Catalogue of the Bridgewater and Ellesmere Collections of Pictures and Statuary at Bridgewater House, Cleveland Square, St. James’s, London

by Francis Charles Granville Egerton, Third Earl of Ellesmere

$5,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

xx, 76 pp. 8vo, orig. green cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt. Manchester: Chas. Sever, Lithographer , 1900. The rare catalogue describing a vast and storied collection. The collection had its beginnings with the peculiar story of Francis Egerton not the above , the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater 1736-1803 , also known as the “Canal Duke.” “The Duke of Bridgewater was one of the great and eccentric success stories of English history. Like that

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