Beschreibung:

Worlidge (Thomas). A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems; most of them in the possession of the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom; etched after the Manner of Rembrandt, London: Printed by Dryden Leach for M. Worlidge & M. Wicksteed, 1768, etched portrait frontispiece, 182 etched plates, subscribers list, occasional spotting, armorial bookplate of Charles George Milnes Gaskell, pictorial book ticket of 'A. P. M. H.', contemporary calf gilt, rebacked, 3 corners repaired, covers with inked and blind-tooled panels within wide gilt-tooled borders, 4to, together with: Ogle (George), Gemmae Antiquae Caelatae: or, a Collection of Gems..., 2nd edition, 1741, 50 engraved plates, blind stamped name to upper corner of title, one text leaf with corner repair, last few leaves with pale dampstain to lower blank corner, pictorial book ticket of .'A. P. M. H.', contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed with some dampstaining, extremities a trifle worn, joints partly cracked, front cover lightly bowed, 4to, plus: [Dagley, Richard], Gems, Selected from the Antique, with Illustrations, London: John Murray 1804, bound from the parts, printed wrappers from part II (front & rear) and part I (rear only) bound in at front, vignette to title, 20 engraved plates, spotting and some toning, armorial bookplate of John T. Beer, pictorial book ticket of .'A. P. M. H.', front hinge cracked, contemporary quarter mottled calf, rubbed with some wear to extremities, 4to (Qty: 3)