Anecdotes Painting England by Horace Walpole, First Edition (16 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. New Edition. With additions by the Rev. James Dallaway, and vertue's catalogue of engravers who have been born or resided in England. A new edition, revised, with additional notes by Ralph N. wornum. Volume II of three volumes. Endpapers foxed. Slightly bumped at spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0.0.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original Engraving, A Plate From Ann Eighteenth Century Book, Probably Walpole's (Page Reference "P. 229" At Upper Right). Part Of A Large Collection Of Original Antique Engravings Formed By A Southern California Artist In The Early To Middle Twentieth Century. Each Plate Has Small Glue Marks On Reverse Where They Were Tipped In To An Album. Cornelis Van Poelenburch Was One Of The Very Few Painters Of The Dutch Golden Age To Acquire International Renown During His Lifetime. Only Three Dutch Artists Were Honoured With Mentions By All Of The Seventeenth-Century Biographers Who Included Netherlandish Artists, The Others Being Rembrandt And Gerrit Dou. His Paintings Were Prized By Well-To-Do And Often Aristocratic Collectors Who Were Willing To Pay High Prices For Them. Grand-Duke Cosimo Ii De' Medici, For Example, Kept Four Of Poelenburch's Paintings In His Private Quarters And Stadholder Frederick Henry And His Consort Owned More Works By Him Than Any Other Dutch Artist. He Was A Pupil Of The Influential Utrecht Painter Abraham Bloemaert, Worked For Eight Years In Italy, And Except For A Period Of Four Years When He Lived In London And Received An Annual Stipend From King Charles I, Spent The Rest Of His Life In Utrecht. Poelenburch'S Idyllic, Mostly Small-Sized Landscapes On Copper Or Panel And Done In A Highly Refined Style And Technique Usually Feature A 'History': A Biblical, Mythological Or Pastoral Subject. Nowadays He Is Known Primarily As The Leading Artist Of The First Generation Of 'Italianate' Landscape Painters, But In His Own Time He Was Lauded Mainly For His Lively Figures With Their Crisp Contours And Animated Gestures.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original Engraving, A Plate From The Book (Page Reference "P.106" At Upper Right). Part Of A Large Collection Of Original Antique Engravings Formed By A Southern California Artist In The Early To Middle Twentieth Century. Each Plate Has Small Glue Marks On Reverse Where They Were Tipped In To An Album.

Condition: Collectible; Acceptable. [18TH CENTURY EDITION] London: J. Dodsley, 1782. Full Leather Hardcovers. 5 volumes total; 4 volume set of 'Anecdotes of Painting in England'; plus 1 uniformly bound companion volume: 'Engravers in England'; Vols. 1 - 3 are 3rd Editions, Vol. 4 is a 2nd edition, and 'Engravers'; is an apparent 1st Edition. A rough set with detached or separating boards (vol. 2 boards missing) etc. but otherwise complete and with the Rare companion title.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition thus. Reprint of 1876 edition, published by Chatto and Windus. Includes additional materials prepared by James Dallaway; further revisions and added notes and numerous new ilustrations by Ralph N. Wornum. The work was further augmented by Frederick W. Hilles and Philip B. Daghlian, who collected hitherto unpublished manuscripts by Walpole, published as, "Anecdotes of Painting in England 1760-1795," published in 1937 and is included as the fourth volume of Arno's uniformly bound edition. [from publisher].

First edition. 8vo. 3 volumes. v1: [xxxii], 351 pp. / v2: [viii], 306 pp. / v3: 354 pp. Frontispieces. Plates. Woodcuts. Cloth bindings, gilt embossed lettering, Otis Art Institute book-plate, very good set. (42871).

Leather. Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Various (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8 lbs B&W Illustrations; 8VO; XXXII+352; + VIII+336; + VIII+354 pages; Copiously illustrated in both full page and textual b/w rendering. By the author of the famous Strawberry Hill Press. 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Armorial book plates of Reginald Arthur Catton. With wear to extremities. Contents VG fine binding in maroon calf with gilding over marbled boards with matching end papers. A number of illustrations through out.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. THREE VOLUME SET,original cloth hardcover,illustrated throughout,351,336 & 354 pages,top and bottom of spine lightly rubbed,attractive bookplate,otherwise a very good bright and complete set.We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the UK.Shelf B77.

1st edition hardback in original cloth Very Good octavo xxxii + 351, 352-720, 721-910pp., engravings, appendix, index, Some wear to boards o/w a nice, clean, tight set.

