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BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB, Exhibition Catalogues, continued: :

214 EXHIBITION CATALOGUES: a collection of 29, forming a series complete from 1879 to 1897 inclusive. 4to., unbound as published 1879-97 215 EXHIBITION of PORTRAIT MINIATURES. Atlas 4to., LARGE PAPER, lxviii pages of Introduction, giving a history of the Art; 160 pages of descriptive catalogue of the objects exhibited; and 36 plates representing upwards of 200 portraits; cloth, RARE

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216 EXHIBITION of BOOKBINDINGS; with introductory remarks by
C. Gordon Duff and Miss S. T. Prideaux. Atlas 4to., LARGE PAPER,
with 113 plates mostly executed in chromo-lithography; cloth 1891
The great number of faithful reproductions, executed by W. Griggs, will give this
catalogue a permanent value.
217 EXHIBITION of PICTURES by Masters of the NETHERLANDISH and allied
Schools of the XV and early XVI Centuries. Atlas 4to., LARGE PAPER,
with 29 plates; cloth
1892
218 EXHIBITION of PICTURES, Drawings, and Photographs of works of the
School of FERRARA-BOLOGNA, 1440-1540; also of Medals of Members of
the Houses of Este and Bentivoglio. Atlas 4to., LARGE PAPER, with 22
fine plates; cloth
1894

219 EXHIBITION of the ART of ANCIENT EGYPT. Atlas 4to., LARGE
PAPER, with 27 full-page photographs, mounted on boards; cloth 1895
The special and novel character of the illustrations is that they represent the
industrial and domestic Arts of Ancient Egypt; and thus reveal the customs and
civilization of the people, rather than the magnificence of the kings.

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220 EXHIBITION of a Collection of EUROPEAN ENAMELS, from the Earliest date to the End of the XVIIth Century, exhibited in 1897, imperial 4to. ILLUSTRATED EDITION, having 72 fine plates representing about 100 specimens, cloth Privately printed, 1897 7 7 0

The Catalogue and Introduction are by J. Starkie Gardner; the Frontispiece is a facsimile, in gold and colours, of a Triptych attributed to Nardon Penicand, circa 1490. 221 EXHIBITION of PICTURES by Masters of the MILANESE and allied Schools of Lombardy, exhibited in 1898, imperial 4to., with 27 fine plates; cloth

Catalogues of Art Exhibitions :

1899

1883

222 BLENHEIM. Catalogue of the collection of LIMOGES ENAMELS from
Blenheim Palace; comprising upwards of eighty specimens, 8vo. with
MS. prices and 79 photographs; cloth
223 BARTOLOzZi. Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Engravings and
Etchings by F. Bartolozzi, with Introduction by A. W. Tuer, square
8vo. half vellum

1883

224 FRANKS (A. W.) Catalogue of a collection of Oriental Porcelain and Pottery lent for exhibition in the Bethnal Green Museum, second edition, 8vo. 25 plates; cloth, scarce 1878 225 HAMILTON PALACE COLLECTION (Pictures, Miniatures, Porcelain, Decorative Objects, etc.). Illustrated Priced Catalogue, 4to. with fullpage and other engravings of the more remarkable lots; cloth 1882 226 HAILSTONE (Mrs.) Illustrated Catalogue of Ancient Framed Needlework Pictures, by S. H. Lilla Hailstone. 4to. cloth

Privately printed, 1897 The Seventy-three Illustrations in this Work, portrayed in Sixteen Plates, from Photographs, reproduced in Half-Tone, are full of beauty and instruction, shewing what the needle has done in days gone bye, and also what it can do at the present time, and cannot fail to be of interest to all connoisseurs and antiquarians.

