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Click here to subscribePAUL PHILIPPE (1870-1930) ART DECO BRONZE & IVORY FIGURE - VIOLIN PLAYER a circa 1925 cold painted bronze and ivory figure of a seated female violin player, holding a violin and bow in her hands. Mounted on a stepped onyx base. Figure signed, Philippe and with a Foundry mark (probably for Rosenthal and Maeder). 11 3/4ins (30cms) high overall, base 10ins (25cms) at widest point.
Thomas Edwin La Dell A.R.A. (British,1914-1970), "King's Backs", signed, titled and numbered 21/50 in pencil in the margin, colour lithograph, 41 x 64.5cm, 16.25 x 25.25in. * Edwin La Dell was born in Rotherham. He studied at Sheffield School of Art and at the Royal College of Art, London, where John Nash was teaching. During World War II he was appointed an official war artist to work on public murals and camouflage. Artists’ Resale Right (“droit de suite”) may apply to this lot.Condition report: The print is in good, original condition with strong colours. The paper has browned universally and there is the odd minor surface scratch and spot of foxing across the print. The print is framed and glazed.
Dame Barbara Hepworth R.A. (1903-1975), "Olympus", 1971, from the Aegean Suite, signed and numbered 45/60 in pencil in the margin, from an edition of 90, (there were also 30 artist's proofs), published by Marlborough Fine Art, London, printed by Curwen Studio, with their blindstamp, the full sheet, on wove paper, lithograph in colours, paper size 80.5 x 57cm, 31.75 x 22.5in. * This print is in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London. Artists' Resale Right (droit de suite) may apply to this lot.Condition report: The print is in very good, original condition. There is some pale time staining running around the sheet edges. The print is framed and glazed.
After Laurence Stephen Lowry R.A. (1887-1976), "Man Holding Child", signed in pencil in the margin, with Fine Art Trade Guild blindstamp, from an edition of 350, published by The Adam Collection Ltd, printed by Chorley and Pickersgill, colour reproduction print, image size 45.5 x 71cm.; 18 x 28in. Artists’ Resale Right (“droit de suite”) may apply to this lot.Condition report: The print is in good, original condition with strong colours. The paper has yellowed very slightly around the edge of the sheet where the paper runs underneath the mountboard. The print is framed and glazed.
Circa 1900 diamond garland brooch , the Art Nouveau style open work design with central round old cut diamond weighing approximately 0.66 carat (assessed clarity VS, assessed colour I/J), surrounding round old cut diamonds weighing approximately 1.40 carats (note: a total diamond weight of approximately 2.00 carats), white rubover and grain settings, assessed a 18ct white gold construction, hinge pin and trigger loop fastener to reverse, pendant measuring 3.5cm x 3.5cm.Condition report: No obvious damage or repairs, all diamonds and setting intact, pin working.
Art Deco opal, white and blue sapphire set clip , scrollwork open design comprising central oval cabochon cut opal measuring approx. 16mm x 11mm, the fancy scrollwork and fan design surround grain, rubover and channel settings with white and blue sapphires, silver settings, yellow gold spring clip reverse, with engraved scroll and dot pattern, measuring approx. 5.5cm x 3cmCondition report: Good, no obvious damage or repair, all stones and settings in tact.
Andrews (H.C.) A Catalogue (Raisonné) of the Original and select Pictures, now exposed to the Public, at the London Gallery, 22 Piccadilly...the sole Property of H.C.Andrews...now offered to the Public for sale..., only edition, 16 engraved plates, some foxing, contemporary half calf, rubbed, 8vo, printed by B.R.Howlett, 1813.⁂ Scarce catalogue of Old Master paintings. The title describes the collection, "tending to illustrate, by examples, the rise, progress, decadence, and subsequent revival of the Art...collected..in the course of the last 18 years; many when last on the Continent...The only authentic specimen of the Works of Leonardo da Vinci, is in this Collection". The latter depicts Francis I of France as John the Baptist, the price quoted is £10,000.COPAC records only one printed copy (British Library); WorldCat lists that and 3 others (Rubenianum, Antwerp; Bib. Nat., Paris; Metropolitan Museum, NY).
Tatlock (R.R.) & others. A Record of the Collections in the Lady Lever Art Gallery Port Sunlight, Cheshire..., 3 vol., one of 350 sets, plates, ex-library copy with labels to endpapers but no apparent stamps, original blue buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, dust-jackets, a little rubbed and frayed at edges, 1928; and 3 others on the Leverhume collections, including 2 sale catalogues of furniture (both the cancelled Knight Frank & Rutley sale and its transfer to the Anderson Galleries in New York), 4to (6)⁂ Comprising: Tatlock. English Painting of the XVIIIth to XXth Centuries; Hobson. Chinese Porcelain & Wedgewood Pottery; Macquoid. English Furniture, Tapestry and Needlework of the XVIth to XIXth Centuries.
Taylor (George Watson) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Choice, Curious, and Splendid London Library...removed from his Mansion in Cavendish Square, 2 parts in 1 vol., advertisement leaf at end, prices and some buyers' names supplied in manuscript, contemporary ink signature of Francis ?Tuckett on front free endpaper and with 20pp. manuscript notes bound in at end (mostly relating to Dibdin), title spotted, Part 1 lacking pp. 43-46, original boards, uncut, rubbed, Evans, 1823; [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Magnificent Assemblage of Property at Erlestoke Mansion near Devizes, in Wilts., lithographed frontispiece of Erlestoke Park (foxed at edges and with light offsetting from title), some prices in manuscript, contemporary half calf, a little worn, upper cover becoming loose, label chipped, [Lugt 13046], George Robins, 1832, 8vo & 4to (2)⁂ George Watson Taylor (1771-1841) was an English sugar plantation owner and politician who used his wife's fortune to assemble a significant library and art collection. His library included incunabula on vellum, Caxtons, and Dibdin's works on large paper made nearly £9000. By 1832 he was in financial difficulties and was forced to sell his collection at Erlestone Park, raising £30,000. He is depicted kneeling in the painting by P.A.Wonder of Patrons and Lovers of Art of 1826, for General Murray, along with Murray, Rev. William Holwell Carr and the artist, which was used on the dust-jacket of the first edition of The English as Collectors.
