Seen top right is the ex-Bute copy of the very rare 1757,
first edition of Pietro Santo Bartoli's Recueil de Peintures
Antiques... One of just 30 copies printed for private distribution
by the work's patron, the Comte de Caylus, it is one in which the
engraved plates after Bartoli's watercolours of antique paintings
discovered in Rome in the second part of the 18th century are
themselves all beautifully finished in watercolours. This copy was
armorially bound for John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute in red morocco
gilt in the atelier of Antoine-Michel Padeloup. It sold at £28,000
to a collector.
Seen bottom right are a 1763 Graduale and Psalterium (1763 Lyons
and 1776 Paris editions, respectively) in uniform red morocco gilt
dentelle bindings commissioned by Lord Arundell from a Parisian
atelier for the inauguration in November 1776 of a new family
chapel at Wardour Castle in Wiltshire - the first Catholic place of
worship to be built in England following the Reformation. The
bindery used by Lord Arundell is unknown but the workmanship is
certainly the equal of that produced by Derome and this lot sold at
£28,000 (Quaritch).
