Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1994.
Hardcover. Quart, 8-1/2 x 11-1/8", blue cloth,702pp, dictionary of painters, bibliography, index, 860 black & white illustrations, 165 colour plates Else Fine / Very Good. Item #900106
ISBN: 1851490639
Combines "Collecting Miniatures" (1979) with the revised and updated biographical details of some 4,400 artists from the "Dictionary of British Miniature Painters" (first published in 1972). With information on the dating of costume, idiosyncrasies of individual artists, restoration of paintings, and fakes, forgeries and "improvements." Minor faint speckled spotting to fore-edge, otherwise a clean, crisp, square copy, near fine in dust wrapper with modest wear to extreme edges and a single 7/8" tape-repaired tear bottom edge at dust wrapper flap, in protective mylar
Price: $100.00