WARD (THOMAS HUMPHREY) ENGLISH ART IN THE PUBLIC GALLERIES OF LONDON with more than one hundred photogravures by Goupil & Co, published under the direction of TH Ward in London and Paris by Boussard, Valadon and Co., 1888, bound in red leather with tooled and gilt floral decoration and green leather title panel to the spine Provenance Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918) the Entrance Hall, Halton House, Buckinghamshire Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942) Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009) The Trustees of Exbury House Literature Rothschild Archive, London, Manuscript: 000/174/C/3, Christie, Manson & Woods Probate Valuation of 'The Estate of Alfred C. de Rothschild, Esq. C.V.O. Deceased, Halton House Tring'. 1918. Listed as 'English Art in the London Galleries, £12.0.0'

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