Lot 537

BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB. Exhibition of English Embroidery. [etc.]

Estimate: £300 - £500
Hammer price: £200
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB. Exhibition of English Embroidery executed prior to the Middle of the XVI Century. London: Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1905. Large 4to (405 x 320mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece, plates, some coloured (occasional spotting and staining). Original grey buckram gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. Provenance: John R. Menzies (label). With 6 other books printed by the Burlington Fine Arts Club, namely Exhibition of Pictures by Masters of the Netherlandish and Allied Schools of XV. and Early XVI. Centuries (London, 1892), Exhibition of Pictures, Drawings & Photographs of Works of the School of Ferrara-Bologna 1440-1540, Also of Medals of Members of the Houses of Este and Bentivoglio (London, 1894), Exhibition of a Collection of Silversmiths’ Work of European Origin (London, 1901), Exhibition of Pictures of the School of Sienna and Examples of the Minor Arts of that City (London, 1904), Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art (London, 1904) and Exhibition of Early English Earthenware (London, 1914), all bound in original buckram; with 4 substantial 4to sale catalogues in 5 vols., namely Catalogue des Objets d’ Art et d’ Ameublement [etc.] … [half title:] Vente après Décès de Madame la Comtesse de C. T. [Clermont-Tonnerere] (Paris, 1900), Catalogue des Objets d’ Art et d’ Ameublement … Collections de Mme. C. Lelong (Paris, 1903, 2 vols.), Katalog der Sammlung Baron Königswarter in Wien. II. Abteilung: Gemälde alter Meister (Berlin, 1906) and Tableaux Anciens et Modernes … Provenant de la Collection X… [Groult] (Paris, 1920). The sale catalogues are substantially marked with prices in a contemporary hand and, intermittently, with buyer’s names. The lot sold not subject to return. (12)

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