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A Collection of 16 Proof Plates mostly from Bartlett's American Scenery.

Best.-Nr. 55949London: George Virtue 1839 - 1842. Sixteen plates by Bartlett engraved by Cousen Brandard Willmore others. These are proofs on India paper colored on white stock measuring 11 x 8.5 inches mounted on larger sheets of different stock which measure 17 x 11.5 inches. These are proofs before letters bearing only the artist and engraver names in the lower margin but no titles. the larger sheets are uniformly tanned with occasional foxing and some stains to margins a few with short tears in margins and wear to edges. Images are almost all in fine clean condition and all are colored. Titles are provided in a miniscule hand at the very bottom corner of the larger sheets and again on the rear sometimes with an associated page number. Most are of New York State. The titles and page numbers as given: Little Falls on the Mohawk / Caldwell: Lake George 69 / Rapids Above Niagara Falls 16 / View on the Susquehanna above Owego / Valley of the Shenandoah from Jeffersons Rock 108 / Mount Tom on the Connecticut River / Chapel of Our Lady: Cold Spring / Mount Jefferson from Mount Washington / The Narrows: Lake George / Palisades of the Hudson 14 / Undercliff near Cold Spring on back: Undercliff on Hudson / Gothic Church New Haven / View on the Susquehanna at Liverpool / Highlands: Lake George / Crow's Nest on the Hudson 24 some creases across image / The Walls of Southampton crease to upper corner just touching image. Sabin: Bibliotheca Americana pg. 502: "Some proof copies of the plates were printed in folio without letter-press." The catalogue of the collection of Mr. John Allan from May 2 1864 contains this lot: "3490. BARTLETTS AMERICAN SCENERY. A Collection of 81 Proof Plates. Folio." A number of the plates in this group of 16 have the number "3490" in pencil in the lower right corner suggesting that they are from Allan's collection auctioned in 1864. 16 plates attractively colored for the lot: London: George Virtue, [1839 - 1842]. unknown

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Bartlett, W H [William Henry Bartlett]Biblio.com

The Pilgrim Fathers; or The Founders of New England in the Reign of James the First.

1854Best.-Nr. 001048London: Arthur Hall Virtue & Co. 1854. SECOND EDITION revised. 28 engravings on steel vignettes and 31 woodcuts. Full purple cloth with decorative gilt lettering and designs on front cover and spine. Illustrated frontispiece with protective tissue. One of Bartlett's great works. Small quarter inch split to to the top of the spine overall VERY GOOD PLUS condition. Gift inscription on front free endpage. Would make a good gift item for someone who can't afford the first edition. William Henry Bartlett born March 26 1809 died September 13 1854 was a British artist best known for his numerous steel engravings. Bartlett was born in Kentish Town London in 1809. He was apprenticed to John Britton 1771-1857 and became one of the foremost illustrators of topography of his generation. He travelled throughout Britain and in the mid and late 1840s he travelled extensively in the Balkans and the Middle East. He made four visits to the United States between 1835 and 1852. In 1835 Bartlett first visited the United States in order to draw the buildings towns and scenery of the northeastern states. The finely detailed steel engravings Bartlett produced were published uncolored with a text by Nathaniel Parker Willis as American Scenery; or Land Lake and River: Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature. American Scenery was published by George Virtue in London in 30 monthly installments from 1837 to 1839. Bound editions of the work were published from 1840 onward. His impressions of Canada were collected in Canadian Scenery in 1842. Bartlett made sepia wash drawings the exact size to be engraved. His engraved views were widely copied by artists but no signed oil painting by his hand is known. Engravings based on Bartlett's views were later used in his posthumous History of the United States of North America continued by B. B. Woodward and published around 1856. William Henry Bartlett died of fever on board of a French ship off the coast of Malta returning from his last trip to Israel in 1854. Bartletts primary concern was to render "lively impressions of actual sights" as he wrote in the preface to The Nile Boat London 1849. Many views contain some ruin or element of the past including many scenes of churches abbeys cathedrals and castles and Nathaniel Parker Willis described Bartlett's talent thus: "Bartlett could select his point of view so as to bring prominently into his sketch the castle or the cathedral which history or antiquity had allowed". UncleAndy. Second Edition. Full Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by William Henry Bartlett. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. Hardcover

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