Fine Art, Portraiture – Anon (under the superintendence of t...

Hammer

£45

Fine Art, Portraiture – Anon (under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge) The Gallery off Portraits with Memoirs, London, Charles Knight 1833-35, Vols. IV, V & VII (of VII) large 8vo,marbled endpapers, and edges, bound calf, gilt lines and spine titles, all rather rubbed and with some splitting; Brougham [and Vaux] (Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Lord, PC, FRS, 1778-1868) et. al. Old England’s Worthies: A Gallery of Portraits with full and Original Biographies, London, James Sangster n. d. (c. 1847) two volume only, large 4to, 272pp, 79 plates and biographies, woodcuts and steel engraved plates, gilt edges, bound bevelled maroon and gilt embossed boards, gilt spine titles, lacking endpapers and half-titles, Vol. I: 272pp with 79 plates with biographies, Vol. II: 272pp, 5 engraved plates and others fr. board separating, some splitting (5)