Grosvenor Notes was published annually from 1877-1890 and comprises of 14 volumes. Volume numbers were not introduced until 1880, which recorded as No. III, indicating that the first edition, 1877, is not included in the numbering sequence. The final edition, the 14th, 1890, is therefore issued as Volume XIII. The 1889 and 1890 editions were titled: The Grosvenor Gallery Illustrated Catalogue of the Summer Exhibition
Series Title
Grosvenor Notes / Henry Blackburn (Ed).: No 12. 1889
General Note
Bound with: Grosvenor Notes 1888: an illustrated catalogue, with facsimiles of sketches by the artists / edited by Henry Blackburn (1888), and The Grosvenor Gallery 1890 ; an illustrated catalogue of the Summer Exhibition / with notes by Henry Blackburn (1890).
The “Private View” was held on Tuesday, April 30th, and the Exhibition opened to the public on Wednesday, May 1st for three months.’ [Verso of title page].
The Grosvenor Gallery was an art gallery in London founded in 1877 by Sir Coutts Lindsay and his wife the artist, novelist and poet Caroline Blanche Elizabeth Fitzroy. It closed in 1890. Grosvenor Notes was published annually from 1877-1890.
References
Newall, C. (1995) The Grosvenor Gallery exhibitions: change and continuity in the Victorian art world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Casteras, S.P. and Denney, C. (eds.) (1996) The Grosvenor Gallery: a palace of art in Victorian England. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Center for British Art.
Provenance
The front pastedown carries the bookplate of `Harris Free Public Reference Library, Preston.'
Binding Note
Brown half-bound leather with spine lettered in gilt: `Grosvenor Notes. 1888.' [Bound with two others].