Catalogue: Reference Books for Sale
Catalogue of Cambridge Portraits. 1 The University Collection.
by J.W. Goodison. M.A., F.S.A. Assitant Director, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Cambridge at the University Press 1955.
Book: 4to (250 x 152mm). Cloth binding with gilt title stamped on spine. One Volume only. Ex Leggatt. Dust jacket slight torn and dirty.
A catalogue of some portraits held by Colleges and the University of Cambridge as a whole.
[Ref: 10132] £45.00
A Catalogue of Twenty Thousand Engraved Portraits, chiefly of personages connected with the History and Literature of Great Britain, on sale at the annexed prices
by John Russell Smith, 36, Soho Square, W. London. MDCCCLXXXIII. [1883].
Book: 4to (211 x 142mm). Cloth binding with title stamped on spine in gilt. Binding word and rubbed, spine in particular.
A catalogue of the engraved portraits on sale by J.R. Smith.
[Ref: 10142] £60.00
Catalogue of a Collection of Engraved Portraits, the Largest ever submitted to the Public; compromising nearly twenty thousand portraits of persons connected with the History and Literature of this Country, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. with an Enumeration of the Circumstances connecting the eminent persons with the various counties of Great Britain, preferments of the Clergy, &c. Alphabetically arranged with the names of the painter and engraver, and the size of each plate. "Let a man read a character in Clarendon, and he will find it improved by seeing the Portrait of the Person." J. Richardson.
Now on Sale at the Reasonable Price affixed to each Print by Edward Evans, Book and Print Seller, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. [n.d. c.1836-1853]
Book: 4to (216 x 132mm). Morocco leather spine with board covers. Spine leather pulling away, binding worn and torn.
A catalogue and listing of engraved British portraits.
[Ref: 10141] £120.00
Catalogue Raisonné of Engraved British Portraits from Altered Plates
from the notes of George Somes Layard arranged by H.M.Latham with an Introduction by the Marquess of Sligo.
London, Philip Allan & Co. Ltd. Quality Court. 1927.
Book: 4to (284 x 222mm). Cloth binding with 'Westminster Public Libraries' stamp on the front cover, and the title stamped on the spine in gilt. Binding worn.
A catalogue raisonné describing the origins and circumstances for which various British Portraits took the same form, with small alterations made to the plates, thus creating similar portrait features and surroundings for one or more different sitters. Limited edition 300
[Ref: 10177] £120.00
British Mezzotinto Portraits; being a Descriptive Catalogue of these Engravings from the Introduction of the Art to the early part of the present Century. Arranged according to the Engravers; the Inscriptions given at full length; and the Variations of State precisely set forth; Accompanied by Biographical Notes; And Appendix of a Selection of the Prices produced at Public Sales by some of the Specimens, down to the present time. In Four Parts. Part the First.
by John Chaloner Smith, B.A. M.R.I.A., M. INST. C.E.
London : Henry Sotheran & Co., 36 Piccadilly; And J. Noseda, 109 Strand. 1883.
Book: 4to (258 x 179mm). Cloth binding with title label stuck onto spine. 476 pages. Broken spine. Rubbed and scuffed binding.
A narrative catalogue of British Mezzotint portraits; part one.
[Ref: 10366] £65.00
British Mezzotinto Portraits; being a Descriptive Catalogue of these Engravings from the Introduction of the Art to the early part of the present Century. Arranged according to the Engravers; the Inscriptions given at full length; and the Variations of State precisely set forth; Accompanied by Biographical Notes; And Appendix of a Selection of the Prices produced at Public Sales by some of the Specimens, down to the present time. In Four Parts. Part the Second.
by John Chaloner Smith, B.A. M.R.I.A., M. INST. C.E.
London : Henry Sotheran & Co., 36 Piccadilly; And J. Noseda, 109 Strand. 1883.
Book: 4to (258 x 179mm). Cloth binding with title label stuck onto spine. 493 pages. Binding torn and worn. Some tears in the pages.
A narrative catalogue of British Mezzotint portraits; part two.
[Ref: 10368] £80.00
A Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits From Egbert the Great to the Present Time. Consisting of the Effigies of Persons in Every Walk of Human Life; as well those whose services to their country are recorded in the annals of the English History, as others whose eccentricity of character rendered them conspiuous in their day. With an Appendix, containing the Portraits of such foreigneres as either by alliance with the Royal Families of, or Residence as visitors in this Kingdom, or by deriving from it some title of distinction, may claim a place in the British Series. Methodically disposed in Classes, and interspersed with a number of Notices Biographical and Genealogical, never before published.
by Henry Bromley.
London., Printed fro T. Paune, Mews Gate; J.Edwards. Pall-Mall; W. Otridge and Son; and R. Faulder, New Bond Street. MDCCXCIII. [1793].
Book: 4to (266 x 202mm). Marble board binding. Spine label peeled away. Some spotting.
A two part catalogue of engraved British portraits.
[Ref: 10193] £120.00
(i) Illustrated Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Portraits of English Historical Personages who died prior to the Year 1625. Exhibited in the Examination schools, Oxford under the Auspices of a Committee of the Oxford Historical Society April and May, MDCCCCIIII [1904]. (ii) Illustrated Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Portraits of English Historical Personages who died between 1625 and 1714. Exhibited in the Examination Schools, Oxford April and May, MDCCCCV [1905]. (iii) Illustrated Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Portraits of English Historical Personages who died between 1714 and 1837. Exhibited in the Examination Schools, Oxford April and May, MDCCCCVI [1906].
Henry Frowde, M.A. Publisher to the University of Oxford, London, Edinburgh, New York (ii & iii) and Toronto.
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, (i) 1904. (ii) 1905. (iii) 1906.
Book: 3 Vols. 4to (282 x 221mm). Board binding with title stamped in gilt along spine. (i) 60 textual pages plus illustrations. (ii) 104 textual pages plus illustrations. (iii) 106 pages plus illustrations. Binding worn.
Three narrative catalogues with illustrations of a collection of British Historical portraits exhibited in Oxford. Ex Leggatts.
[Ref: 10426] £120.00
(i) Historical Portraits Richard II to Henry Wriothesley 1400-1600. The Lives by C.R.L. Fletcher; Formerly Fellow of All Souls and Magdalen Colleges. The Portraits chosen by Emery Walker; Fellow of the Society of Antiquities. With an Introduction on the History of Portraiture in England. [&] (ii) Historical Portraits 1700-1850. The Lives by C.R.L. Fletcher; Formerly Fellow of All Souls and Magdalen Colleges. The Portraits chosen by Emery Walker; Fellow of the Society of Antiquities. With an Introduction by C.F. Bell. Part I (Vol.III of the Series) 1700-1800. [&] (iii) Part II (Vol. IV of the Series) 1800-1850.
(i) Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1909 [&] (ii & iii) Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1919.
Book: three volumes. 4to (255 x 194mm). Cloth binding with gilt title stamped into the spine.(i) a hand written letter to Mr Leggatt from the Ashmolean Museum dated 1919. (i) Binding worn with some rubbing(ii)Binding slightly worn. Small tear hole in the first page. (iii) Binding worn with some staining.
Three illustrated volumes of historical portraits. Ex Leggatt.
[Ref: 10143] £12.00
Portrait Miniatures.
Texy by Dr. George C. Williamson. Edited by Charles Holme.
MCMX 'The Studio' Ltd. London, Paris, New York. [1910].
Book: 4to (286 x 207mm). Cloth binding with stamped title along the spine. Ex Leggatt. Some scuffing and rubbing to the binding.
A comprehensive narrative on miniature portraits.
[Ref: 10146] £30.00