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227 JOSEPH. Catalogue of the collection of Objects of Art and Decoration
of Mr. E. Joseph, of New Bond Street, 3 portions in 1 vol. royal
8vo. with 37 plates; bds.
228 [MASKELL (Alfred)] Catalogue of a collection of Paintings, Engravings,
Sculpture, Oriental and European Porcelain, Tapestry, etc. at Norman-
hurst Court, Battle, 8vo. cloth

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Catalogues of Art Exhibitions, continued :

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229 NOTICE sur le Musée de Tsarskoé-Sélo renfermant la Collection d'Armes de S. M. l'Empereur, 8vo. 35 woodcuts; neatly bound

St. Petersburg, 1860 230 CATALOGUE of the National Gallery of Scotland, 1886-Führer durch die Waffen-Sammlung, Wien, 1889-Catalogue of the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1887; and five other Catalogues, in 1 vol. cr. 8vo. cloth

1879-89

231 STOWE. The Stowe Catalogue, priced and annotated by H. R. Forster,
4to. with frontispiece and numerous illustrations; half bound 1848
Objects of Art and Vertu, Pictures, Statuary, Furniture, etc.; the sale realised
£75,562. 4s 6d.
232 SYKES. Catalogue of the collection of Prints of Sir Mark Masterman
Sykes. 3 parts in 1 vol. 4to. with prices and names in MS.; cloth

Sotheby's, 1824
The first part (1324 lots) consists of a remarkable series of British Portraits; the
rest of Dutch, English and Italian prints.
233 VERTUE. Catalogue and Description of King Charles the First's capital
Collection of Pictures, Statues, etc.; published from an original MS.
at Oxford, 1757-Catalogue of the curious Collection of Pictures of
George VILLIERS, Duke of Buckingham, including that of Rubens;
with the Life of the Duke, by Fairfax, 1758-in 1 vol. 4to. calf 1757-8
The advertisements prefixed were written by Horace Walpole.

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234 WALPOLE. EDES WALPOLIANE: or, a description of the collection of Pictures at Houghton-Hall, the seat of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, 4to. 3rd edition, with portraits, plans, and views, half bound 1767 235 CAUS (Isaac de) NOVVELLE INVENTION DE LEVER L'EAV PLVS HAVT que sa source auec quelques machines mouantes par le moyen de l'eau small folio, engraved title, 32 pp. of letterpress, and 26 full-page plates; fine copy in vellum cover Imprime a Londre Lan 1644 another copy, which has in addition a letterpress title; old calf 1644 One of the most important of all early works on the application of Hydraulic Science. Although there are two copies here, it is a very rare book. 237 CHALCOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY'S Reproductions of Rare Prints, to illustrate the development of Engraving in Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands. A COMPLETE SET of the publications from the first year of issue, 1886, to 1896, as further described below, comprising in all 329 plates in three vols. atlas 4to. and ten portfolios (subscription price, £24. 10s)

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CONTENTS: 1886, 11 plates; 1887, 14 plates; 1888, 13 plates; 1889, 13 plates; 1890, 18 plates; 1891, 36 plates; 1892, 15 plates; 1892, SPECIAL NUMBER. The Playing Cards of the Master E. S. of 1466, 45 plates on 13 sheets; 1893-4, the Woodcuts of the Master I. B. with the Bird, 11 plates, and the Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet, 89 plates; 1895, The Seven Planets, with 38 plates and illustrations in the text; 1896, Engravings and Woodcuts by Jacopo de' Barbari, with 26 plates. 238 CHALCOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. A series of the publications from 1886 to 1890 inclusive, comprising 69 plates in 6 portfolios (subscription price, £10.) Berlin, 1886-90

SOLD SEPARATELY:

239 THE MASTER OF THE AMSTERDAM CABINET, by Max Lehrs. Atlas 4to., with 89 plates containing facsimiles of 119 engravings; buckram 1893-4 240 WOODCUTS OF THE MASTER I. B. WITH THE BIRD, by F. Lippmann ; with 11 fine plates; portfolio 1894 241 CHANTREY. Memorials of Sir Francis Chantrey, R.A., Sculptor, in Hallamshire and elsewhere, by John Holland, post 8vo., calf gilt (1851) 242 China. BERESFORD (Lord Charles) The Break-Up of China, with an account of its present commerce, currency, waterways, armies, railways, politics and future prospects, 8vo. maps, cloth

1899

An account of Lord Charles Beresford's recent visit to China at the request of the
Associated Chambers of Commerce. Under the heading of each place visited, Lord
Charles gives a clear report of its present commercial value and future capability in
competent hands.

