xii, 159, 159*-162*, 163-178 pp., 8 blank leaves, one leaf of colophon. Small 4to, orig. cloth-backed light blue boards (extremities slightly rubbed), t.e.g., others uncut. London: Chiswick Press, 1916.

One of 60 numbered copies of this privately printed catalogue describing a famous collection of miniatures, with many contemporary annotations. Hothfield (1844-1926), a Liberal politician, has inscribed this copy to “L.S. Myers” on April 24th, 1918. In the preface, George C. Williamson (1858-1942), a leading expert on miniatures, writes that this collection “is composed almost exclusively of miniatures belonging to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and whilst the foremost men of... More