Vertue (George) A Catalogue and Description of King Charles the First's Capital Collection of Pictures, Limnings, Statues, Bronzes, Medals, and other Curiosities, 1757; A Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures, &c. belonging to James the Second; to which is added, A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings in the Closet of the late Queen Caroline..., 4 double-page engraved plans of the picture hangings, 1758, together 2 works in 1 vol., first editions, the second with annotations in pencil and ink, mostly to the second part (references to Parker's Drawings of Holbein at Windsor Castle and R.A. exhibition of Holbein 1950), some browning, modern morocco-backed cloth, 4to, for W.Bathoe; and 5 others relating to the collection of Charles I, 4to (6)⁂ The magnificent art collection of Charles I was probably the finest collection ever assembled in England, but following his execution the paintings and other treasures were dispersed by Cromwell.The first work was compiled by Abraham Vanderdoort, translated into English by Vertue (from a manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum), and edited by Horace Walpole; the first part of the second work is signed "Will.Chiffinch" and the second part was compiled by Vertue.
NO RESERVE Benson (Robert, editor) The Holford Collection; Dorchester House, 2 vol., number xlviii of 400 copies signed by the editor, plates printed by Emery Walker, original half vellum, red roan labels, t.e.g., others uncut, rubbed and stained, Oxford, 1927 § Holford (Sir George Lindsay) [Sale Catalogues] Catalogue of Important Pictures..., 2 vol., plates, original boards, spines browned, Christie's, 1927-28 § Benson (Robert & Evelyn) Catalogue of Italian Pictures..., original wrappers, uncut, spine torn at head, privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1914, all a little rubbed or soiled, 4to & 8vo (5)⁂ Robert Holford (1808-92) was an art collector and landscape gardening enthusiast who created Westonbirt Arboretum in Gloucestershire. His fine art collection, bought principally through William Buchanan, was split between Westonbirt and Dorchester House, London. It was inherited by his son Sir George Lindsay Holford (1860-1926) and dispersed at auction following his death in two sales: one of Italian paintings, the other of remaining old Masters, particularly Dutch and including 4 Rembrandt portraits. His daughter, Evelyn, married the banker and collector Robert Benson who edited the first item.
[Waldie (John)] A Catalogue of Pictures, Statues...Books...at Hendersyde Park, second edition, tinted lithographed frontispiece (foxed), contemporary half calf, privately printed, Kelso, 1825 § Britton (John) An Historical Account of Corsham House..., engraved frontispiece, foxing, C2 & 3 defective at upper outer corner with loss of some text, contemporary roan-backed boards, for the Author, 1819 § Mason (W.H.) Goodwood: its House, Park and Grounds with a Catalogue Raisonné of the Pictures, engraved plates, original cloth, rebacked, 1839 § Scharf (George) Catalogue Raisonné; or, a List of the Pictures in Blenheim Palace, presentation copy from the author to the Countess of Darnley and from her to Lady Pelham, frontispiece (loose), plate of artists' signatures at end, contemporary half morocco, 1862 § Robinson (J.C.) Catalogue of the Various Works of Art forming the Collection of Matthew Uzielli, plates, foxing, original cloth, 1860 § Liverpool (Earl of) Catalogue of the Portraits, &c. at Holker Hall, Lancashire, plates, original cloth faded, Manchester, 1906, rubbed, 4to & 8vo (6)
Ward (T.Humphry) & others. Pictures in the Collection of J.Pierpont Morgan at Prince's Gate & Dover House, London, original half morocco, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, t.e.g., spine rubbed and faded, privately printed, 1907 § Gruelle (R.B.) Notes: Critical & Biographical. Collection of W.T.Walters, limited edition, printed in red & black, title, head-pieces & initials designed by Bruce Rogers, tear to one leaf, original wrappers, Indianapolis, 1895 § Valentiner (W.R.) Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall, original limp cloth, Elkins Park, Pa., privately printed, 1931 § Bache (Jules S.) A Catalogue of Paintings in the Collection..., original cloth, New York, privately printed, 1929 § Smith (James Henry) [Sale Catalogue] The Palatial Mansion..., number 261 of 275 deluxe copies, original boards, New York, American Art Association, 1910, plates, most uncut, rubbed; and 5 sale catalogues of American collections, 8vo & 4to (10)
NO RESERVE Waterfield (Giles) The People's Galleries: Art Museums and Exhibitions in Britain, 1800-1914, New Haven & London, 2015 § Chapel (J.) & Charlotte Gere. The Fine and Decorative Art Collections of Britain and Ireland, 1985 § Impey (O.) & Arthur Macgregor. The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities..., Oxford, 1985 § Laclotte (M.) & J.-P.Cuzin. The Louvre, 1982 § Lerman (Leo) The Museum: One Hundred Years and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, signed and inscribed by the author in 1974 to Frank Herrmann "who has given me such audible pleasure and will give me infinite joy when I hold in my still unaged (?) hands his Sotheby..." on front free endpaper, New York, 1969, plates and illustrations, some colour, original cloth with dust-jackets; and c.20 others on museums and galleries, 4to (c.25)
Wellington (Evelyn) A Descriptive & Historical Catalogue of the Pictures and Sculpture at Apsley House, London , 2 vol., number 126 of of 400 copies, presentation copy from the author to F.P. Seguier, mounted photogravure plates on india paper, tissue guards, occasional spotting, bookplate of Edward J.Sowerby, original half vellum, gilt, g.e., slightly soiled, 4to, 1901.⁂ At the beginning of the work is included a "Catalogue of the principal pictures found in the baggage of Joseph Bonaparte, made by Mr. Seguier on their arrival in London". These were looted from the Spanish royal collection by Joseph Bonaparte and subsequently captured by the Duke of Wellington. Once he realised their value Wellington offered to return them but this was refused. William Seguier (1772-1843) was an art dealer and artist who became the first Keeper of the National Gallery when it was established in 1824, F.P.Seguier, the recipient of this work, was presumably a descendant.