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243 LIBER VERITATIS; or a Collection of Prints after the designs of CLAUDE LE LORRAIN; in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire, 3 vols. 3 portraits, and 300 mezzotinto engravings by Earlom, scored russia, gold borders on the sides, gilt edges

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3 vols. folio, portraits and 300 plates, well bound in

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another copy,
hogskin
The early Boydell issue, much preferred to that made by H. G. Bohn.
215 COLLIER (J. Payne) Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest
Books in the English Language, which, during the last fifty years,
have come under the notice of J. Payne Collier, 2 vols. 8vo. half
bound
1865

Cologne press:
246 AUGUSTINUS (S.). Page 1: Incipiut Omelie beati Augustini z pmo
de eo qd. psalmista ait. Quis est homo qui vult vitam et cupit
videre dies bonos | Sm. 4to. 24 leaves, lit. goth. long lines, 27 to the
full-page, small wormhole, fine large copy with the three blank leaves, calf
gilt
(Cologne, Ulrich Zell, about 1467)

A rare and very early example of the first Cologne press, to which Holtrop assigns
the date of 1467.-The first, twenty-third, and twenty-fourth leaves are blank. The
mark which indicates that a word is broken at the end of a line is a little oblique stroke
outside the limit of the regular press-work. This custom was not used by Zell after
1467. On the other hand, in the character for ho, the curve of the h comes below the
line, and this form was not used before 1466. Consequently the date may be set
precisely in 1467.
247 AUGUSTINUS (S.). Page 1: Incipit soliloquium beati Augustini
episcopi [V] Erbum m est. . Small 4to. 8 leaves, lit. goth. long lines,
27 to the full-page, fine large copy, half bound

(Cologne, by the printer of Dictys, about 1471)
RARE. The tract of St. Augustine ends on leaf 7. Leaf & is filled up with
a tract of 2 pp. by St. Thomas Aquinas: Tractatus fratris thome au liceat vti
Judiciis astrorum.

248 PROPOSITIONES RESPONSIVE. Page 1: [V] Niuersis presens
documētu inspectu | ris Decanus et facultas. Pa. 12. Expliciut
ppōnes responsiue ad questione | de obseruantia dominicaliū dierum z
preci puorum sollemniù festorů: et cetera:
Small 4to. 6 leaves, 27 lines to the page; sd.

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A rare piece of early Cologne printing generally ascribed to the press of Arnold Ther Hoernen, but in reality the work of the anonymous printer best known as the printer of Dictys. 249 COLVIN (Sidney) A Selection from Occasional Writings on Fine Art, sm. 4to. 160 pp. sewed; SCARCE Privately printed, 1873 CONTENTS: The Mausoleum of Halikarnassos; Old Masters at the Royal Academy, 1870; From Rigaud to Reynolds; etc. etc. 250 Costume. GIRONI, Toletta delle Dame Greche e Private Costumanze dei Greci si Antichi che Moderni, folio, 19 coloured plates, purple morocco extra, uncut Milano, 1825 251 DIE HEIMLICH OFFEBARUNG JOHANNIS. Albert Dürer's Apocalypse of St. John, a Series of 15 superb woodcuts, with co-temporary German text, in a portfolio, a bargain Munich, s.a.

Only 80 copies printed.

Very few copies remain of this wonderfully cheap work of Art. The first edition of Dürer's Apocalypse appeared without a date, the second was dated 1498, the third in 1511. A Strassburg edition by Martin Graeff was issued 1502, here newly produced.

52 DANCE of DEATH: Die Baseler Todtentänze in getreuen Abbildungen. Nebst geschichtlicher Untersuchung, so wie Vergleichung mit den übrigen deutschen Todtentänzen, ihrer Bilderfolge und ihren gemeinsamen Reimterten. Sammt einem Anhange: Todtentanz in Holzschnitten des 15ten Jahrh. von H. F. MASSMANN, 12mo. text. and 4to. atlas of plates, cloth Stuttgart, 1847

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253 The Dilettanti Society, 1736-1898: History of the Society of Dilettanti, compiled by L. Cust, and edited by Sidney Colvin, stout royal 8vo. with 14 photogravures of portraits, and 3 phototypes, cloth

1898

Three hundred and fifty copies printed. An excellent Society having produced
many valuable works, such as no publisher could have afforded to publish.

