Grosvenor Prints

W. Harrison Ainsworth [facsimile signature.]
A d'Orsay fecit 21. Novr. 1844 [facsimile.] C. Graf, Lith to Her Majesty.
Lithograph. Image 200 x 153mm. 7¾ x 6". Sheet 373 x 259mm. 14¾ x 10¼".
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882), Novelist. Ainsworth was an author of popular historical romances. He initially studied law but left it for literature, publishing his first novel anonymously in 1826. His first success came with Rookwood (1834), featuring the highwayman Dick Turpin, which led many reviewers to hail him as the successor to Sir Walter Scott. Jack Sheppard (1839), the story of an eighteenth-century burgular, was equally successful, but its supposed glamorisation of crime proved controversial. From then on Ainsworth switched to historical novels based on places rather than criminals, including The Tower of London (1840),Old St. Paul's, A Tale of the Plague and the Fire (1841), and The Lancashire Witches (1849).
[Ref: 12768] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Guilielmus Alabaster Anno Aetatis Suae Luxi Studii Arcanae Theologiae 33.
Corn: Iohns: pinxit. Iohn Payne sculpsit:
[n.d. c.1633.]
Engraving. Collector's stamp of Alfred Morrison (1821-1897) on reverse. Sheet size: 170 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"). Trimmed inside plate.
Portrait of William Alabaster, the divine; head and shoulders in an oval. Used as the frontispiece to his 'Ecce sponsus venit' of 1633. William Alabaster (1567-1640) was an English poet, playwright, and religious writer. He became a Roman Catholic convert in Spain when on a diplomatic mission as chaplain. His religious beliefs led him to be imprisoned several times; eventually he gave up Catholicism, and was favoured by James I. He received a prebend in St Paul's Cathedral, London.
Ex Collection: Alfred Morrison (1821-1897) NPG: D26774.
[Ref: 40024] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

J. Ames F.R.S. & F.S.A. J. Ames [facsimile signature.]
J.Price.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Etching. 150 x 100mm, 6 c 4".
Joseph Ames (1689-1759), author of an account of printing in England from 1471-1600, 'Typographical Antiquities' (1749), and 'English Printers from 1471 to 1700".
[Ref: 19014] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph Ames, F.R.S. & F.S.A.
R. Page sc.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Engraving with letterpress text, sheet 165 x 95mm, 6½ x 3¾".
Joseph Ames (1689-1759), author of an account of printing in England from 1471-1600, 'Typographical Antiquities' (1749), and 'English Printers from 1471 to 1700".
[Ref: 19015] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

[H. C. Andersen.]
CH Jeens [signed in plate.]
[British, n.d. c.1870.]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title, rare. Plate 225 x 150mm. 9 x 6".
Bust portrait of Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875), Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories.
[Ref: 28000] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[...] Hans Christian Andersen [facsimile signature]. Portrait Gallery of Hogg's Instructor.
F. Croll.
[Edinburgh, 1851.]
Stipple engraving with facsimile text. Sheet 245 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½").
Bust portrait of Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875), Danish author, fairy tale writer and poet, noted for his children's stories.
[Ref: 53311] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Christopher Anstey]
Engraved by J. Hibbert Jun.r [after Thomas Lawrence].
[n.d., c.1794.]
Stipple. 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5"), watermarked 1794. Old ink mss. title. Small margins. Very small pinhole left centre.
English poet and author Christopher Anstey (1724-1805), sitting at his desk, writing. Resident at 4 Royal Crescent, Bath, he penned 'The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family', an immediate success. Although he is buried at St. Swithin's Church in Bath, he has a white marble memorial tablet in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.
[Ref: 59810] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Pierre Aretin Ne a Arezzo en Toscane, mort environ l'an 1556. age de 65 ans. [Top of image left] Titianus pinxit [right] W Hollar fecit 1647
Etching, 185 x 135mm (7¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed to image and laid on album paper. Toning
Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) was a well-regarded Italian author, poet and playwright as well as an influential satirist and notorious blackmailer. He was a close friend of Titian's, who painted his portrait many times.
