A History of Miniature Art.  With Notes on Collectors and Collections  London: Macmillan and Co., 1887.

First edition.

Folio (340 x 238 mm). [iv], xvi, 285, [7] pp. With frontispiece, 22 plates, and decorated chapter initials, head- and tail-pieces, many historiated. Title printed in red and black. Bound in half red levant morocco over red cloth, spine tooled and ruled in gilt in compartments, two gilt-lettered brown morocco spine labels, five raised bands. Some rubbing, minor edge-wear, and light soiling to extremities, slight loss to one spine label, some offsetting and faint soiling to endpapers, one gutter over-opened, both hinges starting but sound. A very good copy.

First edition of this landmark work, the first comprehensive book on portrait miniatures and their history.

John Lumsden Propert (1834–1902), was a prominent British physician, artist, and collector. His was one of the most renowned private collections of miniatures in the world, and today pieces from his collection can be found in museums such as the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Huntington Library.

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Power, D'A. “Propert, John Lumsden (1834–1902).” Rev. V. Remington. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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