Moliere.
Mignard Pinx.t. P.M. Alix Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Fine aquatint, printed in colours. Sheet 325 x 255mm (12¾ x 10"). Trimmed to plate, horizontal fold, laid on album paper.
A portrait of Jean Baptiste Poqelin (1622-1673), better known as Molière, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature.
[Ref: 52843] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
Arias Montanus.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Engraving, Sheet 80 x 65mm, 3¼ x 2½". Trimmed, laid on album paper.
Portrait of Benedictus Arias Montanus (1527-98), the Spanish orientalist whose polyglot edition of the Bible caused him to be denounced to the Inquisition, but he was aquitted. His works contained a number of maps relating to biblical studies, including the world, the Holy Land and Jerusalem.
[Ref: 25779] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
James Montgomery Esq.r Author of the Wanderer of Switzerland, The West Indies, The World before the Flood, Greenland, &c. &c.
Painted by J.R. Smith. Engraved by C. Turner.
Sheffield, Published July 1st 1819 by Mess.rs Rodwell & Martin, New Bond Street.
Rare mezzotint, with very large margins. 355 x 260mm (14 x 10¼). Foxing.
James Montgomery (1771-1854), Poet and hymn writer. Whitman: 379
[Ref: 35802] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Inarco Celenio. P: A:.
Mecou sculp.t
[n.d. c.1800.]
Stipple with large margins. Plate 184 x 134mm (7¼ x 5¼").
Leandro Fernandez de Moratin (1760-1828) the Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet. In addition to translating works of Moliere and William Shakespeare into Spanish, he himself was a major poet, dramatist and man of letters whose writings promoted the reformist ideas associated with the Spanish Enlightenment.
[Ref: 34619] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
Mrs. Hannah More. From the Original Picture in the possession of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland Bar.t MP.
Painted by H. W. Pickersgill, A.R.A. Engraved by W. H. Worthington.
London Published March 1, 1824 by J. Hudson, Cheapside.
Engraving on india, platemark 445 x 327mm (17½ x 13"), with very large margins. Tear to right margin. Fine impression.
Hannah More (1745 - 1833) writer and philanthropist. More's conservative and paternalist views, expressed, in prose, verse and religious and political writings, long saw her dismissed as merely the reactionary antithesis of her contemporary Mary Wollstonecraft, although she is now increasingly recognized as a unique public figure in late Georgian Britain. Engraving after the 1822 portrait by H.W. Pickersgill, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London. For another impression see ref. 11936. Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 47080] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
Thomas Mortimer, Esq.r
Sr. W. Beechey pinx.t Ridley sculp.
Published by J. Sewell, Cornhill, May 1. 1799.
Stipple. 146 x 108mm. 5¾ x 4½".
Thomas Mortimer (1730-1810) was a voluminous writer, chiefly of biographies and economic subjects. He was educated at Harrow and mastered French and Italian to improve his studies of modern history. In 1762 he was made English vice-counsul for the Austrian Netherlands, a post he retained for six years. Mortimer's largest work was The British Plutarch, also owned in a first edition by Belmont Abbey, which details in six volumes the lives of eminent Britons from the time of Henry VIII to George II. He also authoured a General Commercial Dictionary and translated Gautier's Life and Exploits of Pyrrhus from the French. This three volume History seems likely to have been his proudest project, given his known preference for the subject and the ambitious title-page dedication to Queen Charlotte. Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25379] £45.00
(£54.00 incl.VAT)
Thomas Morton Esq.r.
Engraved by Ja.s. Heath, from a Picture by J. R. Smith.
Published Jan.y. 1. 1804 by J. Heath, 15, Russell Place, Fitzroy Square: and I. P. Thompson, Great Newport Street, Long Acre.
Stipple printed in colour. Sheet: 195 x 240mm, (7¾ x 9½"). Trimmed within plate. Some slight creasing.
