PROPERTY FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE DAVID SCRASE, PART I (LOTS 135-144)

A quantity of art books, to include:

The Wallace Collection. Catalogue of Pictures (vols. I-IV)

The Treasure Houses of Britain

de Hamel, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

Wine, The Seventeeth century. French Paintings (National Gallery Catalogues)

The Renaissance in France

Catalogue of the Dutch School (1600-1900) (vols. I-II)

Il Viaggio a Compostela di Cosimo de Medici

Dulwich Picture Gallery. Complete Illustated Catalogue

Renowned scholar and curator, David Scrase was Honorary Keeper of Italian Drawings, Honorary Marlay Group member, former Assistant Keeper, then Keeper, of Paintings, Drawings and Prints and Assistant Director (Collections) of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. An internationally acclaimed authority on Italian art, particularly drawings, Scrase published extensively and on a variety of subjects. His generosity was well known through the numerous thoughtful donations to the Fitzwilliam and other museums he made throughout his lifetime.