Author: Matthew Pilkington, edited by Allan Cunningham:
Title: A General Dictionary of Painters ; containing memoirs of the lives and works of the most eminent Professors of the art of painting, from its revival by Cimabue, in the year 1250, to the present time.
Description: London: William Tegg & co, 1852. Later edition, complete in one hardback volume. 8vo (22cm by 14cm), cxii, 623pp. Portrait frontispiece of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Bound in half brown calf, marbled boards, title label and gilt tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers. Binding rather rubbed, light foxing of the preliminary pages, lengthy gift inscription. Overall, this copy is in good condition.

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