.
Subject
Painters, Early works to 1800, England.
Subject
Artists, Early works to 1800, England.
Subject
Painting, History, England.
Added entry--name
Vertue, George
Added entry--name
Storer, Anthony Morris, former owner.
Added entry--place
England, London.
B14042
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