Title page of An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects, and where their several performances are to be seen by Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco.
Palomino de Castro y Velasco, Antonio, 1655-1726. An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects, and where their several performances are to be seen / translated from the Musaeum pictorium of Palomino Velasco. -- London : Printed for Sam. Harding..., 1739.
First English edition, possibly translated by Uvedale Tomkins Price (1685-1764). The note at the end of the Preface is of some interest as it demonstrates some of the problems of translations (and their printing): "N.B. The Readers is desired to excuse the Spanish Names being put with gn instead of an n with a Stroke over the Top of it, which in the Spanish Tongue is pronounced like gn, as in the Names Nigno and Nugnez, &c. the Printer having no such Type." Bookplates of John Robson, MD. 1865.
