Print collector's quarterly (12.1925)

the famous Chelsea Bun House, which was not in
Chelsea at all.
We have not mentioned the general and river views,
mostly in coloured aquatinta, as these, from their
popularity with collectors, are more familiar ; but a
lovely View of Westminster Bridge from Kings Arms
Stairs, Lambeth, by J. W. Edy, 1800, cannot be passed
over. We reproduce a coloured aquatint by R. Havell,
1817, in which the new Waterloo Bridge has prominence.
Westminster and Blackfriars Bridges are again the
principal objects in the charming pair of oval aquatints
from Valentine Green and F. Jukes, well known to
connoisseurs. The several river views by the diary-
keeping Academician, Farington, are of course here ;
in fact, no well-known print seems to be absent, and the
number of minor or less important prints is legion.
Such a collection as this, which has been so in-
adequately described, deserves, however, more atten-
tion from its custodians than so far they have been able
to afford. Library authorities know that a pile of
books is not a library ; the books must be classified,
displayed and catalogued. This great pile of prints is
at present a pile only. There is no display, no arrange-
ment, not even a proper catalogue.
It is fully realised that until the extra space and
expenditure can be provided to equip a properly fitted
print room, which is necessary to make these valuable
possessions freely and readily available to the public,
the “ Westminster Collection ” must remain but the raw
material for a real collection.

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