Author: SMITH (John Thomas):
Title: Nollekens and his Times: Comprehending a Life of that Celebrated Sculptor: and Memoirs of Several Contemporary Artists, from the time of Roubiliac, Hogarth, and Reynolds, to that of Fuseli, Flaxman, and Blake.
Description: London: Henry Colburn..., 1828. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. x, 424; vi, 488, engraved portrait as frontispiece, contemporary hard grain plum morocco in two tones, gilt spines (slightly worn); ex-library, with the bookplate of the Royal Artillery Regimental Library, Woolwich, in each volume and library stamp on blank end-paper. Smith was keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum. At the end of volume 2, there is a short section on Blake, with some curious anecdotes and details of the Blake material in the collection of Richard Thomson.

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