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WAAGEN, Dr.
Treasures of Art in Great Britain:
Being an account of the chief collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, illuminated MSS., &c. &c. In three volumes. [Together with supplemental volume IV] Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain.
First English edition. This remains a key source for the provenance of paintings then in England.
4 volumes, octavo (218 × 133 mm). Contemporary mottled brown calf, two black morocco labels, elaborate decoration to spines, roll to boards and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Bookplate to front pastedown of each volume, some occasional light foxing, spines a little rubbed, overall an excellent set.
