Author: GRAVE (Robert)
Title: A Catalogue of the Valuable and Select Collection of Prints, the Property of the late Highly Respected and Eminent Collector Mr. Robert Grave... Consisting of British Portraits... Part the First [-Third]... Which will be Sold by Auction, By Mr. Sotheby... on Friday, the 19th Day of May, 1826 [Part the Second - On Thursday, the 26th of April, 1827; Part the Third - On Friday, the 15th of June, 1827].
Description: London: Sotheby, 1826-27. 3 parts bound in one, royal 8vo (247 x 150 mm), [2], 82; [iv], 94; [4], 51, [1]pp., small hole (probably a paper flaw) in pp. 39/40 of part I with slight loss of a few letters only, one gathering a little foxed and browned, later brick red cloth titled in gilt on spine. Each of the 3 parts of this scarce auction catalogue have their own title pages. Part I consists on portraits; part II consists of more portraits as well as old master prints by Dürer, Rembrandt, Callot and others; part III, called the concluding part, consists of more prints of British subjects, drawings and illustrated books, etc. BL and V&A copies only on JISC.

Keywords: PRINTS & PORTRAITS AUCTION ENGRAVINGS ANTIQUARIAN