Anecdotes of painting in England: with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; and now digested and published from his original MSS. by Mr. Horace Walpole. The second edition. ..
By Horace Walpole
- Release Date: 1765-01-01
- Genre: Fiction & Literature
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Anecdotes of painting in England: with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; and now digested and published from his original MSS. by Mr. Horace Walpole. The second edition. ... [pt.2], Horace Walpole. Anecdotes of painting in England: with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; and now digested and published from his original MSS. by Mr. Horace Walpole. The second edition. ... Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. 4v.,plates : ports. ; 4⁰. [Twickenham] : Printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry-Hill, 1765-71 [1765-80] Dedication signed: Horace Walpole. With an unpaginated appendix, and index, at the end of each vol. Vol. 3 bears the imprint: "Strawberry-Hill: printed in the year 1765". Vol. 4 bears the imprint: "Strawberry-Hill: printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1771"; it has no edition statement, but is numbered "Volume the Fourth and last"; the Advertisement to the reader is dated on p. x: October 1, 1780. A continuation was issued as 'A catalogue of engravers'. Reproduction of original from the British Library. Hazen. Strawberry Hill, 10 English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT63190. Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Page image (PNG). Digitized image of the microfilm version produced in Woodbridge, CT by Research Publications, 1982-2002 (later known as Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group).