Pennington 1346 iii of iii.
[Ref: 53770] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Embossed Tableaux. Ariosto.
Dobbs, Bailey & Co. [n.d., c.1845.]
Embossed card with printed sepia in border. Sheet 255 x 275mm, 10 x 10¾". Spotted.
An embossed bust of Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), Italian poet best known for his epic poem 'Orlando Furioso', which first appeared in 1516 but which he continued to work on throughout his life.
[Ref: 16705] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Ludovico Ariosto.
Engraved from an original Picture by Titian by J. Walker, Eng.r.to His Imp. Maj.y the Emperor Alexander & Member of the Imp.l Academy of Arts S.t Petersbourg.
Published as the Act directs, April 25th 1819, by Mess.rs Hurst, Robinson & Co. 90 Cheapside.
Mezzotint. Plate: 265 x 190mm (10½ x 7½''), with large margins. Dusty.
A portrait of Italian poet Ludivico Ariosto (1474-1533), famed for his poem 'Orlando Furioso'.
[Ref: 50051] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Sarah Austin] Mrs Austin.
Painted by H.P. Taylor, R.A. _ Drawn on Stone by Weld Taylor.
Published by Weld Taylor, 15 G.t Portland St Aug.st 1835.
Lithograph on chine collé, backing paper printed with title. Printed area 370 x 280mm (14½ x 11"). Tears in backing paper.
Sarah Austin (née Taylor) (1793-1867), translator of of German literature and editor of the 'Memoirs of Sydney Smith' (1855) and 'Letters from Egypt' (1865) by Lady Duff-Gordon (Austin's own daughter, Lucie). Her husband, John Austin (1790-1859), was an influential writer on law, especially with his ' The Province of Jurisprudence Determined' (1832). The couple were good friends with both Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.
[Ref: 48445] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Cap.t Ayscough. From an Original Sketch by Dance, in the Collection of Sir William Musgrave Bar.t.
S. Haring sculp.
Pub.d Dec.r 1 1794, by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall.
Stipple. 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½") very large margins.
A posthumously-published sketch portrait of George Edward Ayscough (d.1779), dramatist and guards officer, nephew of the first Lord Lyttelton. In 1776 he produced a version of Voltaire's ‘Semiramis’ at Drury Lane, which his brother officers attended in great force, securing its success. However Isaac Reed's '' Biographia dramatica'' (1782) described Ayscough as ‘a fool of fashion’ and ‘a parasite of Lord Lyttelton’; 'Seniranis' is condemned as contemptible. Ayscough also editored the ''Miscellaneous Works'' of Lord Lyttelton, published 1774.
[Ref: 48996] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Honoré de Balzac.]
P. Hayrick sc.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etching. 125 x 85mm (5 x 3¼"), with very large margins.
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist.
[Ref: 52554] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Francis Beaumont.
[engraved by John Simon.]
London, Printed for R. Sayer & J Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street [n.d., c.1780].
Very rare mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), large margins. Slight time staining.
Francis Beaumont (1584-1616), English Renaissance dramatist and poet most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher. He had a stroke while still in his twenties, after which he wrote no more plays. This portrait was originally one of four on one plate engraved by John Simon, along with Fletcher, John Milton and Abraham Cowley, for the series 'Poets and Philosophers of England'. For this second state the plate was cut down and a new title engraved.
CS 55, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 59279] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Frau Harriet Beecher-Stowe. Ms. C.L. No.1823.
Inst. Bibi. Excudit. [n.d. c.1830.]
Engraving. 240 x 152mm. 9½ x 6".
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery. As a novel and a play it became very influential in the United States and the United Kingdom. She was influential both for her writings and her public stands on social issues of the day.
[Ref: 23622] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Lithographed & Pubd. by J.M. Menzies 27 Hanover St. Edinr. [n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph, sheet 280 x 220mm. 11 x 8¾". A little soiled, with handling creases. Upper right corner chipped.
Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), American writer, social reformer, and philanthropist who wrote one of the classic works of American literature, 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin' (1852).
