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BRYAN, Michael

A Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers

London
for Carpenter and Son, J. Booker and Whittingham and Arliss
1816

€80 - €120

2 vols. in-4to, xlix-709-[1] pp ; 822-[1] pp, with a portrait of Michael Bryan as frontispiece. With 5 plates (monograms). Foxing. Contemporary full calf binding, with blindstamped monograms (devise: no mas cierto y deleitoso amigo que el buen libro), marbled edges and endpapers. Bookplate with devise: ""Alla vayas prestado donde vuelvas mejorado

Michael Bryan was an English art historian, art dealer and connoisseur. He was involved in the purchase and resale of the great French Orleans Collection of art, selling it on to a British syndicate, and owned a fashionable art gallery in Savile Row, London. Provenance: Charles Morse

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