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Catalogue of the valuable and important collection of engraved gems, camei and intagli : comprising some of the finest examples of the glyptic art, with many other interesting specimens of gem engraving of all countries and times and includ

"Many of the gems have been described and figured in the principal treatises on this subject, such as those of Gori, Bracci, Story-​Maskelyne, King and Furtwängler (in his Antike Gemmen). Most of the principal private gatherings of the past are represented in this Collection, at least by one or two examples -- amongst others the Arundel, Bessborough adn Marlborough Cabinets, and those of Mariette, Count Caylus, Meyer, Hertz, Uzielli, Braon Roger de Sivry, Castellani, Alfred Morrison, Furtwängler and Forman. Many of the other gems are previously undescribed, and in several cases come direct from Greece and the East."--p. [4] "Seventy of the Greek camei and intagli were shown at the Burlington Fine Art Club's Greek Exhibition in 1903, and are figured and described in the Illustrated Catalog 1904, from which the descriptions of these items have been abbreviated, a reference being given thus (B.F.A.C.)."-​-​p. [4] Noted in Marlborough entry: Gemology by J. Sinkankas, entry no. 4213. "Exquisite plates."-​-​Gemology by J. Sinkankas, entry no. 1303.

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