GIRTIN, James (John). Seventy-Five Portraits of Celebrated Painters, from Authentic Originals. Printed by J. M'Creery, Black-House Court. 1817
Frontispiece, titlepage, contents leaf, 75 etched portraits (including front.) printed in black on sepia ground. 4to. Some offsetting from plates on to blank versos, some sl. marginal fngermarking; small tear to lower gutter margin of frontispiece. Contemporary half black straight grain morocco, gilt decorated spine, marbled boards; sl. wear to board edges & corners. Later armorial bookplate of H.S.P. Winterbotham.
¶Copac records copies at the BL, Oxford & National Portrait Gallery only; the sole edition. Engraver, etcher and printer; erroneously called James Girtin on the titlepage, 1773 - post 1820. He was brother of Thomas, whose series of Parisian views he published. His stock was burnt in a fire in Broad Street, November 1816. No trace after 1820. (Ref: British Museum.) The portraits include Michelangelo Buonarroti, Albrecht Durer, Hans Holbein, Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Sir Anthony Vandyck, &c.
Stock #77427
£220
46, Great Russell Street - (opp. British Museum) - Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3PA