Half-portrait in an oval of British Playwright Thomas Morton (1764-1838). Morton originally travelled to London to study for the bar but abandoned the law in order to write plays.
[Ref: 35673] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
Alfred de Musset. 1810-1857. [&] Victor Hugo. 1802.
Adrien Nargeot.
Imp. Lemercier. [n.d. c.1850.]
Engraving, cut at top. 223 x 319mm (8¾ x 12½").
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (1810-1857), the French dramatist, poet and novelist. The tale of his celebrated love affair with George Sand, which lasted from 1833 to 1835, is told from his point of view in his autobiographical novel, 'La Confession d'un Enfant du Siecle'. He is also believed to be the author of Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess (1833), a lesbian erotic novel, also believed to be modelled on George Sand. Victor Hugo (1802-1855), the famed French poet, novelist and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Musset's French Romanticism was not appreciated by Hugo, and the feeling was mutual on Musset's part. It is said that Musset's rivalry was seen as the natural revolt of the youngest of the Romantics against the leader of the tribe.
[Ref: 34642] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
[John Nichols, Esq. F.S.A. of Lon. Edin. & Perth. Born at Islington Feb.y 2 1744-5. Author of te History & Antiquities of the Count y of Leicester, in 7 Vols fol. 1795...]
J. Jackson Pinxit 1811 H. Meyer Sculpt. Proof.
Rare mezzotint, proof before publication; platemark 330 x 265mm (13 x 10½").
John Nichols (1745-1826), printer and writer. Beginning as an apprentice at Stationers' Hall, Nichols become proprietor of one of the largest printing houses in London when in 1777 his master William Bowyer died. Nichols' own reputation as an editor, biographer and antiquary grew with the expansion of his printing business: he published numerous historical and antiquarian volumes and was an eminent chronicler of the book trade. His reputation as an antiquarian and county historian rests largely on his 'History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester', while he was admired by contemporaries such as Boswell, Gibbon and Walpole for his intelligence and wit.
[Ref: 41418] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
The Lively Portraicture of Sir Thomas Overbury. A mans' best fortune or his worst's a wife: Yet I, that knew not mariage peace nor strife, Live by a good, by a bad one lost my life. A wife like her I writ, man scarfe can wed: Of a false friend like mine, man scarfe hath read.
SP [Simon van de Passe] fe.
[n.d., first published c.1616, this impression later]
Engraving, with large margins, rare. Plate 120 x 70mm. 4¾ x 2¾".
Portrait of Sir Thomas Overbury (1571-1613), courtier and author, aged 32, half-length, with lace ruff, in an oval. The image is taken from a portrait in oils attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts (Oxford, Bodleian Library). Overbury was close to Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, and when the possibility of a marriage between Carr and Frances Howard arose, Overbury made clear his opposition to the match. Having acquired a reputation as a troublemaker Overbury was offered an ambassadorship overseas to remove him from court, which he declined against the king's wishes. As a result he was imprisoned in the Tower, where he died some months later. It has been thought, although not conclusively proven, that Frances Howard attempted to have him poisoned. Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25492] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Lively Portraicture of Sir Thomas Overbury. A mans' best fortune or his worst's a wife: Yet I, that knew not mariage peace nor strife, Live by a good, by a bad one lost my life. A wife like her I writ, man scarfe can wed: Of a false friend like mine, man scarfe hath read.
SP [Simon van de Passe] fe.
Laur: Lisle excud. [n.d. c.1616]
Engraving. 120 x 70mm. 4¾ x 2¾". Cut.