[Ref: 27080] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Hilaire Belloc
[David] Low
Supplement to The New Statesman, April 17, 1926.
Photo-lithograph, platemark 220 x 185mm (8½ x 7").
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), poet and author, also Liberal MP for South Salford (1906-1910). Now chiefly remembered for his early comic and satirical work such as 'The Bad Child's Book of Beasts' (1896), Belloc's work increasingly engaged with historical and political issues. This caricature was made soon after the publication of 'The Cruise of the 'Nona'' (1925), which recalled a voyage around England in a small boat on the eve of war in 1914. By Sir David Low (1891-1963) for the New Statesman. New Zealand-born Low, who described caricature as the art of 'all-in portraiture', published two series of portraits as supplements to the New Statesman. The original drawing for this caricature is in the Victoria & Albert Museum.
[Ref: 34834] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Elizabeth Bentley.
Miss Buck del. T. Bassett sculp.
Published as the Act directs Mar 1791.
Stipple. Sheet 135 x 95mm (5¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper.
Portrait of Elizabeth Bentley (1767-1839), from a collection of her poems, 'Genuine Poetical Compositions, on Various Subjects' which was published by subscription in Norwich, 1791. The impressive 1,935 subscribers included literary notables Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Montagu, William Cowper and Hester Chapone.
[Ref: 62111] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Rev.d James Berresford Author of the 'Miseries of Human Life' & drawn in the Printroom of the British Museum for my friend J. T. Smith - Tho.s Foster. May 19th 1823.
1823.
Engraving. 205 x 190mm (8 x 7½"). Small margins and torn to plate mark on bottom and lower half of right edges. Foxing across left and upper areas of the sheet.
Head and shoulders portrait of James Beresford (1764-1840), inclined to the right. Beresford was a writer and clergyman. He wrote under a variety of pseudonyms and 'Miseries of Human Life' was his most successful work (published under his true name), a satirical work still considered to be a 'minor classic' of the genre.
[Ref: 53851] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Marguerite Gardiner, countess of Blessington] Woman. The Greatest Social Gift.
E.T. Parris J.B. Forrest
Engraved for this Work [c.1850]
Engraving, sheet 220 x 135mm (8½ x 5¼").
Marguerite Gardiner, countess of Blessington (1789-1849), author. Marguerite's best-known book is her 'Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron', initially published in installments in 1832-3 before appearing in one volume eleven years later. It was based on Marguerite's daily encounters with Byron after they both settled in Genoa in 1823. Engraved after a portrait by Edmund Thomas Parris (1793-1873), whose drawings were published alongside verses by Marguerite in 1836-8.
[Ref: 41384] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Revd. John Bowle of Idmiston Co. Wilts. The Revd. John Bowle was lineally descended from John Bowle D.D. Bishop of Rochester…"I rejoice to see the admired Cervantes merge again from oblivion in his won language and receive additional lustre from a British pen." Dated 2nd March 1778. [Facsimile signature:] J. Bowle.
[n.d. c.1838.]
Stipple and letterpress. Plate 336 x 235mm. 13¼ x 9¼".
John Bowle was the first real editor of Don Quixote, and is a relatively unknown figure. In 1781 Bowle published a three-volume edition of Don Quixote. Bowle revered Cervantes and thought of the text as a classic work which had been considered merely comic and bawdy for too long.
[Ref: 16256] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Hugh Boyd, Esq.r
Engraved by Caroline Watson from a crayon drawing In the possession of Mrs. Boyd.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Stipple. 132 x 95mm. 5¼ x 3¾". Small paper damage into upper edge. Trimmed.
Hugh Boyd (1746-1794) was educated at Trinity College Dublin and went on to become editor for the political paper, the Freeholder in Dublin, before moving to London where he joing the club attended by Johnson, Goldsmith and Burke. He accompanied Lord Macartney to India as his secretary and was captured and imprisoned by the French. He became Master-Attendant in Madras where he edited the Madras Courier and other Anglo-Indian journals. His miscellaneous works were published between 1798 and 1800, and there were many who believed him,(rather than Sir Philip Francis), to be the author of the 'Junius Letters', which had appeared in the Public Advertiser, London, from 1769 to 1772, attacking George III and his ministers.
