Catalogue of Italian Pictures at 16, South Street, Park Lane, London and Buckhurst in Sussex, collected

by Robert and Evelyn Benson by Robert Benson

$650 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

xxvi, 229 pp. Large 4to, orig. grey cloth corners bruised , gilt title on spine, t.e.g. London: Chiswick Press, 1914. Presentation copy of this catalogue of a collection described as having “a comprehensiveness that would have done credit to a professional curator.” Benson 1850-1929 , with his wife Evelyn, daughter of Robert Holford, “formed an important specialist collection. The senior partner of his eponymous bank, Benson was a member of the

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