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    • Author/Creator:Beckford, William, 1760-1844.
    • Title:Biographical memoirs of extraordinary painters.
    • Published/Created:London : Printed for J. Robson ..., 1780.
    • Physical Description:[4], 158, [2] ; 19 cm.(8vo)
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    • Local Notes:BEIN Beckford 1 copy 1: Presentation inscription from Benjamin West to Thomas Phillips, with Phillips' autograph.
      BEIN Beckford 1 copy 2: Bookplate and Autograph of Henry William Vincent. Presentation copy to Henry William Vincent from Elizabeth Hervey, William Beckford's half-sister.
      BEIN Beckford 1 copy 3: Ms. list of attempted identification of the painters, tipped in at front. Bookplate of Arthur Atherley.
      BEIN Im B388 780B copy 1: Front edges uncut.
      BEIN Im B388 780B copy 2: Uncut, in original marbled wrappers. In ms. on t.-p.: "Given me by the author Wm: Beckford Esqre. not twenty year's old. Strafford".
      BEIN 1997 1156: Bookplates: Rowland Burdon Muller; William Dickinson Esq. Ms. notes. Stubs visible preceding sig. X.
    • Notes:"A mystification composed ... in ridicule of the biographies in the 'Vies des peintres flamands'".--Dict. Nat. Biog.
      Signatures: pi² B-X⁴.
      Errata: p. [160].
    • Format:Book
    • References:English short title catalogue, T62056
    • Subjects:Art--Anecdotes.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1780.
      Beckford, William, 1760-1844--Provenance. (BAC)
      Clements, Henry J. B. (Henry John Beresford), 1869-1940--Bookplate.
      Robson, J.--Publisher. (BAC)
      Phillips, Thomas, 1770-1845--Autograph.
      West, Benjamin, 1738-1820--Presentation copy to T. Phillips.
      Vincent, Henry William--Autograph.
      Hervey, Elizabeth--Presentation copy to H.W. Vincent.
      Atherley, Arthur Harry Howard--Bookplate.
      Phillips, Thomas, 1770-1845--Presentation copy from B. West.
      Vincent, Henry William--Bookplate.
      Vincent, Henry William--Presentation copy from E. Hervey.
      Dickinson, William, Esq.--Bookplate.
      Muller, Rowland Burdon--Bookplate.
      Strafford--Ms. notes.