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.
London,: Printed for William Bathoe, at his Circulating Library in the Strand, near Exeter Exchange., 1759.
Physical Description
vi, 151, [1] p., frontis.; 232 mm. (Folio.)
Contents
[Frontis., t.p., dedic.] - [Text].
Responsibility Note
The frontispiece and in-text illustrations are unsigned.
The work is dedicated by G. Vertue to 'Margaret-Cavendish-Holles Bentinck, Dutchess of Portland'.
References
ESTC, T14147
R.T. Godfrey, Wenceslaus Hollar, a Bohemian artist in England (1994)
R. Pennington, A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar, 1607-1677 (1982).
V. Denkstein, Hollar drawings (1979).
Summary Note
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.
Reproductions
An electronic reproduction was published in 2003 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale). A microfilm version was published in 1986 (Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications).
Binding Note
20th-century half calf, marbled-papered boards; red morocco spine-label lettered 'Vertues Works Of Hollar'.