Anecdotes of Painting in England; with some Account of the Principal Artists; and Incidental Notes on other Arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; and now digested and published from his original MSS. by Mr. Horace Walpole [with] A Catalogue of Engravers, who have been born, or resided in England; digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the Mss. of Mr. George Vertue; to which is added An Account of the life and works of the latter.

n.p. [Twickenham]: Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, 1762 [Volumes I & II]; Strawberry-Hill: Printed in the Year 1763 [Volume III]; Strawberry-Hill: printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1771 [Volume iV]; Strawberry-Hill: Printed in the Year 1763 [Volume V].. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. Five volumes. I: xiii, [i], 168, [xxii]pp. - Appendix (xiv), Index (vi), Errata (i)] [1762]; II: [ii], 158, [lviii]pp. - Appendix (li), Index (vii), Errata - (i) [1762]; III: [ii], 155, [xi]pp. - Appendix (iii), Index (viii) and final leaf, often absent (per Hazen) and usually bound in volume II of advertisements of Vertue's catalogues of pictures [1763]; IV: x, 151, [ix] - Errata (i), Appendix (ii), Index (vi), Additional Lives to the First Edition of Anecdotes of Painting in England - 12pp., Additional Lives to the First Edition of Anecdotes of Painting in England - 4pp.; V: [iv], 128, 14 (Life of Vertue), 20 (List of Vertue's works), [viii] - Index (viii), [ii]pp - Final Advertisement Leaf [1763]. First edition, first impression of each volume printed in an edition of three hundred copies (per Hazen). In this copy of volume one, both p. 83 and 84 are numbered on the right, and the running head on p.127 is in the uncorrected state. Farmer departed from Walpole's service in the midst of the preparation of the second volume, and his name does not appear in the subsequent imprints. A second edition was soon called for, and when the fourth volume to ANECDOTES... was published in 1771, Walpole had its predecessors reprinted again. Contemporary calf, repaired. All edges gilt. With 110 full-page copper-engraved plates, plus two (of four) in the Additional Lives by Bannerman. I: 16 plates; II; 25 plates; III: 37 plates; IV: 23 plates, plus 2 in the Additional Lives; V: 9 plates. Hazen (Walpole) 14; Hazen (Strawberry Hill) 10; Lowndes 2819 (calling the plates of this edition "Infinitely superior"); Gibson's Library, p. 280; Rothschild 2487.