254 Egypt. MISSION AMÉLINEAU. Les Nouvelles Fouilles d'Abydos
1895-1896.. description des Monuments et objets découverts par
E. Amelineau, 4to. map, plans, inscriptions, illustrations from the
monuments, and 43 plates; sd.
Paris, 1899
A great deal of interest has been excited by the result of these diggings, and large
discussions have taken place upon the subject. Here for the first time the public is put
in possession of the investigator's full account, with all his theories and conclusions, and
the illustrated pieces of evidence on which they are founded.
Embroidery. Shortly will be ready a new book on Embroidery. It will
be the combined work of Mr. Lewis F. Day, who is just completing
a course of lectures on the subject at the Royal Institution, and of
Miss Mary Buckle, an accomplished embroideress, and teacher of the
Art. Its scope is practical, and it is addressed to all interested in
embroidery and embroidery design. It will be fully illustrated by
reproductions of needlework on a scale large enough to show the
stitch, and the artistic and technical sides of the art will be treated
with equal thoroughness.

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255 ESTAMPES (Les) EN COULEURS du XVIIIe Siècle (1774-1799)
Texte par ERNEST CHESNEAU. 25 parts, atlas folio, 50 beautiful
reproductions of the most celebrated French coloured printed engravings
MARVELLOUSLY PRINTED IN COLOURS, with a duplicate set of the plates in
black, published at 2500 francs
1885-88 50 00

The engravings reproduced are after Debucourt, Laureince, Fragonard, Janinet,
Huet Taunay, Descourtis, Regnault, Saint Aubin, etc.

The work is sumptuously printed on Japanese vellum, with a large number of
vignettes, initial letters and culs-de-lampe printed in colours, with a duplicate of each
printed in black.

Only 100 copies were printed for subscribers, all of the same state. 256 EAUX-FORTES de Rabelais par Bracquemond, 8vo. portrait and 16 etchings, half polished morocco, gilt tops, uncut

All with Alfred Cock's bookplate.

ib. 1872

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257 FERGUSSON (J.) Illustrations of the Rock-Cut Temples of India, 1 vol. 8vo. and roy. folio atlas of 19 plates, hf. bd. 1845 258 FINIGUERRA'S FLORENTINE PICTURE CHRONICLE, 1 vol. folio, giving reproductions of the 99 superb Drawings of full-length Costume figures, with an illustrated descriptive text by SIDNEY COLVIN, Keeper of the Prints in the British Museum. Cloth, £10. 10s; or, elegantly bound in pigskin

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"The Keeper of the Prints at the British Museum, Mr. Sidney Colvin, has collected a variety of evidence to prove that the artist in question was the famous Florentine goldsmith, Maso Finiguera, and his reasons for this ascription are set out in the critical and descriptive text which he has provided for the album of full-sized facsimile reproductions of Finiguera's work, which Mr. Bernard Quaritch will shortly publish. The collotype plates have been produced under the superintendence of Dr. Lippmann, at the Imperial Press of Berlin, while, in addition to the above reproductions, there will be about as many subsidiary illustrations in the text, executed by Messrs. W. H. Ward and Co. These smaller pictures are taken partly from contemporary works of sculpture, painting, and architectural decoration, selected in order to illustrate the special artistic influences which surrounded and inspired the Master of the Chronicle Series, partly from certain drawings and engravings which can be proved or surmised to be by his own hand."-The Morning Post.

"The whole of the drawings themselves are admirably reproduced in photographic facsimile, the work having been done by the Imperial Press in Berlin, under the superintendence of Dr. Lippmann. The book is to be welcomed as a serious and important contribution to the history of art. Primarily indeed it is merely an attempt to fix the authorship of certain drawings, but incidentally it calls back to life an artist who had almost faded into myth, while it throws new light upon many sides of the artistic activity of Florence at the most interesting moment of her history."-The Times, October 13th, 1898.

