Catalogue of the Pictures at Leigh Court, near Bristol… with Etchings from the whole Collection…and...
81 etchings on 33 plates. 4 p.l., 32, [2] pp. Large 4to, orig. half-red morocco & marbled boards, (spine expertly rebacked, new endpapers), spine gilt. London: W. Bulmer & W. Nicol, 1822.
An uncommon catalogue. Miles (1774-1845), “typifies the new class of merchant, having made his money financing the building of railways and of the Avonmouth docks. Miles bought Leigh Court, near Bristol, for which he assembled an extraordinary collection of works attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, Correggio, the Carracci, Guercino, Van Dyck and a Giorgione now in the National Gallery, London, but his fame rests on the purchase of... More