Memoirs of Painting, with a Chronological History of the Importation of Pictures

by the Great Masters into England since the French Revolution… by William Buchanan

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First edition

xvi, 364 pp.; 2 p.l., 397 pp. Two vols. 8vo 220 x 140 mm. , 19th-century polished calf joints a trifle rubbed , spines gilt, red & green morocco lettering-pieces on spines. London: R. Ackermann, 1824. First edition of an essential firsthand history of the mass British acquisitions of Old Masters in the first decades of the 19th century. “William Buchanan 1777-1864 , a Scottish lawyer turned art dealer, was to benefit most from the turmoil caused

• Binding: Leather

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