Portrait of Sir Thomas Overbury (1571-1613), courtier and author, aged 32, half-length, with lace ruff, in an oval. The image is taken from a portrait in oils attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts (Oxford, Bodleian Library) and was entered in the Stationers' Register by Laurence Lisle in 1616. Overbury was close to Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, and when Carr the possibility of a marriage between Carr and Frances Howard arose, Overbury made clear his opposition to the match. Having acquired a reputation as a troublemaker Overbury was offered an ambassadorship overseas to remove him from court, which he declined against the king's wishes. As a result he was imprisoned in the Tower, where he died some months later. It has been thought, although not conclusively proven, that Frances Howard attempted to have him poisoned. Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25494] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. Tho.s Paine
Peel pinx.t Angus sculp.t
Published as the Act directs 1 Sep.r 1791 by C. Forster No.41 Poultry
Engraving, sheet 160 x 100mm (6¼ x 4"). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809), author and revolutionary. A leading figure in the age of revolutions and an effective pamphleteer, Paine's works included 'Common Sense' (1776), which inspired people in the 'Thirteen Colonies' to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain; the hugely successful 'Rights of Man' (1791-2), which did much to restore credit to the French in Britain and America; and 'The Age of Reason' (1793), a trenchant attack on Christianity and all formal religions which stirred up hostility for many years afterwards (in 1888 Teddy Roosevelt described him as 'a filthy little atheist'). Engraved after a portrait by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), American painter and museum founder who served in the Pennsylvania militia and participated in radical politics during the Revolution. For another engraving of Paine from the same portrait by Peale see ref. 34441.
[Ref: 43584] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
Tom Paine.
Eng. by K. Mackenzie from a Miniature by H. Richards
Published March 31 1800 by G. Cawthorne British Library Strand London.
Stipple, sheet 145 x 105mm (5¾ x 4"). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809), author and revolutionary. A leading figure in the age of revolutions and an effective pamphleteer, Paine's works included 'Common Sense' (1776), which inspired people in the 'Thirteen Colonies' to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain; the hugely successful 'Rights of Man' (1791-2), which did much to restore credit to the French in Britain and America; and 'The Age of Reason' (1793), a trenchant attack on Christianity and all formal religions which stirred up hostility for many years afterwards (in 1888 Teddy Roosevelt described him as 'a filthy little atheist').
[Ref: 43582] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
Miss Pandoe.
The Original by J. Lilley.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Mezzotint. Open letter state. Sheet size: 245 x 170mm (9½ x 6¾"). Large margins. Light foxing. Damage along rightedge of sheet where previously bound. Trimmed inside platemark.
A portrait of Julia Pardoe (1806 - 1862), half-length, seated facing front and looking away to the left, with an alcove and climbing plants behind. Pardoe was an English poet, novelist, historian and traveller, perhaps best known for her books on travels in Turkey, which are some of the earliest works by a woman on this area. In 1836 she travelled to Constantinople with her father, Major Thomas Pardoe. She later collaborated with the artist William Henry Bartlett to produce 'The Beauties of the Bosphorus' (1839), an illustrated account of Constantinople. Ex collection of Chrostopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 37168] £75.00
(£90.00 incl.VAT)
The Reverend Thomas Parnell, D.D. Archdeacon of Clogher. From an Original Painting in the Possession of S.r John Parnell, To whom this Plate is Dedicated, by his very humble Servant Thomas Davies
Publish'd According to Act of Parlim.t March 17th. 1771.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Thread margin at bottom, repairs to platemark top right.
Thomas Parnell (1679-1718), Dublin-born cleric, appointed Archdeacon of Clogher in 1705. He wrote for 'The Spectator' and helped Pope in his translation of 'The Iliad'. Published several poetical pieces. He was a member of the 'Scriblerus Club' with Pope, Swift and Gay. CS Anon 122.
[Ref: 57668] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
Jean Passerat.
L'armessin scul.
[n.d., 1682.]
Engraving, 190 x 140mm, 7½ x 5½". Trimmed.
Jean Passerat (1534-1602), French political satirist and poet. His 'Sur la journée de Senlis' is one of the most celebrated political songs in French. Published in Isaac Bullart's 'Académie des Sciences et des Arts'.
