| 001 | $ 07/3574 | ||
| 003 | $ UK-LoRAA | ||
| 041 | 0 | # | $a eng |
| 044 | # | # | $a uk |
| 245 | 0 | 0 | $a Observations On The Present State Of The Royal Academy: With Characters Of Living Painters. By An Old Artist. - [Epigraph] - |
| 260 | # | # | $a London: $b Printed At The Logographic Press; And Sold By J. Walter, No. 169, Opposite Old Bond-Street, Piccadilly. $c M, DCC, XC. [Price Two Shillings.] $c [1790] |
| 300 | # | # | $a [2], 29, [1] p.; $c 258 mm. (Quarto.) |
| 510 | 4 | # | $a ESTC $c T185639 |
| 510 | 3 | # | $a H. Hoock, The King's Artists: The Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture 1760-1840 (2003). |
| 520 | 2 | # | $a This anonymous pamphlet was published in the year in which the Royal Academy's president, Sir Joshua Reynolds, resigned in a fit of pique when his favoured candidate Joseph Bonomi ARA failed to win election as the Academy's Professor of Perspective. Although the author suggests that Benjamin West would make a better president than Reynolds, West was not elected until after Reynolds' death on 23 February 1792. |
| 561 | # | # | $a The front pastedown carries the 19th-century bookplate of 'BO'. Purchased 1963 (Sydney Lee Fund, £10). |
| 562 | # | # | $a The front pastedown is inscribed in ink, 'DW / 2. Vol. [illegible] R.', and in pencil 'Very Scarce'. |
| 563 | # | # | $a Contemporary quarter red morocco, marbled-papered boards; spine lettered 'Observations On The Academy.' |
| 600 | 1 | 4 | $a Reynolds |
| 610 | 2 | 4 | $a Royal Academy of Arts (London) |
| 653 | # | # | $a Academies - Artists - Societies - Great Britain - London - History - 18th century |
| 655 | # | 0 | $a Essays - Memoirs - Great Britain - 18th century |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Walter $e bookseller |
| 710 | 2 | # | $a Logographic Press $e printer |