Bernal (Ralph) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Works of Art, from the Byzantine Period to that of Louis Seize, plates, one leaf loose and slightly frayed at edges, original cloth, small ink stain to upper cover, spine worn and faded, 1855 § Bohn (Henry C.) A Guide to the Knowledge of Pottery, Porcelain, and other Objects of Vertu, comprising an Illustrated Catalogue of the Bernal Collection, second edition, plates, one plate & leaf loose, original blind-stamped cloth, spine faded, 1862 § Goode (W.J.) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of...Old Sèvres Porcelain, prices and buyer's names in manuscript, 1895 § King (H.J.) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of...Dresden Porcelain, 1914, the last two with photographic plates, original boards, rubbed and soiled, all but the second Christie & Manson; and 6 old Sotheby catalogues of European ceramics, 8vo & 4to (10)⁂ "To Ralph Bernal, a highly intelligent man trained as a barrister and a Member of Parliament for thirty years, more than to any other single individual in the history of English collecting, we owe the shift of interest among collectors from the work of the artist to the product of the craftsman. Bernal's collection, almost in its entirety, was the stuff museums are made of." It was "probably the greatest collection of ceramics and objets d'art of its time". The English as Collectors pp. 293 & 433. The sale consisted of 4294 lots over 32 days and realised £62,690 18s.
Collecting.- Smith (John) A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, 9 vol. including supplement, half-titles in vol.1-8, lithographed or engraved portraits, most a little foxed, some offset onto titles, John Sheepshanks's copy with his engraved bookplate, handsome contemporary tree calf with gilt Greek key border, by Rivière, spines gilt in compartments with red and brown roan labels, a little rubbed, mostly to joints and edges, upper joint of vol.9 split, 8vo, 1829-42.⁂ Good association copy of an important reference work including biographies, descriptions of the pictures, prices achieved at auction, locations in galleries and private collections, and engravers of paintings.John Sheepshanks (1787-1863) was a cloth manufacturer from Leeds who assembled a notable collection of art by living British artists and presented it to the nation in 1857, for the education of artists and the public. It was displayed in specially-built galleries in the South Kensington Museum, now the Victoria and Albert Museum.
NO RESERVE Young (La Monte, editor) An Anthology..., second edition, 1970 § Hamilton (Richard) & Ecke Bonk, editors. Marcel Duchamp: À L'Infinitif, 1999; The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, 1976; Notes et/and Notations, 2002, number 286 of 300 copies signed by the editors, Karlsruhe-Northend, The Typosophic Society § Fitzsimmons (James) Jean Dubuffet: Brève Introduction à Son Œuvre, limited edition, a few ff. loose, Clichy, Paul Dupont, 1958 § Cahiers D'Art, vol. 4-5, text block detached, Paris, 1937, illustrations (first several tipped-in or loosely inserted), second original cloth or boards with slip-case, others original wrappers, first spine faded; and 21 others, History of Art, 8vo & 4to (25)
NO RESERVE Blunt (Wilfrid) Cockerell: Sydney Carlyle Cockerell...Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1964 § Clark (Kenneth) Another Part of the Wood: A Self Portrait, 1974; The Other Half, 1977 § Strong (Roy) The Roy Strong Diaries 1967-1987, 1997 § Honeyman (T.J.) Art and Audacity, 1971 § Holmes (C.J.) Self & Partners..., 1936, illustrations, original cloth or boards, all but the last with dust-jackets, a little rubbed; and c.30 others on gallery & museum directors & connoisseurs, 8vo & 4to (c.35)
NO RESERVE Bode (Dr. Wilhelm) The Art Collection of Mr. Alfred Beit at his residence 26 Park Lane London, one of 50 copies in English on Japanese handmade paper (plus 50 copies in German) numbered "Proof Edition No.22", heliogravure plates and illustrations, captioned tissue guards, occasional spotting, original calf, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, with original cloth drop-back box (rubbed & damp-stained, one edge detached), folio, Berlin, 1904.⁂ Alfred Beit (1853-1906) was a British gold and diamond magnate in South Africa who donated large amounts of his fortune to developing infrastructure in Africa, and to university education and research. His brother, Otto, and his nephew, Sir Alfred Lane Beit, were also both significant art collectors and philanthropists.
NO RESERVE Bode (Dr. Wilhelm von) [Sale Catalogue] Nachlass Wilhelm von Bode, some prices in manuscript, original wrappers, a little spotted and soiled, Berlin, Paul Cassirer & Hugo Helbing, 1929; Die Meister der Holländischen und Vlämischen Malerschulen, second edition, illustrations, original vellum-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, Leipzig, 1919; and 9 others by Bode, 4to & 8vo (11)⁂ Dr Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929) was a German art historian and the creator and first curator of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin.
NO RESERVE Bolton (Arthur T.) The Portrait of Sir John Soane, R.A. (1753-1837), 1927 § Owen (F.) & D.B.Brown. Collector of Genius: A Life of Sir George Beaumont, New Haven & London, 1988 § Watkin (David) Thomas Hope 1769-1831 and the Neo-Classical Idea, 1968 § Lees-Milne (James) Earls of Creation: Five Great Patrons of Eighteenth-Century Art, 1962 § Wainwright (Clive) The Romantic Interior: The British Collector at Home 1750-1850, New Haven & London, 1989 § Marks (R.) Burrell: A Portrait of a Collector, Glasgow, 1983 § Jenkins (I.) & Kim Sloan. Vases & Volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton and his Collection, original wrappers, 1996, plates or illustrations, original cloth or boards, all but the first and last with dust-jackets, the first with faded spine; and c.25 others on collectors and patrons, 8vo & 4to (c.30)
Art Journal (The). Illustrated Catalogue of the International Exhibition 1862, wood-engraved decorative title and illustrations, contemporary half calf, 1862 § National Exhibition of Works of Art, at Leeds, 1868. Official Catalogue, bookplate of Rev.T.Milville Raven, contemporary half morocco, Leeds, 1869 § Gatty (Charles T.) Liverpool Free Public Museum. Catalogue of the Mediaeval & Later Antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum, including the Mather Collection of Miniatures and Medals relating to the Bonaparte Family, plates, original cloth, rubbed and faded, Liverpool, 1883 § Monkhouse (Cosmo) The Manchester Whitworth Institute. Historical Catalogue of the Collection of Water-colour Drawings by Deceased Artists, large paper copy printed on rectos only, plates, original cloth, gilt, Manchester, 1894, rubbed; and 2 others including a volume of the Illustrated London News of 1862 with reports of the International Exhibition, v.s. (6)
NO RESERVE British Museum.- Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum, fourteenth edition, modern cloth-backed boards, 1818 § Guide (A) to the Beauties of the British Musuem..., stitched, uncut, first and last leaves lightly soiled and frayed at edges, preserved in modern marbled drop-back box, 1826 § Statutes and Rules for the British Musuem, cloth, 1856 § Ellis (Sir Henry) The Townley Gallery of Classic Sculpture in the British Museum, 2 vol., illustrations, with loosely inserted, original green cloth, spine faded and a little worn at ends, [1846] § O'Donoghue (Frank M.) Catalogue of the Collection of Playing Cards bequeathed to...the British Museum by the late Lady Charlotte Schreiber, original cloth, spine ends a little worn, 1901 § Read (Charles Hercules) The Waddesdon Bequest: Catalogue of the Works of Art bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, M.P. 1898, 1902 § Charles Hercules Read: A Tribute...and a Record of Additions to the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography...1896-1921, plates, marginal staining to a few leaves, original morocco-backed cloth, 1921 § British Museum Quarterly (The), vol.1-14 in 55 only (lacking vol.XIII no.2) plus a few later issues, original wrappers, uncut, loose in original cloth-backed board annual folders, some damp-staining (particularly vol.I), 1927-40 § Miller (E.) That Noble Cabinet: A History of the British Museum, 1973 § Caygill (M.) & John Cherry. A.W.Franks: Nineteenth-Century Collecting and the British Museum, 1997, the last two original boards with dust-jackets, the rest rubbed; and a small quantity of others relating to the British Museum, 8vo & 4to (c.60)⁂ Loosely inserted in the fourth is a 4pp. A.L.s. from the author, the principal librarian, to Rt.Hon. Thomas Grenville, a major benefactor to the library, explaining why he had refused admittance to the Reading Room of a Mr. Lewis's son (due to his being under eighteen).