[Ref: 17884] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Geeraardt Brandt, in zyn leven Leeraar der Remonstrantsche Gemeente te Amsterdam. Geb: den XXV. Jul: MDCXXII. Gest: den XI. Oct. MDCLXXXV. Wat man verbeeldt dees pxint? Den Kerkhistorischiyver Met zyn geslepen brein en zedigheit en yver; Den Vxededichter, die ten dienst van't Vrye landt De vlugge veder voert, den arbeidsamen BRANDT, A. Moonen.
M Musscher pinx. P: van Gunst Sculp.
B. Bos. Excudit. [n.d. c.1710.]
Copper engraving. Plate 183 x 134mm. 7¼ x 5¼".
Gerard Brandt (1626-1685), was a Dutch playwright, poet, preacher, church historian, biographer and naval historian. He was a well-known writer in his own time.
[Ref: 14890] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Rupert Brooke 1913.
From a photograph by Sherril Schell. Emery Walker Ph.sc.
London, Published by Emery Walker Limited, 16 Clifford's Inn, Fleet St. E.C., May 1st 1916.
Photographic print, with large margins. Plate 198 x 147mm. 7¾ x 5¾".
Rupert Chawner Brooker (1887-1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War. From a photo by Sherrill Schell (1877-1694); the glass positive was given to the National Portrait Gallery by Emery Walker Ltd in 1956.
See NPG: P101(f).
[Ref: 23623] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

"Society" Bijou Portraits, No.110.--Mr Robert Browning. Supplement to "Society", February 7, 1885.
From a Photograph b Alexander Bassano.
"Ink-Photo", Sprague & Co. London [1885.]
Photogravure. 330 x 210mm. 13 x 8¼". Holes along top and bottom, slight crease across title.
Robert Browning (1812-1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. Notable works inlcude, 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin', 'Porphyria's Lover', 'The Ring and the Book', 'Men and Women', and 'My Last Duchess'.
[Ref: 23624] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Browning.]
Barraud. 263, Oxford Street, London. & 92, Bold Street, Liverpool.
W & S. Ltd. Permanent. [Richard Bentley & Son, 1888.]
Sepia carbon print on blue card mount. 354 x 260mm. 14 x 10¼".
Robert Browning (1812-1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. Notable works inlcude, 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin', 'Porphyria's Lover', 'The Ring and the Book', 'Men and Women', and 'My Last Duchess'.
[Ref: 23625] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Robert Browning. Born 1812; Died 1889.
Riddle & Couchman Lith, London. From a Photograph by Mr. W.H. Grove, 174, Brompton Road, S.W.
Our Poets' Corner. Plate No.13. "Masterpiece Library" October 1895.
Coloured lithograph. 381 x 279mm. 15 x 11".
Robert Browning (1812-1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. Notable works inlcude, 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin', 'Porphyria's Lover', 'The Ring and the Book', 'Men and Women', and 'My Last Duchess'.
[Ref: 23628] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

John Buchan.
From a drawing by Frank E. Slater.
[n.d., c.1920.]
Sheet: 285 x 195mm (11 x 8"). Trimmed, creasing.
A portrait of Scottish novelist and historian John Buchan (1875-1940) who served as Governer General of Canada.
[Ref: 45808] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

J.S. Buckingham [facsimile signature].
[after Edwin Dalton Smith.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Stipple, printed on chine collé. 295 x 230mm (11½ x 9"), very large margins.
Half-length portrait of James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), author, journalist and traveller. He founded the Calcutta Journal in 1818; criticisms of the East India Company led to his expulsion from India in 1823, although the East India Company later gave him a pension of £500 a year as compensation. After a watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, painted in 1835 by Edwin Dalton Smith (1800-83), now in the National Portrait Gallery.
[Ref: 58263] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Effigis of Francis Bugg of Mildenhall the 60th Year of His Age 1700. I magnifie mine Office, If by any means...
