[Printed item, with manuscript annotations.] A Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits. From Egbert the Great to the Present Time.

4to, [xiv] + 479 + [Appendix:] 56 + [Index:] [lxxx] pp. Uncut, in original quarter-binding of grey paper boards and green cloth spine, with chipped red paper label, gilt, 'CATALOGUE OF BRITISH PORTRAITS'. Internally sound and tight on aged paper, apart from detached half-title and flyleaf. In worn boards, with closed tears to hinges. Ownership inscription of 'F. Walker' on flyleaf, and armorial bookplate of Captain Neville Rodwell Wilkinson, Ulster King of Arms and Principal Herald of All Ireland, on front pastedown. Annotated throughout in a contemporary hand, making brief additions to entries and giving notes of prices fetched at auction (for example, 'at Kings 1 - 11. 6 | Gs. 2. 8. 0'. and 'W L with the Book of prints } 3: 3: 0 - | 2: 14: 0 Edward Brother to Edmd Kneeling'). Loosely inserted is a corrected typescript (possibly by Wilkinson), headed 'PREFACE: (Authors) [to a book on 'the glories of great palaces'?]' and written in an entertaining style, with reference 'the unscientific picture-lover, whose quiet waters of contemplation will be stirred by the squalls of controversy'.