The Picture Collector's Manual, Adapted to the Professional Man, and the Amateur; Being a Dictionary of Painters, Containing fifteen hundred more names than in any other work

by James R. Hobbes

$125 · Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

First edition

London: T. & W. Boone, 1849. 2 volumes, 8vo 22 x 14 cm . xxii, 508; 640 pages. Publisher's plum embossed cloth, unopened. Spines faded, but a handsome set, with some light foxing to the preliminaries in both volumes. Item #406094 FIRST EDITION of this exhaustive survey of painters, with brief biographical entries. It includes an alphabetical arrangement of the scholars, imitators, and copyists of the various masters;

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