F. H. van Hove. sculp.
[R. Janeway & J. Robinson 1700.]
Engraving. Sheet: 140 x 85mm (5½ x 3¼''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A portrait of Francis Bugg (1740-1727) which served as frontispiece to 'The Pilgrim's Progress from Quakerism to Christianity' 1700. Francis Bugg became a Quaker while a young man but converted back to Christianity and wrote several books arguing against Quakerism.
[Ref: 49062] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

John Bunyan,
[n.d., c.1700.]
Rare woodcut. Sheet 150 x 85mm (6 x 3½"). Light time staining.
A portrait of John Bunyan (1628-88), preacher and religious writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress, probably a frontispiece to one of his books.
[Ref: 52548] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[John Bunyan.]
[after Robert White.]
[n.d., c.1690.]
Etching. Sheet 135 x 75mm (5¼ x 3"). Thread margins, repaired tear top left. Bit messy.
Portrait of John Bunyan (1628-88), apparently asleep under a tree but, as he is leaning on a skull, his rest is probably eternal. A lion roars bottom left.
[Ref: 52563] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Portrait of John Bunyan Author of the Pilgrims Progress.
Engraved by W.m Sharp, from a Picture formerly in the possession of the late George Phillips Esqr.
London, Pub. Aug. 1819. by Hurst Robinson & Co./late Boydells/.90 Cheapside.
Etching. 240 x 175mm (9½ x 7")
John Bunyan (1628 - 1688), preacher and writer of 'Pilgrim's Progress'.
[Ref: 7928] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

John Bunyan Minister of The Gospel at Bedford Died at London Aug. 31. 1688. Aged 60 having Written 60 Books.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Woodcut. Sheet 125 x 75mm (5 x 3"). Trimmed within printed border on left, laid on album paper. Text verso. Stained.
A portrait of John Bunyan (1628-88), preacher and religious writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress, probably a frontispiece to one of his books.
[Ref: 52547] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Rev.d Edward Burn.
Drawn by Hancock. Engraved by A. Cardon.
London Pub June 4, 1807 by C. Richards 349 Strand. Proof.
Stipple, rare with large margins. Plate 229 x 178mm. 9 x 7". Slight foxing.
Edward Burn (1762-1837) was a polemical writer who opposed Joseph Priestley.
[Ref: 24774] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Praecellentissimi Vatis, Samuelis Butler. Calidus excuso populum suspendere Naso. Pers. Illustrissomp Viro Georgio Granville Baroni de Lansdown. Hanc Tabulam Humillime D.D.D. G. Vertue.
G. Soest pinx. G. Vertue Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving. Plate: 265 x 240mm (10½ x 9½''), with very large margins. Some marking.
A portrait of poet and satirist Samuel Butler (1613-1680) from Vertue's 'Twelve Celebrated English Poets'.
[Ref: 50045] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

John Byrom. M.A. F.R.S. ''Ha!'' quoth I to his Face ''my old friend, are you there?'' / And methought the face smil'd.
Engraved by Thopham, from an Original sketch by D. Rasbotham Esq.r In the Posession of Charles White Esq.r.
Leeds Pub.d 15th Dec.r 1814 by James Nichols.
Engraving. 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½"). Trimmed and mounted in album paper at edges.
John Byrom (1692-1763), poet and inventor of a system of shorthand. He also coined the phrase ''Tweedledum and Tweedledee'', during a dispute about the merits of composers Handel and Bononcini.
[Ref: 59829] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron. Proof.
Painted by T. Phillips, engraved by S. W. Reynolds.
Pub.d by T. Phillips, Feb.y 1822.
Fine mezzotint. 230 x 165mm (9 x 6½"), with wide margins.
