[CATALOGUE.]

A Catalogue of a Grand and Curious Collection of Ancient and Modern Engravings and Etchings, Consigned from Abroad; which has been many years collecting, by an Eminent Connoisseur, at a vast expense, containing upwards of Four Thousand Fine Prints, the works of the following old masters, Albert Durer, Rubens, Vandycke, and Jordeans. Also the etchings of Carrache, Guido...With all the famous Portraits of Vandycke, Lely, Kneller, Reynolds, etc....Now offered to the Public by Walter Shropshire, Bookseller and Printseller, No. 120. New Bond Street...The sale to begin on the first of February 17...

[No publisher.] N.D. [1769] First edition. 8vo. pp. [4], 63, [1]. Evidently Shropshire had secured a valuable collection. On the title-page is the note, "The collection is remarkably fine, and well worth the attention of the Curious, as the Engravings were done under the immediate inspection of the painters, or etched by them, which makes this collection really valuable. The whole being in the finest preservation, and fit to adorn the Cabinet of a Prince." The identity of the vendor is not known. 1246 items are listed, among them a large number of original works by Rembrandt and Durer. Shropshire was primarily a second-hand bookseller, trading from 1751-1785 in Bond Street. He was also a binder and was appointed binder in ordinary to the King, though no example of his work is known. Disbound. Contemporary inscription on the title-page: "recied 1s for Geo. Kearsley" (the well-known bookseller?). In the upper corner is the initial G. followed by a cropped, illegible initial. Last two pages of the catalogue are badly stained, the text remaining legible, and with one small hole affecting some letters but not the sense. Scarce: BL and British Museum Department of Prints and Drawings only in ESTC.

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