NO RESERVE Brockwell (Maurice W.) A Catalogue of Some of the Paintings of the British School in the Collection of Henry Edwards Huntington at San Marino, California, presentation copy to Mrs. Le Blonde from Caroline H.Halladay (sister of Henry Huntington) with 2 ALs.s., 4 large photographs of the house & library and a list of additional paintings not included in the catalogue loosely inserted, photogravure plates, tissue guards, original cream cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, slightly soiled, 4to, New York, privately printed, 1925.⁂ Henry E.Huntington (1850- 1927) was an American railroad magnate, collector of books and art, and a philanthropist. The Huntington Library and Art Collection are housed in his house at San Marino, and includes one of the greatest collections of 18th century British portraits assembled by one person. The library contains 7 million manuscripts, over 400,000 books (including one of only 11 known copies of the Gutenberg Bible on vellum and Newton's own, annotated, copy of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica) and a million other works on paper (prints, photographs, ephemera).The second letter describes the recent death of Henry Huntington in Philadelphia, where he had gone "to have what he and all of us believed to be a slight operation."
Carey (William) Desultory Exposition of an Anti-British System of Incendiary Publication, &c. intended to sacrifice the honor and interests of the British Institution...to the Passions, Quackeries and Falsehoods of certain disappointed candidates for prizes at the British Gallery and Admission...into the Royal Academy..., first edition, lacking half-title, light soiling, modern morocco-backed cloth, uncut, 8vo, for the author, 1819; Observations on the Probable Decline or Extinction of British Historical Painting, from the Church Exclusion of Paintings, first edition, 1825; Patronage of Irish Genius. Two Letters...proving the Wisdom, Honor, and Permanent Public Advantage of Erecting a National Gallery, second edition, Dublin, 1823, 2 works in 1 vol., presentation copy from the author inscribed at head of first title, spotting, original boards, uncut, rubbed, spine defective, 8vo (2) ⁂ William Carey (1759-39) was an artist, art critic, dealer, and encourager of British artists.
NO RESERVE Mahaffy (J. P.) The Principles of the Art of Conversation, A.L.s from author loosely inserted, occasional spotting, previous owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper, 3pp. pamphlet by Mahaffy and related newspaper clippings loosely inserted, original cloth, faded spine and edges, 1887 § Skeat (Rev. Walter W.) The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 6 vol., frontispiece, light spotting to endpapers, original cloth, a little rubbed, lightly browned spines, Oxford, 1894 § Beckett (Samuel) Dream of Fair to Middling Women, original cloth, dust-jacket, Dublin, 1992; and 9 others, including 3 additional copies of 'Dream of Fair to Middling Women', 8vo (17)
Marillier (H.C., editor) The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley, 1899 § The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley, 1901 § Hind (C.Lewis, editor) The Uncollected Work of Aubrey Beardsley, 1925, Haldane McFall's copies, second inscribed to him by his wife, first and second with his pictorial bookplate by Edward Gordon Craig, last with bookplate ?to his own design, half-titles, frontispieces and plates, some colour, captioned guards, a few pencil inscriptions, some soiling, first most ff. detached, others a few detached, original pictorial cloth, stamped in colours, edges uncut, soiled and marked, spines darkened, shelf-lean, 4to (3) ⁂Chambers Haldane Cooke McFall (1860-1928) artist, novelist, biographer, author of books and essays of art criticism: friend and associate of Beardsley, Edward Gordon Craig, and Claude Lovat Fraser.Inscription: "Haldane | With his Wife's love | July 24th 1909".
NO RESERVE Duveen (Joseph) The Rise of the House of Duveen, original boards, dust-jacket, 1957; Thirty Years of British Art, original cloth, 'The Studio', 1930 § Valentiner (Dr. W.R.) A Catalogue of Early Italian Paintings exhibited at the Duveen Galleries New York April to May, 1924: An Illustrated Record of Important Paintings by Old Masters Acquired by Sir Joseph Duveen and Disposed of by Him to Notable American Collectors, signed presentation copy from Duveen to Captain Cazalet and with Cazalet's bookplate, original cloth-backed boards, t.e.g., others uncut, New York, privately printed, 1926, slightly rubbed; and 7 others on Duveen, v.s. (10)⁂ Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen (1869-1939) was a British art dealer, regarded as one of the most influential dealers of all time. He was the son of Joseph Joel Duveen who, with his brother Henry, established a successful import business trading in antiques which was developed by his son into dealing in paintings. With the assistance of the expert Bernard Berenson Duveen played a large part in creating some of the major art collections in America, selling paintings from impoverished British aristocrats to American magnates such as Frick, Rockefeller, Pierpont Morgan, Huntington, Kress, Mellon and Hearst.