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece. Engraved from the portrait by Thomas Phillips, which was undertaken as part of a commission by the publisher William Miller to paint the portraits of several poets whose works he published, the intention being to hang them together at Miller's house at 50 Albemarle Street, London. Annette Peach writes of the commission: "In 1813 Murray commissioned from Phillips a portrait of Byron (who brought the publisher more commercial success than any other of his writers), which still hangs over the drawing-room fireplace in Albemarle Street. The half-length view famously shows a pale-complexioned Byron in a white shirt with a large turned-down ‘Byronic’ collar open at the neck to reveal his throat, and wrapped in a dark cloak. The dress and pose are identical to that of Charles Mayne Young in his portrait by G. H. Harlow (1809; Garrick Club, London), where the actor is portrayed as Hamlet, and it is possible that Byron saw Young perform this role. As in his portrait of Blake, Phillips's ability to convey the Romantic (and here self-dramatizing) cast of his sitter's imagination indicates that, although his œuvre is less flamboyant than that of his contemporary Sir Thomas Lawrence, he, too, was quintessentially a Romantic painter." One of several engravings made from Phillips' portrait.
Whitman: 45
[Ref: 53855] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Byron. From a Bust by Bartolini of Florence, made from the life a Pisa in 1822.
Ingrey & Madeley lithog 310 Strand
London, Pub.d by J. Hunt, Examiner Office Tavistock St.t Strand. 1824.
Lithograph. Sheet: 240 x 165mm (9½ x 6½"). Trimmed.
A portrait of the poet Lord Byron (1788-1824).
[Ref: 45732] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron. No.4 Lady's Magazine.____April 1815.
J. Heath A.R.A. sculp.t
Published May 1.1815 by G. & S. Robinson, Paternoster Row.
Stipple, large margins. Plate 165 x 108mm (6½ x 4¼").
George George Byron (1788-1824), the famous poet; looking young and handsome. From the Lady's Magazine, 1815.
[Ref: 31308] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Lord Byron].
M. Gauci Lit. From the minature painted from life in 1813 by M. Gauci.
Printed by Engelmann & co.
Lithograph, rare.
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824) was a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him aa a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece.
[Ref: 31666] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Lord Byron.]
W.E. West pinxit. J.T. Wedgewood Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Engraving, proof before letters. 250 x 210mm, 9¾ z 8¼". Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788 - 1824), poet. From the painting by William Edward West (1788 - 1857) in the National Galleries of Scotland collection. West made a name for himself as a painter of miniature portraits in his native Kentucky whilst still in his teens. A benefactor financed his studies in Thomas Sully's studio in Philadelphia. He visited Italy in 1819 and stayed in Europe for the next twenty years. In 1825 he moved to London but financial difficulties forced him to go back to America. Washington Irving, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron were among his most celebrated sitters.
NGS Accession no: PG 1561.
[Ref: 17444] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron. From the Original Picture in the Possession of John Murray, Esq.
Painted by Tho.s Phillips, R.A. Engraved by Rob.t Graves. Printed by R. Lloyd.
[London: Published March 1st 1836 by Hodgson & Graves, Printsellers to the King, 6 Pall Mall.]
Steel engraving. Sheet 395 x 300mm (15½ x 11¾"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line. Small repaired tear lower right border. Slight marks in title.
The famous portrait of Lord George Byron owned by his publisher.
[Ref: 57545] £260.00

Lord Byron.
A. Isola dip. C. Bruni lit. Torino in de Festa.
[Genova: L. Pellas, 1830.]
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 190 x 117mm (7½ x 4½").
Frontispiece portrait from 'Poemi di Lord G. Byron Tradotti dall'originale inglese da Pietro Isola'.
[Ref: 60401] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[George, Lord Byron]
T. Phillips R.A. pinxit. C. Warren sculpsit.
[c.1824]
Line engraving on india with very large margins, proof before title; 270 x 170mm (10½ x 6¾"). Tipped into album sheet.
