John Chamberlaine, publisher | Imitations of original drawings by Hans Holbein, London, 1792[-98], contemporary russia

John Chamberlaine, publisher

Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, in the Collection of His Majesty, for the Portraits of Illustrious Persons of the Court of Henry VIII. London: John Chamberlaine, 1792[-1798]

Folio (549 x 406mm.), 91 stipple-engraved plates on paper printed in colour by F. Bartolozzi, C. Metz and C. Knight after Holbein (the usual 82 plates, extra-illustrated with a portrait of Henry VIII and 8 portraits of the French court), many on pink paper and/or mounted, contemporary russia, spine with raised bands in eight compartments, gilt edges, green endpapers, some foxing, some plates detached from mounts, extremities slightly rubbed

A deluxe issue was published with the plates engraved on pink card.

LITERATURE

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