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003 $ UK-LoRAA
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Vertue
245 1 2 $a A Description Of The Works Of the ingenious Delineator and Engraver Wenceslaus Hollar, Disposed Into Classes of Different Sorts; With some Account of His Life. By George Vertue, A Member of the Society of Antiquaries. The Second Edition, with Additions.
260 # # $a London, $b Printed for William Bathoe, at his Circulating Library in the Strand, near Exeter Exchange. $c 1759.
300 # # $a vi, 151, [1] p., frontis.; $c 232 mm. (Folio.)
505 0 # $a [Frontis., t.p., dedic.] - [Text].
508 # # $a The frontispiece and in-text illustrations are unsigned.

The work is dedicated by G. Vertue to 'Margaret-Cavendish-Holles Bentinck, Dutchess of Portland'.
510 4 # $a ESTC $c T14147
510 3 # $a R.T. Godfrey, Wenceslaus Hollar, a Bohemian artist in England (1994)
510 3 # $a R. Pennington, A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar, 1607-1677 (1982).
510 3 # $a V. Denkstein, Hollar drawings (1979).
520 2 # $a The catalogue is followed by a note, 'Mr. Wenceslaus Hollar's Ground for Etching in Copper or Brass; with his Directions how to use it', 'The Life Of Wenceslaus Hollar, Engraver' and a note on a monumental inscription to Hollar.

The frontispiece shows 'A Table of Hollar's Works divided into Classes, to distinguish the Several Dimentions of the Prints', at the top of which is a view of London.

The title-page vignette shows a portrait of Wenceslaus Hollar (after a painting by Jan Meyssens) with heraldic crests. One headpiece shows a view of Prague; another, a bust surrounded by books, prints and other engraved matter. The tailpiece which ends the work shows a monumental inscription to Hollar. The work is further decorated with small tailpieces.
533 # # $n An electronic reproduction was published in 2003 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale). A microfilm version was published in 1986 (Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications).
563 # # $a 20th-century half calf, marbled-papered boards; red morocco spine-label lettered 'Vertues Works Of Hollar'.
600 1 4 $a Hollar
653 # # $a Drawings - Engravings - Etchings - Draughtsmen - Engravers - Etchers - Artists - Europe - Germany - Netherlands - Great Britain - History - 17th century
655 # 0 $a Catalogues - Biography - Great Britain - 18th century
700 1 # $a Bathoe $e publisher
700 1 # $a Meyssens $e source artist