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CRANSTOUN OF COREHOUSE'S COPY

NORTHCOTE, James. The life of titian: with anecdotes of the distinguished person of his time.

London. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. First edition.
8vo. In two volumes. [2], 399, [1]; [4], 384pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I. and a folding genealogical chart. Original publisher's blind-stamped burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines sunned. Booksellers ticket of Charles Smith of Edinburgh to FEP of Vol. I, upper board of Vol. II held by single cord only. From the recently dispersed family estate (by descent) of George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse (1770-1850), Scottish jurist, satirist, and friend of Walter Scott and Lord Monboddo, with his armorial bookplates to both FEPs.
The sole edition of artist James Northcote's (1746-1831) authoritative biography of Venetian Renaissance painter Titian (1488/90-1576).
£ 250.00 Antiquates Ref: 32530