first edition Hardcover
1912 · London
by Hesseltine, J.P.
London: Reproduced By The Autotype Company, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Gilt lettered vellum spine and gray boards. Very good. 26 x 19.5 cm. With presentation slip signed by Hesseltine, privately printed by the Chiswick Press. Thirty one plates (tissue guards) with title, size and medium and collector. J.P. Heseltine was both a distinguished etcher and a great art collector, appointed a trustee of the National Gallery, London serving from 1893-1929. Heseltine sold the most valuable part of his collection (approximately 600 Old Master drawings including his precious Rembrandt drawings) by private treaty sale in October 1912 to P. & D. Colnagi for a reputed £150,000. (Inventory #: 22252)