1st Annual Volume of the Walpole Society, 1911-1912

Oxford, England: The Walpole Society, 1912. Hardcover. Good-covers quite ugly from dampstaining contains untouched and clean, scattered minor occurances of foxing. Blue boards. 91+ pp. 39 bw plates. The Walpole Society was founded in April, 1911, to promote the study of British art history. Contents as follows: Nicholas Hilliard's Treatise concerning 'The arte of limning, ' / with an introd. and notes by Philip Norman--A Sketch of English mediaeval figure-sculpture / by Edward S. Prior--London and Westminster painters in the Middle Ages / by W.R. Lethaby--Reynold's first portrait of Keppel / by Lennard O'Malley, C.H. Collins Baker--Turner's 'Isle of (truncated) Wight' sketch-book / by Alexander J. Finberg. (Inventory #: 13635)