Bryan (Michael)

A Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, 2 vol., wood engraved author’s portrait, 5 plates, errata leaves at rear, light browning, heavier to x3-4, y1-3 in vol. 1, some offsetting, intermittent spotting or foxing, especially in vol. 1, contemporary blue polished calf, boards ruled in gilt with blind tooled pieces, gilt floral motifs to spine, gilt fillets, marbled endpapers and fore-edges, extremities and spine rubbed, upper hinge in vol. 2 cracked, 4to, Carpenter & Son, London, 1816.

*** Standard reference text throughout the 19th century, last republished in 1920.