Beschreibung:

Title: Miniature Painters, British and Foreign With Some Account of Those Who Practised in America in the Eighteenth Century Author: Foster, J.J. Place: London and New York Publisher: Dickinsons and E.P. Dutton & Co. Date: 1903 Description: 2 volumes. Volume 1: frontispiece with 2 hand-colored miniatures and 148 photogravures on 77 plates; Volume 2: frontispiece with a hand-colored miniature of Napoleon and 71 photogravures on 44 plates. (Folio) 35.5x25.5 cm. (14x10") publisher's full vellum lettered in gilt, yapp edges, ribbon ties, top edges gilt. No. 25 of 45 copies of the Edition Royale. First Edition. This edition signed by the author and with 30 of the miniatures beautifully hand-colored. Text includes lists of the owner's of the miniatures illustrated and a catalogue of the miniatures sold at Strawberry Hill in 1842. Quite scarce in this edition. Lot Amendments Condition: Some light soiling to the vellum covers; deterioration to the ribbon placemarkers; internally fine. Item number: 222435