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The thanks of all students of Florentine art are due to Mr. Colvin for having

once and for all defined, not only the real nature of these drawings and engravings, but
also the character of Finiguerra as an artist, about whom has grown up so vast a mass
of obsolete and erroneous literature. Not less admirable are the facsimiles of the
Chronicle, than which nothing could be better done. Now charming, now naive,
decorative or amusing, these drawings illustrate, in a hundred different ways, the
popular mind and the historical notions of the Mercato' of Florence during the
middle of the fifteenth century. To the student of manners they present an inexhaust-
ible storehouse of forgotten lore. As works of art they are facile and floridly
inventive."-Saturday Review, December 17th, 1898.

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259 Florence Gallery. GALERIE DE FLORENCE et du Palais Pitti, 4 vols. impl. folio, LARGE PAPER, 200 fine plates, PROOFS BEFORE LETTERS, half bound, uncut

1789-1804 25 0 0

With the rare concluding Livraisons 49, 50. The above is the best state of this fine
Gallery. Copies printed on India Paper are modern impressions.

260 FOSTER'S British Miniature Painters and their Works. By J. J. FOSTER.
Illustrated by over 120 choice examples from the Royal Library, Windsor,
and from the Collections of Her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire, the
Baroness Burdett-Coutts, the Dukes of Richmond and Gordon, Rutland,
and Beaufort, the Earl Spencer, etc., of which 46 are reproduced in Photo-
gravure, the remainder in Half-tone.

425 copies only of the work printed for sale, each of which are numbered—viz., 300 copies on superfine paper at £3. 3s each, and 125 large paper copies

1899

'British

Mr. J. J. Foster has been engaged for some years upon a work on
Miniature Painters.' His book will contain nearly fifty photogravure and over seventy
other representative illustrations from the Royal Library, Windsor, the collection of the
It will also include several
Duchess of Devonshire, and other well known sources.
valuable appendices, containing some thousands of named examples."-The Athenæum,
October 2nd, 1897.

Furniture:

261 CHANCELLOR (A. E.) Examples of Old Furniture, 4to.

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262 MEASURED DRAWINGS OF FRENCH FURNITURE (from the Collection in South Kensington Museum), by W. G. PAULSON TOWNSEND, in 12 parts, impl. 4to. each

PART 1-Escritoire à Toilette and Oak Cabinet.

PART 2-Cabinet or Secretaire, Small Table, and Carved Door.

Gardening Books:

263 AN OLD ENGLISH GARDEN. By the COUNTESS of WARWICK. A delightful description of an Essex Garden, illustrated by numerous picturesque photogravure Illustrations of Lady Warwick's Garden near Easton, Essex, folio, cloth

1898

The entire edition of 350 copies is out of print. With 67 264 THE HONORABLE ALICIA AMHERST'S HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND, in one volume royal 8vo. xiv and 404 pp. A New Edition. 1896 Illustrations of old English Gardens and a revised text, extra cloth

The First Edition was sold within two months of its publication, and many were
the disappointments of unsuccessful would-be buyers.

"A remarkable ceremony was performed at the meeting of the 'Worshipful Company
of Gardeners,' on Thursday last, in the Grafton Gallery, in the bestowal of the freedom
of the guild upon a young lady. The statement might seem curious were it not that
the young lady was Miss Alicia Amhurst, daughter of Lord Amherst, of Hackney,
whose new book on the History of Gardening in England has won for her celebrity
Even as to the records of the Company itself,
as the chief authority on the subject.
Miss Amherst probably knew a great deal more than any of the officers who called the
At least, they will admit that much of their early history (in
meeting in her honour.
the time of James I) was made clearer to them by her book, which has indeed achieved
a success so sudden and so great (considering the nature of its subject) as to assume it
a permanent place in English literature."--The World.

265 PRAGTIGE en gemeine LANDHUIZEN, Lusthoven, Plantagien en Cieraeden,
4to. many folding plates of Garden Architecture, calf
1869
266 ROBINSON (W.) The Parks, Promenades and Gardens of Paris, 8vo.
upwards of 400 illustrations, uncut

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