British galleries of painting and sculpture, comprising a general historical and critical catalogue, with separate notices of every work of fine art in the principal collections...
London.
Published by Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1824.
First edition.
8vo.
viii, 240pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further four engraved plates. Uncut in later navy crushed morocco-backed marbled paper boards. A trifle rubbed, spine stained and sunned. Scattered spotting.
The first edition of journalist Charles Molloy Westmacott's (1787/8-1868) critical and descriptive catalogue of the principal artworks held in the Royal Collection, British Museum, Somerset House, Cleveland House, and the collections of Thomas Hope and John Julius Angerstein; the latter lately purchased for the nation.
£ 200.00
Antiquates Ref: 22613