NO RESERVE Eastlake (Sir Charles Lock) Contributions to the Literature of the Fine Arts, with a Memoir by Lady Eastlake, 2 vol., second edition, original cloth, 1870 § Kugler (Dr. Franz) A Hand-Book of the History of Painting, edited by C.L.Eastlake, 1842; Handbook of Painting. The Italian Schools, based on the Handbook of Kugler, 2 vol., fourth edition revised by Lady Eastlake, 1874; The Italian Schools of Painting based on the Handbook of Kugler, 2 vol., sixth edition edited by Austen Henry Layard, 1900 § Green (George M.) Catalogue of the Eastlake Library in the National Gallery, presentation copy from the Director, modern half morocco, original wrappers bound in, Burlington Fine Arts Club copy with inscription to upper cover, 1872 § Robertson (David) Sir Charles Eastlake and the Victorian Art World, original cloth, dust-jacket, Princeton, NJ., 1978, the first four original cloth, slightly rubbed, the second with spine ends worn & frayed, 8vo & 4to (9)⁂ Sir Charles Eastlake (1793-1865) was an artist, art historian and collector who in 1855 became the first Director of the National Gallery. He married Elizabeth Rigby, herself an art historian, and together they were influential figures in the art world. His collection of paintings was bequeathed to and his library was sold to the National Gallery.
NO RESERVE Garlick (Kenneth, editor) A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Walpole Society vol. 39, original cloth-backed boards, 1964 § Bell (C.F., editor) Annals of Thomas Banks, Sculptor, Royal Academician, with some Letters from Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A., to Banks's Daughter, light spotting, Cambridge, 1938 § Girtin (Thomas) & David Loshak. The Art of Thomas Girtin, 1954 § Mayer (Joseph) Memoirs of Thomas Dodd, William Upcott, and George Stubbs, R.A., 3 mounted portraits, A.N.L.Munby's copy with his signature, old cancelled library stamp at foot of title, Liverpool, 1879 § Redgrave (R. & S.) A Century of Painters of the English School, second edition, [c.1890], plates and illustrations, all but the first original cloth or boards, the third with dust-jacket, slightly rubbed; and c.15 others on British artists, 4to & 8vo (c.20)
NO RESERVE Goldschmidt-Rothschild (Baron Albert von) [Sale Catalogue] Kunstwerke aus dem Besitz..., later half morocco, spine faded, Berlin, Hermann Ball & Paul Graupe, 1933 § Kunstwerke aus den Beständen Leningrader Museen und Schlösser Eremitage, Palais Michailoff, Gatschina U.A., 2 vol., original wrappers, uncut, rubbed and spotted, together in modern board slip-case, Berlin, Rudolph Lepke, 1928-29 § Koch (G.) Kunstwerke und Bücher am Markte: Auktion - Fälschungen - Preise..., original parchment-backed boards, Esslingen, 1915, plates, rubbed; and c.15 others, mostly German art auction catalogues, 4to (c.20)
Hamilton (Duke of) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures, Works of Art, and Decorative Objects..., First [-Fifth] Portion, 5 parts in 1 vol., carbon print photographic plates by James Annan (son of Thomas Annan), prices and buyers' names to first three portions supplied in manuscript, occasional spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, rebacked preserving original spine (faded), [Lugt 42168], Christie's, 1882; Hamilton Palace Collection (The). Illustrated Priced Catalogue, title in red & black with decorative border, illustrations, original pale green cloth, gilt, uncut, an excellent copy, Paris, Librairie d'Art & London, Remington & Co., 1882; [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Hamilton Library, large and fine paper copy with printed list of prices and buyers' names at end, title soiled, slight staining to lower margin, original printed wrappers, uncut, rubbed and soiled, spine worn, upper cover detached, Sotheby's, 1884, 8vo & 4to (2)⁂ The superb Hamilton Palace Collection included the art collection of William Beckford which was inherited by his son-in-law the 10th Duke of Hamilton along with Beckford's main library which was sold in 1884."2213 items. Pictures, ceramics, French furniture. One of the most magnificent sales ever to be held in England: it lasted fifteen [actually seventeen] days and totalled nearly £400,000". The English as Collectors p.433
NO RESERVE Haskell (Francis) Patrons and Painters: A Study in the Relations between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque, 1963 § Fawcett (Trevor) The Rise of English Provincial Art: Artists, Patrons, and Institutions outside London, 1800-1830, Oxford, 1974 § Eccles (Lord) On Collecting, 1968 § Evans (Joan) A History of the Society of Antiquaries, Oxford, 1956 § Conway (Sir Martin) The Sport of Collecting, 1914 § Coke (Desmond) Confessions of an Incurable Collector, 1928 § Rogers (H.Mordaunt) The Making of a Connoisseur, 1951, illustrations, original cloth or boards, the first three with dust-jackets, a little rubbed, some spines faded; and c.50 others on collecting and a run of The Journal of the History of Collecting vol.1-18 (lacking only vol.13 no.1) 1989-2006, 4to & 8vo (c.90)
Hillier (Jack) Japanese Prints & Drawings from the Vever Collection, 3 vol., 1976 § Vever (Henri) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings..., 3 vol., price lists loosely inserted, Sotheby's, 1974-77, plates and illustrations, some colour, some folding, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first also with slip-case; and 3 other catalogues of Japanese art, 4to & 8vo (9)
NO RESERVE Hodgkin (John Eliot) Rariora being Notes of some of the Printed Books, Manuscripts...collected (1858-1900), 3 vol., titles with decorative border, plates, original buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, slightly soiled, [1900]-02; [Sale Catalogues] The J.E.Hodgkin Collections. Catalogue of the Works of Art, 6 vol. in 1, plates, all but the last vol. neatly ruled in red and with prices and buyers' names in manuscript, contemporary red morocco, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed, upper joint cracked, Sotheby's, 1914, 4to (4)⁂ The third volume of the first contains a useful section on fireworks. The sale catalogues comprise: Works of Art, Commemorative Medals, Autograph Letters, Engravings, Trade Cards, Book-plates & Broadsides, and the Library.
