Lot 08172

MICHAELIS Adolf, “Ancient Marbles in Great Britain”, University Press, Cambridge, 1882. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. xxvi, [2], 834, [1]. Complete including 11 full-page plates, one double-page and some in text.

A very important work of Michaelis, based on his extensive survey to the collections of classical sculpture conserved in English country houses. This extensive account presents the results of a century and a half of British collecting/acquisitions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Rebacked keeping parts of the original spine and the original covers. Light spotting on first & last sheets.