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Title: A Little Gallery of Romney
Description: London, Methuen and Co, 1903. First edition. Cloth. A scarce 'Little Gallery' book containing twenty plates of paintings from George Romney, bound in attractive decorative cloth. The first edition of this scarce work.Bound in the publisher's pleasing gilt-decorated cloth.  Collated, complete with twenty tissue-guarded monochrome plates, including a frontispiece of the artist. A delightful little gallery book containing a series of paintings from George Romney, a fashionable English portrait artist who painted many leading society figures, including his muse, Emma Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson. Pieces shown here include 'Lady Hamilton as Cassandra', 'Serena Reading' and 'Lady Craven&apos. With a chronology of Romney's life to the beginning of the work. In the original decorative cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with slight rubbing to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with light spotting to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: George Romney. Very Good .

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