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[Drawing] Drawings of the old masters in the University Galleries and in the library of

Christ Church Oxford. Selected and arranged with notes and introductions by Sidney Colvin (...). Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1907, 3 vols., with 42/ 43/ 42 plates (incl. 1 bis-plate in vol. II) with descriptive text on the protective sheets (occ. with folds), original uniform gilt-lettered half morocco, top edges gilt, large folio (leather sl. rubbed and faded on spine).

I. Schools of Florence and Lombardy; II. Schools of central Italy, the Emilia, Verona, Padua, and Venice; III. Schools of Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and France. Lugt, Les Marques de Collections (1921), no. 2545: "La Bibliothèque du Collège de Christ Church, á Oxford, possède, outre d'autres oeuvres d'art, une remarquable collection de dessins anciens (1734 ff.), formée au XVIIIe siècle par le général John Guise et léguée par lui, à sa mort, en 1765. (...) Sidney Colvin publia un choix des plus belles dans son excellent ouvrage (...)." (total 3)

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