Jameson (Mrs. Anna) A Handbook to the Public Galleries of Art in and near London, with Catalogues of the Pictures, 2 vol., first edition, contemporary half roan, spines chipped at head, 1842; Companion to the most celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London, signed presentation copy from the author to Lady Noel Byron inscribed on half-title, contemporary half roan, spine gilt, 1844; Memoirs of Early Italian Painters, 2 vol. in 1, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, label chipped, 1845; Sacred and Legendary Art, 2 vol., fourth edition, original cloth, spines faded, one torn, 1863; Memoirs of the Beauties of the Court of Charles the Second, fourth edition, contemporary red morocco, gilt, 1861, some plates, occasional spotting, rubbed; and 5 others by or about Mrs. Jameson, 8vo & 4to (12)⁂ "Mrs Jameson was unusually diligent in seeking out facts and wrote them up with verve and what amounted to remarkable critical honesty for her time. Private Galleries, in particular, is a key work in the history of collecting." The English as Collectors, p421. The latter includes the Royal collection, the Bridgewater, Sutherland and Grosvenor galleries, and the collections of the Marquess of Lansdowne, Sir Robert Peel, and Samuel Rogers.
NO RESERVE Kunstwerke aus dem Besitz der Staatlichen Museen Berlin, with bidding slip and note to foreign buyers printed on pink paper loosely inserted, original printed wrappers, slightly soiled but an excellent copy, Munich, Julius Böhler, 1937.⁂ A loosely-inserted note by Herrmann reads," This is a copy of the exceedingly rare, suppressed (in Germany), catalogue of a sale enforced by the Nazis apparently in order to raise hard currency. Many of the objects did indeed find their way to the US...F.H.". The loosely-inserted printed note announces that foreign buyers can claim a reduction of 33% of the hammer price." I recall that exuberant young publisher, who collected books on art. I used to bid for him often, sometimes successfully and sometimes not. One day he spotted a certain book on the shelves: it was one of the rare auction catalogues produced by the Nazis in the late 'thirties when they were getting rid of what they considered undesirable pictures from some of their national museums. He was very excited.'Go up to a hundred for me if you have to,' he said. 'It shouldn't make anything like that, but don't lose it just for the odd extra pound or two, either. I want it.'After the sale he rang me up. 'Did you get it?' he asked urgently.'Yes,' I told him.'How much?' He was pretty anxious.'Well,' I said, 'I opened the bidding at a pound, but nobody else bid against me. It's yours for a quid!'He was delighted...He is Frank Herrmann, author of the history of Sotheby's." Fred Snelling in Rare Books and Rarer People, 1982.
Beckford (William).- [Sale Catalogue] Valuable Library of Books in Fonthill Abbey (The). A Catalogue of the Magnificent, Rare, and Valuable Library (of 20,000 Volumes)..., [including] The Unique and Splendid Effects of Fonthill Abbey [&] The Pictures and Miniatures at Fonthill Abbey, engraved frontispiece (foxed at edges) modern half morocco, original paper label preserved on upper cover, spine faded, [Lugt 10510 & 10519], Phillips, 1823 § Hamilton Palace Collection (The). Illustrated Priced Catalogue, title in red & black with decorative border, illustrations, hinges weak, Paris & London, 1882, 8vo & 4to (2)⁂ The Beckford sale was one of the most famous of the nineteenth century. Beckford's financial resources had diminished and he was forced to sell Fonthill and much of his collection. The sale was entrusted to Christie's and catalogued but before it took place John Farquhar, a Scottish gunpowder-manufacturer, bought the whole estate together with its contents. He then put the contents up for sale at auction with Phillips the following year. Choice items from Beckford's library and art collection had already been removed to his new residence in Lansdowne Terrace, Bath, and were inherited by his son-in-law the 10th Duke of Hamilton, and later sold as part of the Hamilton sales in 1882 and 1884.The first item comprises the entire contents of Fonthill offered at auction over thirty-seven days from 23rd September to 29th October, comprising the library, furniture, pictures and prints, but with the catalogues bound in chronological order according to the day's sale not according to subject matter.
New Pocket Companion for Oxford (A)...to which are added Descriptions of...Blenheim, Ditchley, Heythrop , and Nuneham..., new edition, folding engraved map, 8 engraved plates, one loose and frayed at edges, original wrappers, rubbed and soiled, spine worn, preserved in modern board slip-case, Oxford, J.Cooke, 1809 § [Blore (Thomas)] A Guide to Burghley House, engraved frontispiece and plate, double-page pedigree, foxing, first few leaves loose, modern half calf preserving part of old spine, Stamford, Drakard, 1815 § Simond (Louis) Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain...by a French Traveller, 2 vol., first English edition, 21 hand-tinted aquatint plates by J. Clark after the author, 2 folding tables, engraved illustrations in text, advertisements at end of vol.2, contemporary calf, a little worn, Edinburgh, George Ramsay, 1815 § [Patmore (P.G.)] British Galleries of Art, 2 vol. including an extra-illustrated volume of plates, modern morocco-backed cloth, 1824 § plates Evans (John) An Excursion to Windsor...including an account of Strawberry-Hill and of Hampton-Court, second edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece (offset on title), light staining, original cloth, uncut, damp-stained, 1827, most rubbed, 8vo et infra (6)
NO RESERVE Redford (George) Art Sales. A History of Sales of Pictures and other Works of Art [1628-1887], 2 vol., original buckram gilt, slightly worn, uncut, 1888 § Graves (Algernon) Art Sales from Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century (mostly Old Master and Early English Pictures), 3 vol., engraved bookplate of Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, modern half morocco, t.e.g., 1918-21 § Parker (J.) Great Art Sales of the Century, 1975 § Keen (G.) The Sale of Works of Art: A Study based on the Times-Sotheby Index, 1971, plates and illustrations, the last two original boards with dust-jackets; and c.15 others on art sales, v.s. (c.20)
NO RESERVE Robinson (J.C.) Catalogue of the Soulages Collection...exhibited to the Public at...Marlborough House, original cloth, gilt, 1856 § Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom collected at Manchester in 1857, Advertisement dated 20th May 1857, half-title with map to verso, [1857] bound with Walk (A) through the Art-Treasures Exhibition at Manchester, under the guidance of Dr.Waagen...A Companion to the Official Guide, 1857 and Jerrold (W.Blanchard) Jerrold's Guide to the Exhibition..., folding plan, Manchester, 1857 and What to See and Where to See It! or the Operative's Guide to the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester 1857, plan at end, Manchester, 1857, together 4 works in 1 vol., modern half morocco, spine slightly faded; and another version of Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom collected at Manchester in 1857 marked "Provisional" (Advertisement dated 5th May 1857) and with an additional 100pp., 8vo (3)⁂ Jules Soulages (1803-57), a French lawyer, was a collector French and Italian Renaissance decorative art, mostly ceramics. On his death the collection was exhibited at Marlborough House and then formed the core of the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. After a lot of wrangling with the Treasury Henry Cole managed to purchase it for the nation for £11,000 in instalments from 1859-65.The Manchester exhibition was "the first opportunity for the public at large to inspect and to study the pictures, sculpture and ornamental art which private collectors had been amassing in the previous fifty years". The English as Collectors, p.312. It was inspired by the Great Exhibition of 1851, but this time on the theme of art rather than industry, and organised by Dr Waagen.
