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Waagen (Dr.). Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain: being an account of more than forty collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, Mss., &c., &c. visited in 1854 and 1856, and now for the first time described, 4 volumes (including Supplement), London: John Murray 1854-1857, original cloth gilt, rubbed and some fraying and wear, particularly to first and last volumes, 8vo, together with [Patmore, Peter George], British Galleries of Art, 1st edition, London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824, contemporary cloth-backed plain boards, printed paper label to spine, soiled and some wear, 8vo, plus Passavant (M.). Tour of a German Artist in England, with notices of private galleries, and remarks on the state of art, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Saunders and Otley, 1836, engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume, half-titles present, bookplates of Captain Nevile Rodwell Wilkinson, dated 1904 and Michael Jaffé to front pastedowns, original boards with paper labels to spines, some wear and chipping to joints and edges, 8vo, and [Dallaway, James]. An Account of All the Pictures exhibited in the rooms of the British Institution, from 1813 to 1823, belonging to the nobility and gentry of England: with remarks, critical and explanatory, 1st edition, London: Priestley and Weale, 1824, marbled edges and endpapers, contemporary full calf, with gilt oval coat of arms of George Agar Ellis to centre of each cover, rubbed and some wear with spine partly detached along upper joint, 8vo, plus another copy of the Dallaway's Account of All the Pictures..., 1824 and W. Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French Revolution, 2 volumes, London: R. Ackermann, 1824 (Qty: 11) Ex libris Michael Jaffé (1923–1997).