Vol. V is second edition.
Contents: v. 1. The early painters, William Hogarth, Richard Wilson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough -- v. 11. Benjamin West, James Barry, William Blake, John Opie, George Morland, Edward Bird, Henry Fuseli -- v. 111. Grinling Gibbons, Caius Gabriel Cibber, Louis Francis Roubilino, Joseph Wilton, Thomas Banks, Joseph Nollekens, John Bacon, Anne Damer, John Flaxman -- v. IV. William of Wykeham, Inigo Jones, Christoper Wren, John Vanburgh, James Gibbs, William Kent, Earl of Burlington, William Chambers -- v. V. George Jameson, Allan Ramsay, George Rommey, Alexander Runciman, John Singleton Copley, John Mortimer Henry Raeburn, John Hopper, William Owen, George Harlow, Richard Parkes Bonington.
Provenance: Vols. I,II,III,V carry the ownership inscription of P.H. Throsby / June 1891 / Throsby Park. [Patrick Hill Throsby (1839-1894) inherited Throsby Park upon the death of his mother in 1891]
Vol IV carries the ownership inscription P.H. Throsby in a different hand.
