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. ...
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717 - 1797)
Category
Books
Date
1762 - 1780
Materials
Book, paper, calf binding.
Place of origin
Twickenham
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3003599
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v., plates : ports. ; 4to. Dates on title pages in Roman numerals in all vols. Provenance: Eighteenth-century manuscript inscription on second front free endpaper verso in all vols.: "Arabella Praed & Juliana Praed" [presumably Arabella Mackworth-Praed (d. 1843) m. 1792 John Bourke, 4th Earl of Mayo, and Juliana Mackworth-Praed (d. 1841?) m. 1785 Rev. Thomas William Shore]. Printed booklabel: 'Richard Hoare'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full Russia calf; single gilt fillet to form an outer border; sewn onto five raised bands; spines lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Walpole's Anecdotes' and 'I-[IV]'; gilt stamped suns in remaining spine compartments; single gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; marbled endpapers; green ribbon marker in each vol.
Makers and roles
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717 - 1797), author