PRESENTATION COPY
Observations on the arts, with tables of the principal painters of the various italian, spanish, french, flemish, dutch, and german schools, their scholars and imitators, with lists of the most celebrated painters of those schools, arranged by the subjects in which they excelled..
Liverpool.
Printed by W. Wales and Co., [1828].
First edition.
12mo.
[2], x, 132, xxii pp. With the title page, preface, and index of the second edition bound in. Contemporary navy half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards, marbled edges. Rubbed, upper board sunned. Scattered spotting. Presentation copy, inked inscription to blank leaf bound after title page: 'To Henry Norris Winstanley / from his affc. Father'.
The first edition of Liverpudlian auctioneer, art dealer, and connoisseur Thomas Winstanley's (1768-1845) register of Renaissance artist; to which is prefaced advice on the valuation and acquisition of paintings, designed to serve as a warning to credulous young collectors.
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref: 32521
