The Picture Collector's Manual, being a dictionary of painters, containing fifteen hundred more names than in any other work, together with an alphabetical arrangement of the Scholars, imitators and copyists of the various masters, and a classification of subjects. Complete in Two Volumes / By James R. Hobbes
1849, 1st edition. London : T. & W. Boone. Very good copies both in [later, near contemporary] gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Some light foxing to prelims. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Some annotations in pen and pencil. Item #406919
Physical description; 2 volumes : colour illustrations in vol. 1 ; 22 cm. Notes; Printed in 2 columns per page. Printer statement on final page: "G. Norman, printer ...". Contents; Vol. 1. Dictionary of names. Vol. 2. Alphabetical arrangement of scholars and masters, and classification of subjects. Subjects; Dictionaries. Painters. Painters Dictionaries.
Price: €75.00