Catalogue Of The Pictures At Leigh Court Near Bristol With Etchings From The Whole Collection And

by Philip John Miles

$650 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

81 etchings on 33 plates. 4 p.l., 32, 2 pp. Large 4to, orig. half-red morocco & marbled boards, spine expertly rebacked, new endpapers , spine gilt. London: W. Bulmer & W. Nicol, 1822. An uncommon catalogue. Miles 1774-1845 , “typifies the new class of merchant, having made his money financing the building of railways and of the Avonmouth docks. Miles bought Leigh Court, near Bristol, for which he assembled an extraordinary collection of works

• Binding: Leather

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