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You are bidding on a BOUND EDWARDIAN ISSUE OF 'THE CONNOISSEUR' MAGAZINE


  • AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS


  • JANUARY – APRIL 1908

  • Vol XX

  • Dimensions: 11” x 9”

  • Pages: 292

  • Includes: 19 Full page Plates and Prints in Both Colour and Black and White

  • Also: Literally Hundreds of smaller photographs, plus full page photographs on all subjects in Contents


  • Contents

  • PLATES

  1. 'Portrait of a Servant With A Bust of Homer' by Rembrandt

  2. 'Portrait of Madame Huet' by Demarteau, After J. R. Huet (Colour)

  3. 'THE CHOICE' – (Colour)

  4. 'APPROACH OF CHRISTMAS' by James Pollard (Colour)

  5. 'The Fine Muletioners' by Raourt, 1775 (Colour)

  6. 'Portrait of the Toreador Pedro Romero' by Goya

  7. 'Mary Teresa, Wife of Sixteenth Earl of Shrewsbury” by L. Mansion (Colour)

  8. 'A WIFE – UNE FEMME MARIEE' Designed and engraved by J. R. Smith. London, Published Jan 1st 1791 by J. R. Smith, Ki8ng Str. Covent Garden

  9. 'BONAPART. PREMIER CONSUL' Painted and Engraved by C. F. G. Levachez (Colour)

  10. 'The Rev. Dewes Coke of Brookhill Hall, Derbyshire, Hannah, His Wife and Daniel Parker Croke, Esq., M.P. by Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) Circa 1773

  11. 'The Farmer's Shop' by Paul Potter, Royal Academy Winter Exhibitionb, from the Kann Collection

  12. 'Mary Isabella Duchess of Rutland' by Rev. M. W. Peters. From the Collection at Belvoir Castle

  13. 'A BLIND GIRL OF ROME' T. Gaugain Sculp. (Colour)

  14. 'PORTRAIT OF MADAME HUET' Engraved by Demarteau, After J. B. Huet (Colour)

  15. THE LIVERPOOL MAIL, NEAR ST. ALBANS' – Drawn by H. Alken, Engraved by R. Havell (Colour)

  16. 'PORTRAIT OF THE MARCHESA DURAZZO' by A van Dyck

  17. 'PORTRAIT OF A LADY' after Downman: (Colour)

  18. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN' by Boltraffio,

  19. 'NAPOLEON IN EGYPT' by Eduardo Detallle, K.C.V.O. (Colour)


  • ARTICLES Include (All are Illustrated)

  • Collections Visited: Mr Collis P Huntington's Collections

  • Pottery & Porcelain: 'Russian Porcelain by Lucy Cazalet

  • The City of Bath: Written and Illustrated by Leonard Willoughby

  • Engravings: Henry and James ward and Their Work by W. G. Menzies

  • Pictures: 'On an Unknown Portrait of Botticelli and some Dates by P. G. konody

  • Furniture: Litchfield's “History of Furniture”

  • In the Sale Room:

  • Pictures: 'The Recent Exhibition of Works of Art of the 18th Century at the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris by J. J. Foster

  • Pottery & Porcelain: 'Eighteenth Century Fine Stoneware' by W. Turner

  • Miscellaneous: 'Leaves from a Grandmother's Album' by Gwendoline Bellwe

  • Prints: 'Beauty in Typography, An English Petrarch Printed in the New Humanistic Style by the University Press of Cambridge, U.S.A. Massachussetts

  • Winchester Corporation Plate

  • Engravings: James McArdell and his Work by W. G. Menzies

  • The connoisseur Bookshelf

  • In the Sale Room

  • ROYAL WNCHESTER: “A Free City of Itself” Written and Illustrated by Leonard Willoughby

  • Pottery & Porcelain: 'Italian Majolica' by M. E. Steedman

  • Manuscripts and Autographs: 'Illustrated Autographs by A. W. Mackenzie

  • James and Caroline Watson and Their Work by W. G. Menzies

  • Lace: 'Brussels Lace' by M. Jourdain

  • In the Sale Room

  • Collections: The New Dublin Gallery of Modern Art bu P. G. Konody

  • Relics: An Exhibition of Women's Antique Ornaments in Rome' by Ettore Modigliani

  • Prints: 'Early English Lithographs and the Stage' by Augustus Moore

  • Armour: 'Some remarks on the Armoury of the Wallace Collection by Geo. F. Bruck

  • Pottery & Porcelain: 'Ancient Pharmacy Jars' by Henry Walker (Illustrations from the collection of Mr James Prior, Chemist, Stamford

  • Engravings: John Jones and his Work by W. G. Menzies

  • Manuscripts and Autographs: 'Peg Woffington's Letter by W. J. Lawrence

  • Lace: English Pillow Lace, Part I by M. Jourdain

The book has some light wear commensurate with age – Mainly in the form of some colour fading to the cover – Please see photos.

There are also some small tears (Approx ¾” from the bottom of some pages.
Apart from this it is in excellent condition with no rips, tears, writing or other obvious flaws



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