Author: Blunt, Anthony and Cooke, Hereward Lester.
Title: THE ROMAN DRAWINGS of the XVII & XVIII Centuries. In the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle.
Description: Phaidon Press, 1960. 1st Ed. 4to. 197pp. 66 b/w. plates, 119 figures. Light marginal brown stain with resultant light wrinkling to tail of leaves, original gilt lettered red cloth, spine sl. sunned. ¶ Inscribed to front free end paper ‘To Mum from Anthony Christmas 1960’. Anthony was his mother's favourite, her 'Benjamin'. Years later she would tell people how as a very small boy he had been solicitous of her, always trying to carry her heavy luggage, and performing other small feats of gallantry. She coddled him. ‘My mother was very close to Anthony,’ Christopher Blunt later told an interviewer. ‘He was slightly delicate as a child but my mother exaggerated this and would give him tonics all the time.’

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