A Descriptive And Historical Catalogue Of The Collection Of Pictures At Woburn Abbey. By George Scharf, F.S.A., Keeper And Secretary To The National Portrait Gallery. First Part. Portraits. For Revision.
London:: Printed By Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1877. [Limited to 50 Copies.]
Physical Description
2 parts in one vol.; 260 mm. (Octavo.)
General Note
Pt. I: p. [4], [1-]202. - Pt. II: p. [4], 203-336, errata slip.
Contents
Pt. I: [Half-t., t.p.] - [Text] - [Divisional t.p., 'Busts'] - [Text] - Blank Pages For Additions In Manuscript - Index To Portraits; [colophon]. - Pt. II: [Half-t., t.p.] - [Text] - [Divisional t.p., 'Raphael tapestries'] - [Text] - [Divisional t.p., 'Miniatures'] - [Text] - Index To Subjects In Part II - Alphabetical Index Of Artists, With Brief Biographical Notices, And Reference To Their Works In This Collection; [colophon] - [Slip, 'Corrigenda To Index To Portraits'].
Responsibility Note
The printers' names are repeated in the colophons and on the versos of the title-pages: 'London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., Printers, Whitefriars.'
Summary Note
The title of Part II reads, 'A Descriptive And Historical Catalogue Of The Pictures At Woburn Abbey. Part II. Comprising Imaginary Subjects, landscapes, Miniatures, Drawings, And Enamels. Arranged Under The Names Of The Artists, With Biographical Notices Incorporated, And General Index. By George Scharf, F.S.A., Keeper And Secretary To The National Portrait Gallery. For Revision. London: Printed By Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. 1877. [Limited to 50 Copies.]'.
Provenance
The front pastedown is inscribed in ink, 'From the Duke of Bedford' (i.e. F.C.H. Russell, 9th Duke?). However the volume is listed as purchased for the RA Library in the RA Annual Report for 1877 (p. 47).
Binding Note
19th-century green cloth-covered boards; blue morocco spine-label lettered 'Catalogue of Portraits At Woburn Abbey'.