Bücher von Seymour De Ricci

Excerpt from Report on the Paintings of the T. B. Walker Art Collections The seeker of the beautiful, whose knowledge of art is based in the main upon the great treasures of European Galleries would, I am sure, receive many startling surprises upon his first visit to the Walker Galleries in Minneapolis; a private gallery generously opened to the public daily, yet is far from being as well known as the great museums on this Continent and abroad, whose names are constantly on people's lips. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Based on The Sandars Lectures for 1929-1930, this 1930 volume provides a historical study of English book and manuscript collectors from 1530 until the time of publication. The main concentration of the text is on marks of ownership made by various collectors on volumes in their respective collections.