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King Lear. Act 3. Sc. 6.
F.Hayman Inv. H. Gravelot Sculp.
[Oxford: University Press, c.1743-4.]
Copper engraving. Sheet 260 x 180mm, 10¼ x 7".
Lear, wandering on the heath after the storm, encounters Edgar in the guise of Tom o' Bedlam. From Sir Thomas Hanmer's Shakespeare, a deluxe six-volume edition with fine bindings and nearly 40 original illustrations by Francis Hayman. engraved by Hubert Gravelot. This was the first complete edition to be published outside London. A second edition appeared in 1770.
[Ref: 17560] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
F.Hayman Inv. H. Gravelot Sculp.
[Oxford: University Press, c.1743-4.]
Copper engraving. Sheet 260 x 180mm, 10¼ x 7".
Lear, wandering on the heath after the storm, encounters Edgar in the guise of Tom o' Bedlam. From Sir Thomas Hanmer's Shakespeare, a deluxe six-volume edition with fine bindings and nearly 40 original illustrations by Francis Hayman. engraved by Hubert Gravelot. This was the first complete edition to be published outside London. A second edition appeared in 1770.
[Ref: 17560] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
The Ladies Advocate; or An Apology for Matrimony. In Answer to the Batchelor's Monitor.
H. Gravelot inv. et sculp.
Published according to Act of Parliament by John Osborn in Pater-Noster Row 1741.
Engraved broadside, 18th century watermark. 165 x 240mm (6½ x 9½"), set in letterpress. Letterpress trimmed, losing 80% of text. Creased where folded.
An allegorical scene of a wedding, illustrating a text that calculates the benefits of matrimony to a married man, in response to a similar text showing the costs.
[Ref: 55207] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
H. Gravelot inv. et sculp.
Published according to Act of Parliament by John Osborn in Pater-Noster Row 1741.
Engraved broadside, 18th century watermark. 165 x 240mm (6½ x 9½"), set in letterpress. Letterpress trimmed, losing 80% of text. Creased where folded.
An allegorical scene of a wedding, illustrating a text that calculates the benefits of matrimony to a married man, in response to a similar text showing the costs.
[Ref: 55207] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
![[The illustrations from Sir Thomas Hanmer's 'Works of Shakespear'.]](jpegs/57459.jpg)
[The illustrations from Sir Thomas Hanmer's 'Works of Shakespear'.]
F.Hayman Inv. H. Gravelot Sculp.
[Oxford: University Press, c.1743-4.]
Original wrappers; 39 engraved plates, in ink on frontis "Thos. Norris"; c.250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), with very large margins. Binding strained, some plates with small tears in margins, damp staining and age-toning.
The complete set of 36 scenes engraved by Hubert Gravelot after Francis Hayman. The other three plates are a portrait of Shakespeare after Houbraken, his memorial in Holy Trinity Church at Stratford-upon-Avon and Scheemakers' 18th-century monument in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. The Oxford University Press published a deluxe six-volume illustrated edition of Shakespeare, the first complete edition to be published outside London. The fine bindings and the quality of the illustrations made the edition very popular; however Sir Thomas Hanmer (1677-1746, a Speaker of the House of Commons) had edited the text (not present here) with his own conjectures, without indictating what he had changed. 'William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion' (1997) describes the edition as ''one of the worst in the eighteenth century''.
[Ref: 57459] £850.00 view all images for this item
F.Hayman Inv. H. Gravelot Sculp.
[Oxford: University Press, c.1743-4.]
Original wrappers; 39 engraved plates, in ink on frontis "Thos. Norris"; c.250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), with very large margins. Binding strained, some plates with small tears in margins, damp staining and age-toning.
The complete set of 36 scenes engraved by Hubert Gravelot after Francis Hayman. The other three plates are a portrait of Shakespeare after Houbraken, his memorial in Holy Trinity Church at Stratford-upon-Avon and Scheemakers' 18th-century monument in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. The Oxford University Press published a deluxe six-volume illustrated edition of Shakespeare, the first complete edition to be published outside London. The fine bindings and the quality of the illustrations made the edition very popular; however Sir Thomas Hanmer (1677-1746, a Speaker of the House of Commons) had edited the text (not present here) with his own conjectures, without indictating what he had changed. 'William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion' (1997) describes the edition as ''one of the worst in the eighteenth century''.
[Ref: 57459] £850.00 view all images for this item