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(ENGRAVINGS). FOUR VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS WITH FINE ENGRAVINGS: HAYTER, JOHNBiblio.com

THE COURT ALBUM. and HEATH CHARLES. THE WAVERLEY GALLERY. and HEATH'S PICTURESQUE ANNUAL FOR 1832: RITCHIE LEITCH. TRAVELLING SKETCHES IN THE NORTH OF ITALY THE TYROL AND ON THE RHINE. and THE TOURIST IN WALES

1832réf. ST15199b-eLondon 1832-58. Quartos. 26 leaves; 40 leaves of text 1 leaf ads; iv 4 256 pp. errata slip; 2 p.l. 192 pp. Four separately published works. Court Album in blue publisher's cloth decorated in gilt and blind; "Waverley Gallery" in green half morocco over green cloth raised bands spine gilt in compartments with central fleuron; "Heath's Picturesque Annual" in publisher's red morocco decorated in gilt and blind; "Tourist in Wales" in half calf over purple buckram raised bands spine panels with gilt floral sprig at center. Court Album with 14 engraved portraits of female aristocrats; "Waverley Gallery" with 36 engravings of the principal female characters in Sir Walter Scott's romances; "Heath's Picturesque Annual" with extra engraved title page and 26 engravings by Ritchie after drawings by Clarkson Stanfield; "Tourist in Wales" with extra engraved title page and 49 engravings of views. ◆Bindings with minor imperfections but all solid and pleasing; occasional mild offsetting or minor marginal foxing a couple of short marginal tears to text leaves bur excellent copies internally the text clean and fresh the plates bright with fine impressions. These are appealing examples of the illustrated works that were so popular in the Victorian era providing readers with glimpses of the nobility images of their favorite literary characters and the opportunity to enjoy dramatic scenery from the comfort of their drawing rooms. The first two works here contain portraits of beautiful women both real society belles and heroines of bestselling romances. The latter two transport the armchair traveller to the wilds of Wales to the Austrian and Italian Alps and to the Rhine River. Although in black and white the engravings are so detailed and finely executed particularly in the use of shadow and light that both portraits and landscapes come to life. In the days before photography--much less streaming videos--books like these brought beauty and imagination into everyday lives.

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · États-Unis988,00 $US≈ 880,96 €

GOETHE - Moritz Retzsh EngravingsBiblio.com

FAUST - Rare Bound Set - without any text

1826réf. ABE-90785021091826 Faust was Goethe's most celebrated creation with international editions in his lifetime and subsequently in films and books across the world with translations in most languages. This is a complete set of the 26 engravings Moritz Retzsh produced as an illustration of Goethe's text; the book has no words in it not even a publisher or date. What it does have is a fabulous set of the original plate pulls complete with plate marks. Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch was a German painter draughtsman and etcher; much celebrated in his day. This is in a way a fine example of what would now called a graphic novel. The 26 etched pictures tell the story and words are not needed. In Germany there were many such books without words and this one in particular influenced the English Pre Raphaelites. This volume is in its original binding with a very fragile leather spine which turns around to the original marbled cover boards which are also in a fragile state. There is no title page or date and no publishing house is mentioned. The corners are leather also and the spine has five subtly raised bands and no title. A much poorer copy of this was featured in the exhibition of Pre Raphaelites at Tate Britain. My copy is considerably better but it is by no means a fine one. It has been used and looked at probably a great deal over the last 200 years or so. The leather is very worn the marbled cover boards are patinated and there is a mixture of hand written names and an inscription on the front end paper. It is very rare in any state at all because it was easily broken up so the plates could be framed. This is I must stress a complete bound full set and as such it is very rare indeed. The earlier of the two dated inscriptions states 1826; but it cannot be viewed as an accurate issue date. An edition exists which has a German title page and text but this is not one of those. It's a bit of a mystery. The exhibited copy in the Tate exhibition was inspected by me I knew one of the curators and it was also without any text. International Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. hardcover

the booksniffer · Royaume-Uni800,00 £GB≈ 952,06 €

Geoffrey Gambado [Henry Bunbury, Francis Grose], Thomas Rowlandson engravingsBiblio.com