Rogers (Samuel) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Very Celebrated Collection of Works of Art...also, the Extensive Library..., 5 parts in 1 vol., ruled in red with prices and buyers' names supplied in manuscript, manuscript list of totals at end, title with short tear to lower edge and light water-staining to first few leaves, contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., rubbed, [Lugt 22964], Christie & Manson, 1856; and 2 others by or about Rogers, 8vo (3)⁂ Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) was a banker, poet, art collector and connoisseur whose lifetime spanned the peak of English collecting but he bought astutely and is supposed never to have exceeded £250 on a purchase. He acquired mainly Italian and English paintings and was one of the first to collect early Italian art but he also amassed prints & drawings, antiquities, sculpture, Greek vases, coins and furniture, and a vast library. The sale lasted for 20 days and totalled £45,188. 14s. 3d.; the National Gallery purchased several paintings besides the three Rogers bequeathed to the Gallery.Frank Herrmann's "favourite collection of 'works of art' of every kind!" The English as Collectors, p.435.
Roscoe (William) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the very select and valuable Library...which will be sold by auction...on Monday the 19th August, and Thirteen following Days, interleaved with prices and buyers' names neatly written in ink with leaf at end showing individual days' and other sales' totals, advertisement leaf for sales of Roscoe's prints, drawings and paintings at end, modern half calf, spine ruled in gilt and slightly faded, slip-case, 8vo, Liverpool, Winstanley, 1816.⁂ William Roscoe (1753-1831) of Liverpool was a lawyer, abolitionist, botanist, author, art collector and bibliophile. In 1816 the Liverpool bank of which he was a partner was in financial difficulties and he was forced to sell his library and collection. According to the leaf at end the library raised £5154 8s 6d. with the major lot being a 14th century Italian illuminated manuscript Bible which was bought by Robinson for £178 10s and subsequently sold to Coke of Holkham for 200 guineas. Several of the books were bought by his friend Coke and others were bought by friends for him but he refused to accept these and they were donated to the Liverpool Athenaeum. The whole collection, with prints, drawings and paintings, totalled £9586 19s.
Roscoe (William) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the very select and valuable Library..., 1816; [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Genuine and Entire Collection of Prints..., 1816; [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the...Collection of Drawings and Pictures..., 1816, 3 parts in 1, prices and some buyers' names in manuscript (names shaved), some spotting, contemporary half russia, worn, spine defective, Liverpool, Winstanley; List of the Numbers and Prices of the Library..., bound with similar lists for prints and drawings & pictures with index, original wrappers, torn, frayed and detached, Macclesfield, 1818; On the Origin and Vicissitudes of Literature, Science and Art, and their Influence on the Present State of Society. A Discourse delivered on the Opening of the Liverpool Royal Institution..., first edition, browned, modern marbled boards, Liverpool, 1817; and another on Roscoe, 8vo & 4to (4)⁂ Roscoe's art collection was intended to illustrate the rise and progress of the Arts and he was particularly interested in early Italian art or Primitives, being one of the first British collectors in this area. The List of Prices is interesting for it includes a 'Memoranda' leaf at the end which states that the collections of drawings and that of Italian pictures were each offered for sale as a collection, for £1000 in both cases (plus £500 for the German & Flemish paintings), but there being no bidders the items were then sold individually. According to the manuscript list of totals in the previous lot the prints made £1901 4s, the drawings £646 6s 6d. and the pictures £2885. This item is scarce; although occasionally found bound with the catalogues COPAC & WorldCat record only 2 separate copies of the 16pp. list of the library prices (Oxford and Trinity College, Hartford Ct.), and only one of the 10pp. list of print prices (Oxford) with no mention of the further 6pp. of prices of the drawings and pictures.
NO RESERVE Rudenstine (A.Z.) The Guggenheim Museum Collection: Paintings 1880-1945, 2 vol., New York, 1976 § Cheek (Leslie) & others. Painting in England 1700-1850: Collection of Mr & Mrs Paul Mellon, 2 vol., Richmond, Va., 1963 § Harvey (G.) Henry Clay Frick the Man, privately printed, 1936 § Carter (M.) Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court, 1926 § Getty (J.Paul) & others. The Joys of Collecting, 1966 § Walker (J.) & others. Art Treasures for America: an Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H.Kress Collection, 1961, plates and illustrations, original cloth or boards, all but the first and fourth with dust-jackets, the last two rubbed and frayed; and c.60 others on American art collectors and collections, several catalogues, 4to & 8vo (c.65)
Rushout (John, 2nd Baron Northwick) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the late Lord Northwick's Extensive and Magnificent Collection of Ancient and Modern Pictures...at Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, tinted lithographed frontispiece (lightly foxed), some prices in manuscript, frontispiece and first few leaves loose, original cloth, spine faded and with nick to joint, [Lugt 25025], Phillips, 1859 § [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Magnificent Contents of Alton Towers, the princely seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury, original cloth, rebacked preserving part of original spine, [Lugt 23727], Christie's, 1857 § Magniac (Hollingworth) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Renowned Collection of Works of Art..., original boards, [Lugt 50986], Christie's, 1892 § Taylor (John Edward) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Renowned Collection of Works of Art..., 2 vol., vol.1 with prices in manuscript, original boards, Christie's, 1912, plates, rubbed; and 12 other pre-First World War sale catalogues including John Watkins Brett, 1864; Robert Napier, 1877; Dr. John Percy, Part 1, 1890; Adrian Hope, 1894; Martin Heckscher, 1898, 4to & 8vo (14)⁂ The Alton Towers sale last 30 days but only realised £42,198 16s. "Many of the pictures...were bought in Rome in 1829 in one lot from Madame Bonaparte, mother of Napoleon, by the Shrewsbury family". The English as Collectors, p.433John Edward Taylor "was one of the proprietors of the Manchester Guardian, and the sale of his magnificent collection of every form of antique and pictures was one of the greatest before the beginning of the first world war. It raised a grand total of £385,500. A great deal of interest centred in Taylor's Turner drawings when, during a single day, Lockett Agnew bought 49 out of 61 items". The English as Collectors, p.436
NO RESERVE Seligman (Germain) Merchants of Art: 1880-1960. Eighty Years of Professional Collecting, New York, 1961 § Gimpel (René) Diary of an Art Dealer, 1966 § Maas (Jeremy) Gambart: Prince of the Victorian Art World, 1975 § Vollard (Ambroise) Recollections of a Picture Dealer, 1936 § Learmount (B.) A History of the Auction, 1985 § Manning (E.) & others. Colnaghi's 1760-1960, 1960 § Agnew (Geoffrey) Agnew's 1817-1967, 1967 § Allingham (E.G.) A Romance of the Rostrum, 1924, plates or illustrations, original cloth or boards, the first three with dust-jackets, most rubbed & frayed, the fourth damp-stained; and c.30 others on the art trade, 8vo & 4to (c.35)⁂ The first is a biography of the author's father, Jacques Seligman, a leading French art dealer.