Original Cloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition thus. First Printing of the Dallaway and Wornum edition, a "New Edition, Revised, with Additional Notes," complete in three volume in original cloth. Demy 8vo (220 x 135mm): xxxii,351,[1]; [5],352-479,514-720; [4],721-1007,[2],[Appendix & Index]482-510,[36]pp, with three tissue-guarded frontispiece portraits and 77 further full-page plates, plus 89 wood engravings. Pagination irregular, but text continuous throughout. Original publisher's brown cloth, covers elaborately stamped in blind, spines lettered and numbered in gilt, pale yellow end papers. A few leaves roughly opened, but a truly spectacular set in publisher's original bindings with bright gilt; largely unopened, tightly bound, pages and plates virtually pristine. Hazen (Strawberry Hill), p. 66. Lowndes V, p. 2820. Originally published in 1762, this revised edition, based on an edition issued between 1826 and 1828 ("with considerable additions") edited by the antiquarian James Dallaway, is the first with notes by Ralph N. Wornum. Late in life, Walpole, 4th Earl of Oxford, described the Anecdotes as "the only thing I ever published of any use." It was mainly based on the archives (40 volumes of manuscripts relating to English painters, sculptors, engravers, and architects) that Walpole purchased in 1758 from the widow of engraver George Vertue, which Walpole later wrote contained "an infinite quantity of new and curious things." (ODNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Leather. Condition: Good Only. Various (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of Horace Walpole's extensive work on painters, complete with many plates. The first edition.Four volumes bound in two, being the three volumes of 'Anecdotes of Painting in England', alongside one volume of the continuation 'A Catalogue of Engravers'.Without Volume IV of 'Anecdotes of Painting in England', which was published in 1780.Volume I of 'Anecdotes of Painting in England' is illustrated with a frontispiece, and fifteen plates.Volume II of 'Anecdotes of Painting in England' is illustrated with twenty-five plates.Volume III of 'Anecdotes of Painting in England' is illustrated with thirty-seven plates.'A Catalogue of Engravers' is illustrated with nine plates.Collated, all plates are present.'Anecdotes of Painting in England' is an interesting history of painting in England, discussing anecdotes of various painters throughout English history. In this work, the author and editor depict the Georgian social and political scene through memoirs and notes on arts, painting, and engraving, and is a useful primary source of historians despite being "heavily biased".Included are the state of painting in the reign of Henry III to Henry VII, painters in the reign of Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth, architecture during the reign of Henry VIII, artists during the interregnum and the reign of Charles II, architectures during the reign of Charles II, an account of William Hogarth, the architects in the reign of George II, painters of enamel and miniature in the reign of George II, and finally, the history of modern gardening.George Vertue was an engraver and antiquary. He kept notebooks on British art for the first half of the eighteenth century, on which this work was based off. He spent most of his life researching the history of British art, accumulating forty notebooks of research.Horace Walpole purchased these notebooks and edited them, basing 'Anecdotes of Painting in England' upon these notebooks. Walpole was an art historian and politician, also the writer of the first Gothic novel 'The Castle of Otranto'. In a full calf binding, all boards but the rear board of Volume II are detached but present. Externally, a little rubbed with some marks to the boards and spines. Small patch of loss and a wormhole to the rear joint of Volume II. Light bumping and loss to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities. Rear hinge of Volume II is strained. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean, with a few scattered spots. The occasional ink note to the margins. Good Only. book.

Hardcover. First Edition. Contemporary brown leather binding with mounted red and black title and volume cards on the spines, with gilt lettering and illustration; marbled endpapers; black cloth bookmark; two books, the first with the heraldic bookplate of Thos. Patten of Bank, Esq. the second volume showing the remains of said bookplate. Book 1:Frontis, tp, (iii-XII), Contents of the First Volume, pp. 1- 168, [14 pp. Appendix followed by 6 pp. Indexes, and 1 pp. Errata]. Contents of second volume, Vol. 2: TP, pp. 1-158, [51 pp. Appendix, followed by 6 pp. of Indexes and 1 p. Errata. Book 2: Contents of third Volume: TP dated 1763, pp. 1-155, [Appendix of 3 pp. followed by Indexes of 8 pp. and one pages of Advertisement], Catalogue of Engravers TP, dated 1763, (2 blank sides, Directions to The Printer), pp. 1-128, (blank), Portrait of George Vertue followed by 14 pp., List of Vertue's Works (20 pp.) followed by Indexes (7 pp.) All four title-pages bear the signature of Thos. Patten, Junr. Volumes 1,2,3 are richly illustrated, the last part less so. These volumes were printed at Strawberry Hill Estate by Walpole. There is a biography section at the back of the second volume and, in additon, a page advertising "Lately Published" works from the publisher. Book one contains 39 plates and 1 frontispiece. Book two contains 46 plates. "This, the most ambitious of Walpole's works, was based on forty notebooks compiled by George Vertue, the engraver and antiquary (1684-1756), with a view to writing the first history of painting in England. Walpole records in âShort Notes' and the âJournal of the Printing Office' that he bought Vertue's notebooks and drawings from Vertue's widow in 1758 for £100 and that in 1759 he âbegan to look over the notebooks in order to compose the lives of English painters.' The result was 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, 4 vols. 1762-71." "Walpole's Preface states that owing to the paucity of native-born geniuses, England âhas not a single volume to show on the works of its painters. This very circumstance may with reason prejudice the reader against a work, the chief business of which must be to celebrate the arts of a country which has produced so few good artists. This objection is so striking, that instead of calling it The Lives of English Painters, I have simply given it the title of Anecdotes of Painting in England. The indefatigable pains of Mr. Vertue left nothing unexplored that could illuminate his subject, and collaterally led him to many particularities that are at least amusing: I call them no more, nor would I advise any man, who is not fond of curious trifles to take the pains of turning over these leaves.' Walpole brought his work down to the end of George II's reign in 1760. He included âother arts,' âStatuaries, Carvers, Architects, and Medallists,' and closed with an âEssay on Modern Gardening.' "Over thirty of Vertue's notebooks have been printed verb. et lit. by the English Walpole Society from the originals, which are now mostly in the British Library. The originals show that Walpole's description of them, âindigested' and âunreadable,' is charitable-âchaotic' and âilliterate' would not be unjust. The Anecdotes show that Walpole was a superb editor who brought order and style out of Vertue's incoherence. besides making Vertue's notes readable, Walpole added much new material and closed the gaps in Vertue's account. âFrom the reign of Henry III Mr Vertue could discover no records relating to the arts for several reigns,' Walpole wrote. âI shall endeavour to fill this hiatus by producing an almost entire chronologic series of paintings from that time to Henry VII when Mr Vertue's notes recommence,' and he did so in twenty-one pages. "The first two volumes of the Anecdotes appeared in 1762, the third volume and Catalogue of Engravers in 1763; the fourth volume was printed in 1771, but was held up until 1780 because Walpole didn't want to offend Hogarth's widow by his strictures on the artist's âSigismonda.' All five volumes were reprinted in 1825 and 1849. I hope one day that the Lewis Walpole Library will publish another edition that will make clear the contributions of both Vertue and Walpole to their pioneer history of painting in England." -- "Rescuing Horace Walpole" by Wilmarth S. Lewis. Good (Boards are heavily worn/scuffed/smudged; covers are very loose; ribbon bookmarks are frayed and worn; spine strips are chipped and scuffed at both ends; inner hinges are cracked; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; bookplate of former owner ifc of volume 1; interior is clean, but toned and lightly foxed and smudged in places; marginalia is present in places; textblocks appear solid.).

