BEIN X348 S620 1786/4/24 Copy 1: With the "No." on t.p., left blank. Inscribed: Georgina Mary Anne Port. Windsor April 1786. Copy 2: With the "No." on t.p., with "1006" in ms. Bound with: Skinner and Co. A marked catalogue containing the lots, what each respectively sold for, and the names of the purchasers. London : Printed for Kearsley ... Walker ... Sewell ... Flexney ... Robson ... and Egerton ..., 1786., Frontispiece engraved by Charles Grignion; after Edward Francis Burney., Signatures: pi⁴ A-2A⁴., At foot of titlepage: "No.", the actual number to be inserted in MS.; a variant is without "No." at the foot of the titlepage., A price list entitled 'A marked catalogue containing the lots' was published in the same year., The present sale catalog, and the image depicted in its frontispiece, served as the primary point of reference for "Promiscuous assemblage, friendship & the order of things: an installation by Jane Wildgoose in celebration of the friendship between Mrs. Delany & the Duchess Dowager of Portland." The installation accompanied the exhibition "Mrs. Delany and Her Circle" (Yale Center for British Art and Sir John Soane's Museum, 2009-2010)., BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary quarter calf with marbled boards. Armorial bookplates: Wm. Simonds Higgs and Baron Northwick. No. 1277 (completed in ms. on title page). Includes an added engraving of the Portland Vase printed in blue, tipped in at end., and BAC: British Art Center has an additional unbound copy of the frontispiece (QH70.G72 P67 1786a+).
Publisher:
Catalogues may now be had on the premises, and of Mr. Skinner and Co ...
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Wildgoose, Jane,, Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785, and Portland Museum
Subject (Topic):
Library, Auctions, Natural history, Zoological specimens, Catalogs and collections, Art objects, Shells, and Booksellers' catalogs
Signatures: pi⁴, A-2A⁴., At foot of titlepage: "No.", the actual number to be inserted in MS.; a variant is without "No." at the foot of the titlepage., LWL 49 3902: With "No." on t.p. with "753" in ms. 2000 catalogues were sold before the sale began., LWL 49 3902: Horace Walpole's copy with his annotations, including a four-page, signed letter providing a history of the collection., and Original marbled boards with calf back, now rebacked. Large Strawberry Hill fleuron used as Bookplate, and fleuron from Anecdotes at end. Press-mark X.7. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Publisher:
Catalogues may now be had on the premises, and of Mr. Skinner and Co ...
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711-1774, auctioneer, publisher
Published / Created:
[1755]
Call Number:
125 L278 755 3/11
Image Count:
172
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Priced., Signatures: A-B⁴., The seller was the physician and antiquarian Dr. Richard Mead, 1673-1754. This sale appears to be the English version of the second part of an earlier sale of the Museum Meadianum, which was printed in Latin.--Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques., MED,HSL 17th cent: Bound with the author's A catalogue of pictures, London, 1755., BAC: British Art Center copy annotated in pen and ink with prices for all lots. Armorial bookplate: Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Bound in contemporary smooth calf. Bound with Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive, Catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. London, 1754., and With extensive ms. notes recording prices paid throughout. Title pages are ruled in red.
Publisher:
Abraham Langford
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, Great Britain, and England.
Subject (Name):
Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Art auctions, Art, Private collections, Decorative arts, Prices, Private libraries, and House furnishings
Errata slip mounted on p. [ix]., Description based on print version record., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b316083, and Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Law Library, 2018. YL 05 L61 no.12
Publisher:
Published for the Yale Law Library by Yale University Press and G. Cumberlege, Oxford University Press
The frontispiece is dated 1795 and is included in the Contents list., Frontispiece of William Hogarth, 2 leaves (letterpress title page and "A catalogue of the original works of William Hogarth contained in this volume"), and 110 engravings on 85 leaves., and Bound in full contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering piece, rebacked. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by John and Josiah Boydell, at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall-Mall, and No. 90, Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
English wit and humor, Pictorial, Social life and customs, and Manners and customs
