A Catalogue of Illuminated and Historical Manuscripts and Choice and Valuable Books: Selections from Several Private Libraries, Comprising Chiefly Works Relating to English History, Poetry, and Belles LettresB. Quaritch, 1896 - 112 Seiten |
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Seite 69 - COMPLETE DES TABLEAUX, STATUES ET BAS-RELIEFS, qui composent la Collection Nationale, avec l'Explication des Sujets, et des Discours sur la Peinture, la Sculpture, et la Gravure, par SC Croze-Magnan, Visconti et David, publiée par Robillard-Peronville et Laurent, 4 vols, atlas folio, 343 superb plates (published at £157.)
Seite 69 - SAVERY (Thomas) Navigation improv'd, or the art of rowing ships of all rates in calms with a more easy, swift, and steady motion than oars can. Also a description of the engine that performs it,
Seite 95 - 1876 The original MS. is an interesting relic of English art at the end of the thirteenth or beginning of the fourteenth century. Of a book of this kind, a copy on vellum is of
Seite 42 - A COLLECTION OF THE DRESSES of different Nations, Antient and Modern ; particularly old English Dresses. After the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar, and others. With an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken ; and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added, The Habits of the principal Characters on the English Stage. 4 vols.
Seite 55 - HAYWARD (Sir John). The First Part of the Life and raigne of King Henrie the IIII . . Written by IH Imprinted at London by lohn Wolfe . . 1599. Small 4to.
Seite 56 - WORKS, from the Original Plates, restored by JAMES HEATH, with the addition of many subjects not before collected, with Biographical Essay and Explanations of the Subjects of the Plates by JOHN NICHOLS, atlas folio,
Seite 37 - le Duc, like our own Pugin, mastered the details of ancient furniture, iron work, tapestry, glass, and other subsidiary applications of design in a manner which made him the highest authority on this vast subject. The famous ' Dictionnaire Raisonné de l'Architecture,' published in ten volumes between 1854 and 1868, has its sequel in the
Seite 39 - II is signed by the bookseller Edward Blount, there is no apparent difference in the style of the volumes, which remain, in spite of all drawbacks, the most natural and spirited English version of Don Quixote. It is curious to observe how much Mr. Watts is indebted to Shelton for idiomatic turns of speech.
Seite 86 - DUGDALE (Sir W.) ANTIQUITIES OP WARWICKSHIRE, SECOND EDITION, printed from a copy corrected by the author, the whole revised, augmented, and continued to the present time, by W. THOMAS, 2 vols. folio, portrait by Hollar, maps and numerous plates, some margins slightly stained, old calf
Seite 84 - 10 0 The grand and picturesque effects of this great master of the school of English landscape painters are powerfully exhibited in this, which, after the Liber Studiorum, may be considered his finest work. The engravings were executed by the best English artists, and possess all the fidelity to nature of the original drawings.