‎Vertu‎

‎VIRTUE/REEVES‎

‎COMMENT NOURRIR VOTRE INTUITION‎

‎EXERGUE‎

‎LIVRE A L’ETAT DE NEUF. EXPEDIE SOUS 3 JOURS OUVRES. NUMERO DE SUIVI COMMUNIQUE AVANT ENVOI, EMBALLAGE RENFORCE. EAN:9782361883836‎

Riferimento per il libraio : SLIVCN-9782361883836

‎Wilkie Sir David; George Virtue; Richard Clay; Francis Holl‎

‎The Wilkie Gallery. A Selection of the Best Pictures of the Late Sir David Wilkie Including His Spanish and Oriental Sketches with Biographical and Critical‎

‎London; Nd ca.1850: George Virtue. Folio. Frontispiece portrait of David Wilkie engraved by Francis Holl after a painting by Thomas Phillips. Engraved vignette title page and regular title page. 4 unnumbered pages 93 pages 80 unnumbered pages and 67 unnumbered leaves of plates each with overlay sheets. The Wilkie Gallery with biographical and critical notices. This very large volume is embellished not only with the best pictures of Sir David Wilkie who had passed away in 1841 but the remarkable engravings of Francis Holl 1815-1884 who became a successful and fashionable engraver working for book as well as print publishers. He worked for twenty-five years engraving the queen's pictures and received royal commissions to execute private plates of portraits of the royal family. He engraved many plates after works by famous artists of the day. Between 1856 and 1883 he exhibited twenty engravings at the Royal Academy and was finally elected an associate engraver in 1883. Virtue and company made him the major artist for their finest books. Besides the full page 67 steel engravings they are accompanied with biographical and critical notices. His work on the near East and Turkey are included in this volume. Bound in publisher's full brown morocco decorated in blind central gilt lettering and design raised bands spine decorated in blind title gilt marbled endpapers all edges gilt wear to spine ends some rubbing or staining to binding upper joint with early repair some marginal light scattered foxing not extending to plates except possibly one or two small spots. A very good copy with extraordinary plates. George Virtue unknown books‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 029018

‎Willis Nathaniel Parker; WH. Bartlett; George Virtue W. H.‎

‎American Scenery; or Land Lake and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature with Hand Colored plates‎

‎London: Virtue 1840. Quarto. Volume I: Portrait frontispiece hand-colored vignette title page and regular title page ix 140 pages 66 leaves of plates one map. Volume II: hand-colored vignette title page and regular title page iv. 106 pages 52 leaves of plates. The map plate in volume I was done by W. Hughes. All 119 plates are present. In 1836 William Henry Bartlett was sent to America to begin making engravings of the major sites in the United States. Virtue had also commissioned Nathaniel Willis to make letterpress descriptions of each image. Thomas Dougherty drew two of the originals while the rest were done with remarkable precision by Bartlett. While Willis is first on the title page it is Bartlett's fine work that has made this the finest 19th century work on America from the artists' perspective. the plates view the Eastern U.S. before the full force of the Industrial Revolution changed the face of the eastern landscape forever. Bound in a very fine rich red 3/4 red morocco spines with bands and decorative panels with a matching slipcase. Abbey Travel in aquatint and lithography 651; Blanck BAL 22755; Sabin 3784. Virtue unknown books‎

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