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
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3217066
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2],viii,xxxix,327,[1]p., plates (1 col., 2 folding). 4to. Imperfect: lacks half-title; errata on final page (not leaf, as above). Grangerized copy (?); contains front. portrait of the author and 33 engraved plates, two colored and folding. Booksellers' price inscriptions: Kn/-, 3/5/0 and 17/6; inscribed in pencil: A540. Provenance: Nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate: Greaves, with motto: Spes Mea in Deo [i.e. probably John Greaves of Irlam Hall, near Warrington (d. 1815)]; pen inscription on front flyleaf: R. W. Ketton-Cremer Felbrigg 1936 [Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century straight-grained morocco, wide gilt roll and double fillets, blind roll and fillets, gilt roll on board edges, four raised bands, gilt spine lettered Edwards's Anecdotes of Royal Academicians Illustrated With Portraits and Specimens. Pink endpapers, all edges gilt.
Makers and roles
Edward Edwards (1812 - 1886) Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717 - 1797)