Author: Long, Basil
Title: British Miniaturists
Description: London, Geoffrey Bles, 1929. Hardcover. Large Quarto. Hardcover. Bound in black cloth with gilt titles. xxxiii, 475 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits (1 color), facsimile ; 32 x 25 cm. A comprehensive Dictionary of British Miniaturists, preceded by an account of miniature portrait painting in this country, and contains the most complete list of these artists which has yet been published. It gives the salient facts about their careers (with bibliographical references and lists of works in public galleries and private collections), critical notes about their technique and information about signatures, references to reproductions of miniatures in books and periodicals, and lists of miniature painters who worked in various provincial centres. VG. Previous owners bookplate inside front cover, else clean and unmarked.

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