Anecdotes of painters who have resided or been born in England; : with critical remarks on their productions; / by Edward Edwards, [...] Intended as a continuation to the Anecdotes of painting by the late Horace Earl of Orford.
Edward Edwards (1812 - 1886)
Category
Books
Date
1808
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3079689
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], viii, xxxix, 327, [1] p., plates (1 col., 2 folding) ; 4to. Large paper issue. Extra illustrated: contains frontis. port. and 33 additional engraved plates (2 col. views by Gainsborough). Pencil number: "74375" on title page. Bookseller's pencil notes about illustrations on front free endpaper verso. Ephemera: Clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy (price cut out) tipped-in on front free endpaper. Provenance: Nineteenth-century pencil inscription on front free endpaper verso: "Formerly in the Possession of Sir Thomas Lawrence R A M" [i.e. Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830)]. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate (Franks 17769): "Thomas Lawrence". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Early nineteenth-century full green morocco; gilt and blind tooled panel design on boards; sewn onto five recessed cords; five false bands; spine gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Edwards's Anecdotes of Royal Academicians Illustrated with portraits & specimens'; gilt rolled board edges corners and turn-ins; gilt textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Edward Edwards (1812 - 1886), author Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717 - 1797), author