Catalogue of the Collection of Plumbago, Pen and Ink, and Pencil Drawings and Miniatures, also a comprehensive Series of Prints and Autograph Letters relating to Richard Cosway
( Plumbagoes ) ( Richard COSWAY ) WELLESLEY, Francis
28 June 1920. Sale Code: GUN. [Illustrated Edition.]
FIRST AUCTION OF PLUMBAGOES: THE ILLUSTRATED EDITION WITH PRICES IN MS
Published: Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, 1920
Stock code: 26747
Price: £195.00
8vo., First Edition, [Illustrated Issue] , with tinted and monochrome plates, all lots with prices realised annotated in MS; newly and strongly bound in grey boards, original front wrapper mounted on upper board, a near fine copy.
With the separately printed errata slip mounted following Introduction. The sale comprises 882 lots. 'This catalogue represents the first sale on record of plumbago drawings, and Mr. Wellesley's collection includes some of the finest examples it has been possible to obtain. Mr. Wellesley has had but one serious rival in collecting plumbagoes, and he has been left far behind. Even the National collections have been outdistanced. David Loggan is represented at his very best, and the drawings by Faithorne, Nanteuil and Robert White are the finest that have ever come into the market' (introduction). EXTREMELY SCARCE.