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet and archetypal Romantic figure. Byron was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece. Engraved from the portrait by Thomas Phillips, which was undertaken as part of a commission by the publisher William Miller to paint the portraits of several poets whose works he published, the intention being to hang them together at Miller's house at 50 Albemarle Street, London. Annette Peach writes of the commission: "In 1813 Murray commissioned from Phillips a portrait of Byron (who brought the publisher more commercial success than any other of his writers), which still hangs over the drawing-room fireplace in Albemarle Street. The half-length view famously shows a pale-complexioned Byron in a white shirt with a large turned-down ‘Byronic’ collar open at the neck to reveal his throat, and wrapped in a dark cloak. The dress and pose are identical to that of Charles Mayne Young in his portrait by G. H. Harlow (1809; Garrick Club, London), where the actor is portrayed as Hamlet, and it is possible that Byron saw Young perform this role. As in his portrait of Blake, Phillips's ability to convey the Romantic (and here self-dramatizing) cast of his sitter's imagination indicates that, although his œuvre is less flamboyant than that of his contemporary Sir Thomas Lawrence, he, too, was quintessentially a Romantic painter."
Not in O'D; For a larger version of the same image see ref. 34943.
[Ref: 34944] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron [ms]
[possibly by J.S. Agar, 1814]
Line engraving on india, proof before letters, with very large margins; platemark 220 x 180mm (8¾ x 7"). Tipped into album sheet.
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet and archetypal Romantic figure. Byron was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece. Engraved from the portrait by Thomas Phillips, which was undertaken as part of a commission by the publisher William Miller to paint the portraits of several poets whose works he published, the intention being to hang them together at Miller's house at 50 Albemarle Street, London. Annette Peach writes of the commission: "In 1813 Murray commissioned from Phillips a portrait of Byron (who brought the publisher more commercial success than any other of his writers), which still hangs over the drawing-room fireplace in Albemarle Street. The half-length view famously shows a pale-complexioned Byron in a white shirt with a large turned-down ‘Byronic’ collar open at the neck to reveal his throat, and wrapped in a dark cloak. The dress and pose are identical to that of Charles Mayne Young in his portrait by G. H. Harlow (1809; Garrick Club, London), where the actor is portrayed as Hamlet, and it is possible that Byron saw Young perform this role. As in his portrait of Blake, Phillips's ability to convey the Romantic (and here self-dramatizing) cast of his sitter's imagination indicates that, although his œuvre is less flamboyant than that of his contemporary Sir Thomas Lawrence, he, too, was quintessentially a Romantic painter." One of several engravings made from Phillips' portrait.
O'D 27?; For a larger version of the same image see ref. 34943.
[Ref: 34946] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Byron.
[Lithographed by Ingrey and Madeley of London, after Bartolini's bust.]
[Published by John Hunt, 1824.]
Lithograph, framed. Frame 243 xx 179mm. 9½ x 7". Scarce.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788 - 1824), poet.
[Ref: 17754] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

Byron.
Engraved by Cha.s Heath.
Published by Tho.s Tegg, Cheapside. [n.d. c.1825.]
Engraving with stipple, india proof, with large margins. Plate 230 x 152mm. 9 x 6".
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824) was a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him a sa national hero. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi, Greece.
[Ref: 23993] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Byron.
[n.d. c.1825.]
Rare stipple, proof before artist and engraver name, and publication line, large margins. Plate 229 x 145mm (9 x 5¾"). Slight rubbing on left.
George George Byron (1788-1824), the famous poet; seen here in a rare portrait as a young man with a pillar and curtains behind.
[Ref: 31216] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[George, Lord Byron.]
Painted by T. Holmes. Engraved by H.T. Ryall.
London, Published Septr. 1, 1835, (for Mr. Holmes) by F.G. Moon, Printseller to the King, 20 Threadneedle Street.
Stipple portrait, facsimile autograph letter from Byron to the artist Holmes below. India laid paper, 305 x 230mm. 12 x 9". Trimmed within plate, lacking title etc; the image a strong impression.
Interesting portrait of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788 - 1824), poet. In the facsimile mss., from the original letter dated May 18th 1823 in the possession of Byron's sister Mrs. Leigh, the great poet expresses his admiration for the likeness by miniature painter James Holmes (1777 - 1860), and requests an impression of the print.
NPG D8821.
[Ref: 19688] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

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