Beschreibung:

A GROUP OF SIXTY REFERENCE BOOKS AND CATALOGUES ON PORTRAIT MINIATURES including Les Émaux de Petitot (1862, 2 vols.) by L. Ceroni, A History of Miniature Art (1887) by J. L. Propert, George Engleheart (1902, copy no. 43 of the 53 hand-coloured Author's copies), Andrew & Nathaniel Plimer (1903), The History of Portrait Miniatures (1904, 2 vols.), 'Portrait Miniatures' in The Studio (1910) by G. C. Williamson, Miniature Painters British & Foreign (1903, 2 vols., copy no. 59 of the signed Edition de Luxe ) by J. J. Foster, 'Early English Portrait Miniatures' in The Studio (1917) by H. A. Kennedy, British Miniaturists (1929) by B. S. Long, the 1948 Hilliard Exhibition catalogue and rare auction catalogues including J. Pierpont Morgan, E. Wertheimer, H. Seal, Ashcroft and Rockliff (60)