A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, designs in architecture, prints, &c. / exhibited by the Royal Incorporated Society of Artists of Great Britain at Mr. Philips's new great room in Piccadilly, near Air-Street, April the twenty-fourth, 1778, the nineteenth year of exhibiting.

London : Printed for the Society by T. Bensley, No. 2, Swan-Yard, Strand, MDCCLXXVIII [1778]

20 p. ; 24 cm.

Lewis Walpole Library 49 3885.2 v. 2: No. 9 in a collection of Horace Walpole's catalogues, with entries nos. 307-311 on p. 20 written in ms. in John Sheepshank's hand.

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 in 1925; the third volume in 1928.

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June 01, 2002

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