Bennett (Sir William) A Collection of Rare Old Chinese Porcelains, Gorer, 1910 § Heukelom (W.F. van) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Well-Known Collection of Fine Chinese Porcelain of the Highest Quality, A.J.B.Kiddell's copy with his signature, prices and grateful A.L.s. from the vendor's ?son loosely inserted, cloth, original wrappers bound in, Sotheby's, 1937 § Eumorfopoulos (George) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes..., price list loosely inserted, original wrappers, Sotheby's, 1940 § Legeza (I.L.) A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum..., original cloth, dust-jacket, 1972, all with plates or illustrations, some colour, slightly rubbed; and c.35 other sale catalogues of Chinese ceramics & works of art including a bound volume of A.J.B.Kiddell's marked catalogues titled 'Early Ming Wares 1935-40: Eumorfopoulos, Hay, Russell, Wu Lai Hsi' on spine, 8vo & 4to (c.40)
Stafford Gallery.- Ottley (William Young) & Peltro William Tomkins. Engravings of the Most Noble The Marquis of Stafford's Collection of Pictures in London, 4 vol., half-titles to vol.1 only, 13 engraved plans and 126 plates, many with multiple images, tissue guards, some light foxing to plates, mostly marginal, vol.1 broken and loose, modern half morocco, uncut, original paper labels preserved on upper covers (rubbed and chipped at edges), Printed by Bensley and Son, 1818 § Young (John) A Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures, of the most noble the Marquess of Stafford, 2 vol., half-titles, engraved portrait and plates, many with multiple images, foxing, contemporary burgundy straight-grain morocco, spines gilt, uncut, rubbed, spines faded, 1825 § Britton (John) Catalogue Raisonné of the Pictures belonging to...the Marquess of Stafford, in the Gallery at Cleveland House, engraved frontispiece and plan, both foxed and offset, old ownership label of Frederica Sophia Broke pasted at head of title, contemporary half calf, rubbed, 1808; and another, v.s. (8)⁂ The gallery at Cleveland house was built by the Duke of Bridgewater in 1797 to house his purchase of part of the famous Orléans Collection, and on his death his superb art collection was inherited by his nephew, George Leverson-Gower, who became the 2nd Marquess of Stafford in 1803 and the 1st Duke of Sutherland in 1833. Stafford was the wealthiest man in England for much of his life and he greatly extended the collection, adding another picture gallery by C.H.Tatham in 1805-06 which became known as the Stafford Gallery.The first item contains plans of the rooms and the pictures on the walls. "This catalogue, in four monumental quarto volumes, was probably the most luxurious to have appeared in England by 1818...The collection was not only the most important of its day but one of the few open to the public...". The English as Collectors, p.432
Stowe.- Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (Richard, 2nd Duke of Buckingham) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Contents of Stowe House, near Buckingham, lithographed frontispiece and 2 plates, some prices and buyers' names supplied in manuscript, original printed blue wrappers, rubbed, frayed at edges, modern marbled slip-case, [Lugt 19122], Christie & Manson, 1848; [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Library removed from Stowe House, Buckinghamshire, 1849 bound with The Stowe Granger. Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits, [Lugt 19255], 1849 and Catalogue of the remaining portion of Engraved British Portraits, [Lugt 19283], 1849, together 3 works in 1 vol. (the second bound last), a few prices and buyers' names in manuscript, modern half morocco, calf label, S.Leigh Sotheby & Co. § Forster (Henry Rumsey) The Stowe Catalogue Priced and Annotated, mezzotint frontispiece of Rembrandt's Unmerciful Servant' (foxed), title in red & black, lists of both subscribers & purchasers, plates, advertisements at end, contemporary blind-stamped cloth, rebacked in calf, 1848 § Thompson (E.Maunde) Catalogue of a selection from the Stowe Manuscripts...in the British Museum, plates, bookplate of Rev. C.H.Middelton Wake with A.L.s. from the author to him tipped in, original cloth-backed boards, 1883 § [Sale Catalogue] The Ducal Estate of Stowe, catalogue no.300, plates, folding colour plans, joints split, original cloth-backed boards, rubbed, spine torn, Jackson Stops, 1921; and another on Stowe, v.s. (6)⁂ Group of sale catalogues of various portions of the great art collection and library at Stowe, following the bankruptcy in 1847 of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, who was rumoured to have left for the Continent with debts exceeding £1,000,000. The first sale of the contents totalled £75,562 4s 6d. It included the famous "Chandos Portrait" of Shakespeare which sold to the Earl of Ellesmere for £372 15s. and in 1856 became the first donation to the newly-created National Portrait Gallery. "A tragic sale this...It lasted thirty-five days and the prices were incredibly low. This was probably because such a vast accumulation of treasure by many generations of a single family was just more than the trade, collectors and local gentry between them could absorb at one go." The English as Collectors, p.435
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