A catalogue and description of King Charles the first's capital collection of pictures, limnings, statues, bronzes, medals, and other curiosities; now first published from an original manuscript in the Ashmolean Musaeum at Oxford. The whole transcribed and prepared for the press, and a great part of it printed, by the late ingenious Mr. Vertue, and now finished from his papers.
Abraham Van der Doort (d.1640)
Category
Books
Date
1757
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3217858
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], iv, 202 p. ; 4to. Provenance: manuscript former shelfmarks in pencil on front pastedown: "X5" (crossed-out) and "W5". Manuscript former shelfmark in pencil on rear pastedown: "X5". Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn onto three cords; five raised bands on spine; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title on brown leather label on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Abraham Van der Doort (d.1640) George Vertue (London 1684 - London 1756) Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717 - 1797)