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A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, designs in architecture, models, drawings, prints, &c.
Title
A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, designs in architecture, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited by the Society of Artists of Great Britain at the great room in Spring Garden, Charing Cross, April the twenty-third, 1765, being the sixth year of their exhibition.
Published
[London] : Printed for the Society, by William Bunce, Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, MDCCLXV [1765]
Physical Description
20 p. ; 24 cm.
Local Notes
Lewis Walpole Library 49 3885.2 v. 1: No. 9 in a collection of Horace Walpole's catalogues, with his notes throughout.
Notes
The catalog exists in two editions with the same t.p.; entries are listed in same order but in the variant the text is more compressed. In this edition, the vignette above the title "A Catalogue" only allows room for entries no. 1-3 to be listed on p. 3. On the variant, a vignette above the title "A Catalogue" is lacking which allows room for entries no. 1-8 on p. 3.
Variant of ESTC T72124.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Horace Walpole. Sold at the Strawberry Hill Sale, vii.149, to Smith, Lisle Street [London, 1160]; bound in four volumes by Riviere in half green morocco ca. 1850, apparently for John Sheepshanks whose bookplate is in the volumes. Sold at Sotheby's, 2 March 1891 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 826, to Harvey. Volumes 1-2, 4 were purchased by W.S. Lewis from Maggs in 1925; the third volume in 1928.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 12, 2012
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs - England - London - 1765.
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
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