British Art History and Portraiture - The Brocket Hall Copy:...

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£380

British Art History and Portraiture - The Brocket Hall Copy: British Portrait Painters and Engravers of the Eighteenth Century, Kneller to Reynolds, with an Introductory Essay and Biographical Notes by Edmund Gosse, LL.D., Fine Paper Copy: numbered 246/400, Paris: Goupil & Co, 1906, illustrated with full-page monochrome mezzotints engraved by Manzi, Joyant & Co., the mezzotint frontispiece coloured as issued, contemporary half-red morocco gilt over cloth, Adamesque spine of six compartments, lettered in the second and dated in the sixth, raised bands, top-edge gilt, marbled endpapers, Golden Age Armorial bookplates: Sir Charles Nall-Cain Bt [1866-1934], engraved by J.F. Badeley and dated 1930, his later bookplate as Baron Brocket, large crown folio; Gower (Lord Ronald Sutherland, F.S.A.), Sir Thomas Lawrence, with a Catalogue of the Artist's Exhibited and Engraved Works, Compiled by Algernon Graves, numbered limited edition of 190/200, F.S.A., Paris: Goupil & Co., 1900, full-page plates, contemporary half-red morocco over cloth, top-edge gilt, plain endpapers, conforming provenance and bookplates as the latter with a later bookplate: Charles A. Cain, large crown folio; Armstrong (Sir Walter), Gainsborough & His Place in English Art, with Sixty-Two Photogravures and Ten Lithographic Facsimiles in Colour, second edition, limited edition of 250, London: William Heinemann, 1899, similarly bound to the latter, marbled endpapers, Ex Libris Laurentii Currie, with Bernard Quaritch - their pencilled collation and note to free endpaper, large crown folio, [3]