Lely & the Stuart portrait painters . a study of English portraiture before & after Van Dyck: by C. H. Collins Baker with 240 reproductions after the original pictures.
Charles Henry Collins Baker (1880 - 1959)
Category
Books
Date
1912
Materials
Place of origin
England
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Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3143390
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates . ill., ports.. . 4to.. Copy No. 1 "of the ordinary edition". - Pencil ms on flyleaf of vol. 1: "E/DIR/1 2a". - Christies Lot No. 5023/2. Provenance: Large pictorial bookplate with view of Tyntesfield with coat of arms and armour below; "En Dios Mi Amparo Esperanza" "Tenax Propositi" [i.e. family motto] "George Abraham Gibbs, of Tyntesfield" [i.e. George Abraham 1st Baron Wraxall (1873-1931)] in both vols.. Binding: Twentieth-century red morocco; gold-tooled spine, boards, board edges and inners; gilt edges; signed: "Bumpus Ltd. Oxford St. W"; with red silk placeholders.
Makers and roles
Charles Henry Collins Baker (1880 - 1959)