Lionel Cust (ed) — The National Portrait Gallery
London, Cassell and Company Ltd, 1901. Leather. A smartly-bound limited edition record of the portraits collected in the National Portrait Gallery, edited by Lionel Cust. Illustrated throughout with many black-and-white portraits. Limited to 750 copies, of which this is number 121. Sir Lionel Henry Cust (25 January 1859 Â 12 October 1929) was a British art historian, courtier and museum director. Bound by Hatchards, with binder's ink stamp to front endpaper. Complete in two volumes. In half-morocco bindings. Externally, smart, with just some rubbing to the extremities and a few marks. One joint starting. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .