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Hill’s Catalogue of the Dreyfus Renaissance Medals

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Hill’s Catalogue of the Dreyfus Renaissance Medals
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Hill, George Francis. THE GUSTAVE DREYFUS COLLECTION. I: RENAISSANCE MEDALS. Oxford: At the University Press, 1931. Folio [40 by 30 cm], original blue cloth, gilt. xii, 311, (1) pages; 141 superb plates depicting 667 medals. Rear hinges cracked; discoloration to cloth at head of spine; very good or better. The rare original edition of this important, beautifully produced work. The collection now resides in the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art. George Hill, in his preface, notes that “keenly as Gustave Dreyfus appreciated all his beautiful things, he had a particularly soft place in his heart for the Italian medals... His was perhaps the finest collection that has ever been in the hands of a private collector--the ‘perhaps’ might be omitted but that it is difficult to range the great collections in a true perspective.” A printed notice on the verso of the half-title reveals that “The collection of Monsieur Gustave Dreyfus was acquired in 1930 from his executors by Sir Joseph Duveen Bart.” [Online description truncated: see printed or PDF catalogue for full description.]