Historical Portraits: Richard II to Henry Wriothesley 1400-1600.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1909. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. xxiii, 199pp. Numerous full-page plates. Very good. Tight and internally fine, with minor binding edgewear. Item #51248
Attractive first edition of the first volume (only) of this four-volume set (whose final volume brings it up through 1850). A superb assemblage of oil portraits as chosen by Emery Walker, each with biographical sketch, of English royalty and nobility. Laid in is a 4pp promotional leaflet for this volume and printed notices for two additional Clarendon Press titles. Bold ownership signature and date (June 25, 1909) on front flyleaf of Victor Hugo Paltsits (1867-1952), famed Lenox Library librarian and prolific bibliographer.
Price: $95.00