Catalogue & Supplement: 5,800 Named and Dated Silhouette Portraits by August Edouart 1789-1961

Bath: Harding & Curtis, n/d. Softcover. VG- (clean, tight interior with no damage but with 4 small tears to covers).. Orange paper wraps with black lettering. 56 pp. with images inside both covers. Catalogue of silhouette portraits by Edouart. They were very popular at one time. A few are pictured: Sir Walter Scott, Scott and his terrier (Spice), Mrs. William Keith, Bella Lucas, a family group, Edouard and his two daughters, J. Liston, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster (all in full figure) and miniature bust portraits on snuff boxes and in frames. Includes a brief essay, The History of a Great Collection, about Edouart, who was the silhouettist to the Duke of Gloucester and to the Royal Family of France.