A Collection of Fifty Prints from Antique Gems : In the Collections of the Right Honourable Earl Percy, the Honourable C. F. Greville, and T. M. Slade, Esquire.

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Contemporary quarter-morocco and boards, untrimmed, 4to, 29 cm, 4 pp, 50 plates A 1781 prospectus in the British Library indicates that the work was proposed to be published in " four numbers, each containing ten prints. . If this work meets the approbation of the public, it will be continued, and a number published every three months". 'A collection of fifty prints from antique gems' was published in 1785. The gems illustrated are from the Percy, Greville and Slade collections. Sinkankas 6289. Covers worn and rubbed with some loss at extremities, contents foxed. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-29699

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