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Author: Worlidge, T[homas]
Title: A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems; Most of Them in the Possession of the Nobility and Gentry of This Kingdom; Etched After the Manner of Rembrandt
Place Published: London
Publisher:Printed by Dryden Leach [for the author]
Date Published: 1768 [but after 1780]
Description:

2 volumes in 1. [2], 48 pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece; 182 engraved plates (including un-captioned supplemental plate of Hercules slaying the Nemaean lion). (4to) 26.5x19.5 cm (10½x8"), later full green morocco, gilt strap-work border on covers, spine gilt, all edges gilt. Second Edition.

Originally published in 1768 in an octavo edition with the engravings printed on satin, this quarto edition, though bearing the date of 1768, was published after 1780. Lacking the list of subscribers and half-title to second volume (plates 91-180). Sinkankis 7333. With the bookplate of art collector and philanthropist Solomon R. Guggenheim.

Some wear to extremities, front joint and hinge repaired; some foxing; very good.