Hard Cover. FIRST EDITIONS. 5 volume uniform set. Quarto in half-sheets, pp. xiii, [1], 168, [22] (including errata leaf); [2], 158, 12, 58; [2], 155, [3], 4, [8]; x, [2], 151, [9]; [4], 128, 14, 20, [8]. 104 engraved plates to "Anecdotes" and 9 to "Catalogue". Nineteenth century maroon morocco bound by Lewis, with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to spine and heavy floral decoration to compartments; double gilt fillet border to boards; gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. Spines sunned, and 3 boards partially sunned; a little minor scuffing to boards. Large armorial bookplate of Nathan of Churt to each front paste-down; no annotation or inscriptions. Some offsetting from plates, mainly to Vol III, otherwise contents clean and crisp. A Very Good set. The most ambitious of all the Strawberry Hill publications, at the press set up in 1757 by Horace Walpole at his celebrated gothic mansion. Walpole purchased the notebooks of antiquary George Vertue from his widow, and based this work on Vertue's collected notes on historic English artists and their subjects, the great and good from the earliest days of portrait painting including the Stuarts and the interregnum period, giving his own unique interpretation of Vertue's work. Walpole employed several noted artists to engrave the plates including Bannerman, Chambars and Grignion. The work is rare; Hazen states " HW says that 600 copies of the first volume were printed, and 600 of the second. Since no figures are given for the third or fourth volume and the 'Catalogue of Engravers' one must assume the size of the edition was planned to match the first two volumes". An important and influential text in the history of English arts. Hazen: Strawberry Hill, p. 55 -68.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. First edition, second state. 7 x 9 in. Contemporary red morocco with gilt titles and spine decorations. Marbled endpapers. First edition, second state, with numerous engraved plates. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; all hinges are solid with no tenderness. Covers have some wear to edges, vol. 4 has some more wear to the lower corners. Spine labels have some chips, loss to lower part of vol. 3, loss to all of vol. 4. Bindings tight and text very clean and bright. All have the engraved bookplate of Ernest Hamilton Sharp on the front pastedown. A very nice set. Art. RGR.

5 vols. Engraved frontispiece and 109 plates. 4to, full contemporary russia; sides with roll-tooled floral borders (those of Vol. IV not uniform), expertly rebacked with gilt spines; a.e.g. First edition. Rothschild 2487. A few corners a little rubbed or bumped; title and dedication a little loose in the first volume; one very small hole to one plate; a little browning or offsetting; a few manuscript annotations. Armorial bookplates on pastedowns; later engraved bookplates on front free endpapers. An attractive set.

5 vols., 8vo, pp. [4], xiv, [2], 288, [32]; [4], 286, [82]; [4], 291, [13]; [2], [v]-vi, [v]-xvi, [2], 316, [20]; [2], 304, [6]; full contemporary calf with an early rebacking, old spines with red and black morocco labels laid down; spines darkened, but generally very good. With the ownership stamp at the top of each title of Francis Hiorne, F.S.A., and with his manuscript note on T2v regarding a volume of John Thorpe's drawings, purchased at a bookseller's shop in Whitehall and give to Francis Greville, Earl of Warwick, a few years before he died. Volume 4 is second edition; volume 5 is Walpole's Catalogue of Engravers. Hazen 14, citing the first edition of 1762-71.