An Academy for Grown Horsemen with Annals of Horsemanship

1809réf. Flo540Very good copy of this classic of equestrian humour First edition with the improved Thomas Rowlandson engravings of this popular book that went through many editions Complete copy with 29 handcoloured copperplates engraved by Rowlandson after designs by Henry Bunbury An Academy for Grown Horsemen; containing the Completest Instructions for Walking Trotting Cantering Galloping Strumbling and Tumbling with Annals of Horsemanship: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments and Experimental Accidents both Successful and Unsuccessful Communicated by Various Correspondents. The text has been attributed to the artist Henry Bunbury and Francis Grose the antiquarian and compiler of a Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. In the 19th century the humorous text was ascribed to Grose in Catalogue of the library of the late Sir Francis Feeling 1836 John Bohn's Catalogue of English Books 1843 Samuel Halkett's Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain 1882 D.C. Sapp's The Honey Jar 1898 etc. John C. Riely however in The Age of Horace Walpole in Caricature 1973 claims that Grose only contributed the introduction. Henry William Bunbury 1750-1811 "drew chiefly in pencil or black and red chalk; but although he seems to have used the needle he was never successful as an etcher and his designs were generally reproduced by engravers mostly in stipple or dot. The three works by which he is best known belong to 1787: A Long Minuet The Propagation of a Lie and the volume of equestrian misadventures called An Academy for Grown Horsemen by Geoffrey Gambado. In 1791 appeared the Annals of Horsemanship a kind of sequel to the Academy for Grown Horseman." D.N.B. His other published works include Angelica Kauffman's Angelica's Ladies Library 1794 Bunbury's Illustrations of Shakspear engraved by Bartolozzi 1796 Tales of the Devil 1801 etc. Full red morocco leather binding by Root and Son spine with five raised bands gilt title and tooling neatly rebacked at some time with original spine relaid marble endpaper TEG book block solid. Interior very clean all plates under tissue guards copperplates with vivid hand-colour. "Capt. Grose" in ink in parentheses next to author's name Gambado on the front title page. Engraved bookplate of Cortlandt Field Bishop American pioneer aviator balloonist autoist traveller and book collector on front endpaper. Vernor, Hood and Sharpe hardcover

Florilegius · Japon1 250,00 $US≈ 1 114,58 €

Geoffrey Gambado [Henry Bunbury, Francis Grose], Thomas Rowlandson engravingsBiblio.com

An Academy for Grown Horsemen with Annals of Horsemanship

1809réf. Flo542Near fine copy of this classic of equestrian humour First edition with the improved Thomas Rowlandson engravings of this popular book that went through many editions Complete copy with 29 handcoloured copperplates engraved by Rowlandson after designs by Henry Bunbury An Academy for Grown Horsemen; containing the Completest Instructions for Walking Trotting Cantering Galloping Strumbling and Tumbling with Annals of Horsemanship: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments and Experimental Accidents both Successful and Unsuccessful Communicated by Various Correspondents. The text has been attributed to the artist Henry Bunbury and Francis Grose the antiquarian and compiler of a Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. In the 19th century the humorous text was ascribed to Grose in Catalogue of the library of the late Sir Francis Feeling 1836 John Bohn's Catalogue of English Books 1843 Samuel Halkett's Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain 1882 D.C. Sapp's The Honey Jar 1898 etc. John C. Riely however in The Age of Horace Walpole in Caricature 1973 claims that Grose only contributed the introduction. Henry William Bunbury 1750-1811 "drew chiefly in pencil or black and red chalk; but although he seems to have used the needle he was never successful as an etcher and his designs were generally reproduced by engravers mostly in stipple or dot. The three works by which he is best known belong to 1787: A Long Minuet The Propagation of a Lie and the volume of equestrian misadventures called An Academy for Grown Horsemen by Geoffrey Gambado. In 1791 appeared the Annals of Horsemanship a kind of sequel to the Academy for Grown Horseman." D.N.B. His other published works include Angelica Kauffman's Angelica's Ladies Library 1794 Bunbury's Illustrations of Shakspear engraved by Bartolozzi 1796 Tales of the Devil 1801 etc. Full tree-calf leather binding by Myers and Co 80 New Bond Street London rebacked with mottled spine with gilt title boards a little dry and rubbed new endpapers book block solid. Interior very clean all plates under tissue guards copperplates with vivid and delicate hand-colour. One text page 124 with repaired 3cm tear and paper fault that has caused a printing error with no loss to text. Vernor, Hood and Sharpe hardcover

Florilegius · Japon1 500,00 $US≈ 1 337,49 €

Hamilton Sir William; [Antiquities; Art Prints]Biblio.com

An Original Hand-Coloured Aquatint Engraving From SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON'S Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman Antiquities.

1766réf. 29450Naples 1766-1776. A single aquatint plate drawn and engraved after the original pieces in the Hamilton collection. An aquatint printed as a black background over terracotta with highlighting in light gray/white. The image shows three figures one a warrior draped in animal skins carries a club stands before another figure with a thin staff who stands next to a flaming brazier. A third figure with a shorter staff walks way from the scene. Printed on a single folio sheet measuring larger than 18" x 12" the image approximately 12" X 7.75" now very handsomely presented in cream mounting approximately 24 by 18 inches with ornate gilt framework design around the leaf glazed and now under archival glass in a very attractive frame of gilded red wood and black enamel. In all a very impressive display. Very fine and in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes. While widely recognized for their beauty the reproductions from Hamilton's vases have become evidence of the irreconcilable problem of neoclassicism in the Romantic period. Significant changes in the way the vases were engraved over a span of thirty or forty years demonstrate how an immutable collection of objects is subject to radical shifts in representation in response to the social and artistic styles of the time. unknown

Buddenbrooks, Inc. · États-Unis1 595,00 $US≈ 1 422,20 €

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