Anecdotes of Painting in England; with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts. Collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; and now digested and published from his original MSS. by Mr. Horace Walpole. The third edition, with additions. [In three volumes]. To which is added The History of The Modern Taste in Gardening. The second edition with additions. [In one volume, with, also one volume] A Catalogue of Engravers, who have been born, or resided in England; digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the MSS. of Mr George Vertue; to which is added an account of the life and works of the latter

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5 vols. Contemporary calf, maroon and black labels. Some joints cracking, two joints strengthened, upper covers of vols i and iii rather marked, but a pretty set. With the armorial bookplates of Richard Board; later (Sebastian Carter) book-label of David J. Hall. Anecdotes first published at Strawberry Hill, 1762-71, Modern Gardening 1771. "For some years his stages were marked by noble encouragement, and by opportunities of pursuing his favorite erudition. He was invited whither he would have wished to make pilgrimages, for the love of antiquity is a kind of devotion, and Mr. Vertue had different sets of saints. In 1728 the duke of Dorset called him to Knowle. Humble before his superiors, one conceives how his respect was heightened at entering so venerable a pile, realizing to his eyes the scenes of many a waking vision. Here he drew several of the poets. But he was on fairy ground; Arcadia was on the confines; could he resist an excursion to Penshurst? One may judge how high his enthusiasm had been wrought, by the mortification he expresses at not finding there a portrait of Sir Philip Sidney. In 1730 appeared his twelve heads of poets, one of his capital works. Though poetry was but a sister art, he treated it with the affection of a relation. He had collected many notes touching the professors, and here and there in his MSS. are some slight attempts of his own. But he was of too timid and correct a nature to soar where fancy only guides. Truth was his province, and he had a felicity uncommon to antiquaries, he never suffered his imagination to lend him eyes. Where he could not discover he never supplied." Richard Board is conceivably Richard Board (1732-1782), apothecary, of the family of Board of Pax Hill, Sussex, but more likely his son the Revd Richard Board (1764-1859), for 67 years Vicar of Westerham, Kent. N° de ref. del artículo 28M100565

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