[Rarebooks] FS: Collecting Pictures in 1849

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

"The Picture Collector’s Manual, Adapted to the Professional Man, and the
Amateur; being a Dictionary of Painters containing fifteen hundred more
names than any other work, together with an Alphabetical Arrangement of
the Scholars, imitators, and copyists of the various masters"

By James B. Hobbes. Published in London by T. & W. Boone: 1849.

An important early art dictionary, the most unusual features of which were
contained in Volume 2, which consists of an extensive biographical
dictionary of masters followed by notes on their imitators, students and
followers. This is followed by a list of picture subjects, such as
Allegory, Ancient History, Candlelight Pieces, Landscapes, River Views,
etc., with lists of those artists who specialized in them. 2 volumes.
Hardcover. 6”x9”, xxii + 508 and iv + 640 pages. Publisher’s brown
embossed cloth with gilt spine titles. Spines lightly sunned, covers with
some soil, contents fine and bright.   $200~

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