6th Annual Volume of the Walpole Society, 1917-1918

Oxford, England: The Walpole Society, 1918. Hardcover. VG-, soiling to covers, foxing to endpapers, minor chipping to cover edges. Blue boards. 130 pp. 1 color, 43 bw plates. The Walpole Society was founded in April, 1911, to promote the study of British art history. Contains the following chapters: "Two Anonymous Portraits by Cornelius Johnson", "The Lumley Inventories", "A Lumley Inventory of 1609", "Gawen Hamilton: An Unknown Scottish Portrait Painter", "Liverpool Art and Artists in the Eighteenth Century", "Further Leaves from Turner's 'South Wales' Sketch-Book", "Two Early Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds", "An Additional Gheeraerts Illustration", and (truncated) "The Papers of the Society of Artists of Great Britain". Issued only to subscribers. (Inventory #: 13646)