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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Year 1922. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> My aim is to present Hollar as an etcher and to focus interest on him by selecting for illustration a special and to Englishmen the most attractive section of his voluminous work. To a general survey of his life and work I have appended a detailed catalogue of all his etched views of London and Windsor including subject and portrait etchings which contain London backgrounds thus offering a contribution towards the much greater task of a complete revision of Parthey’s catalogue of 1853. The description of Hollar’s etching of the Tower of London with the Execution of the Earl of Strafford (No. 23 in my catalogue) as a “contemporary Dutch print” in Besant’s London in the Time of the Stuarts (1903 p. 39) is one instance among many to show that Hollar is by no means accurately known even by connoisseurs of London arch?ology and I hope that my catalogue will serve to clarify one of the chief sources of the study of London topography in the seventeenth century. I have not ventured on any general account of old London but have added in my catalogue a considerable number of topographical notes relating both to general plans and to buildings on which information is less readily accessible. I claim no originality in topographical research though in the case of some of the plans I have spent considerable time in sifting evidence which has led me in some cases to independent conclusions. (MP)