[Ref: 16746] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
Silvio Pellico.
con permis. Torino, Lit. luneKe. Cie.
Torino, presso Pietro Marietti Librajo e Neg.te di Stampe. [n.d. c.1850.]
Lithograph. 610 x 450mm. 24 x 17¾". Some creasing around the edges.
Silvio Pellico (1789-1854) was an Italian writer, poet, dramatist and patriot. His early years were spent in Lyon, where he devoted his time to the study of French literature, and in 1810 he returned to Milan, where he became professor of French in the Collegio degli Orfani Militari. He began work as a private tutor but aimed to weaken the hold of the Austrian despotism through means of education and his teachings. He was taken on as the secretary of management of the Conciliatore, a review which appeared in 1818. However, the paper ran for only a year until the society was broken up by the government. In 1820 Pellico was arrested on the charge of Carbonarism; forming part of a secret revolutionary society, with patriotic and liberal goals but with little and very unclear policital focus. He was sentenced to death, however in 1822 this was readdressed and he was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. He was later released in 1830 and set about publishing his prison compositions. The most famous of these works was Le mie prigioni, an account of his prison sufferings, which gained him the friendship of Marchesa di Barolo, with whom he stayed until his death following the passing away of his parents.
[Ref: 17373] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
Sam. Pepys. Car. et. Iac. Angl. Regib. A. Secretis. Admiraliae. Mens cujus que is est Quisque.
G: Kneller pinx: R: White Sculp:
[n.d. c.1690.]
Engraving. Sheet: 145 x 90mm (5¾ x 3½"). Trimmed to image.
Portrait of Samuel Pepys, bust length in an oval frame on a pedestal, wearing long wig, lace cravat, and gown. Frontispiece to his 'Naval memoirs' (1690). Samuel Pepys FRS (1633-1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. He rose to be Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and subsequently King James II.
[Ref: 55265] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
Johannes Philips. Heroici Carminis Ad Antiquitatis imaginem conformati Inter Anglos Author Egregius Uni, in hoc laudis genere, Miltono Secundus Primoq. poene par.
M: V.dr Gucht Sculp.
London Printed for Bernard Lintott at the Cross-Keys between the two Temple Gates in Fleet Street pr.1s.
Engraving. Plate: 365 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼''). Trimmed to plate.
A portrait of poet John Philips (1676-1709) after a portrait by Godfrey Kneller.
[Ref: 49457] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
Johannes Philips. Heroici Carminis Ad Antiquitatis imaginem conformati Inter Anglos Author Egregius: Uni, in hoc laudis genere, Miltono secundus Primoq[ue] pæne par. ob. 1709 ot 32.
[After G. Kneller] M: V.dr Gucht Sculp.
[n.d. c.1715.]
Very rare engraving, 18th century watermark, sheet 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Trimmed to image losing publication line, glued on album sheet at edges.
Half-length portrait of poet John Philips (1676-1709), in an oval. Wearing open collar and robe. The portrait was the frontispiece to 'Poems by Mr John Philips, late of Christ-Church, Oxon' (London, 1715).
[Ref: 59382] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
A. Pope.
Drawn by E.F. Burney. Engraved by L.s Schiavonetti.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Engraving. 202 x 145mm. 8 x 5¾".
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse for his translation of Homer. His is famous for his use of the heroic couplet.
[Ref: 23713] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
Alexander Pope Esq. In the Possession of Mr. Arthur Pond.
A. Pond pinxit. J. Houbraken sculps. Amst. 1747.
Impensis J. & P. Knapton Londini.
Engraving. Plate: 215 x 350mm (8½ x 13¾"). Some foxing in very small margins, tipped into album sheet.
A half-length portrait of English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744), famous for his translation of Homer and for his satirical verse.
[Ref: 41963] £90.00
(£108.00 incl.VAT)
Alex. Pope.
A. Pond pinx. J. Stow sculp.
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, May 12 1794.
Engraving. Sheet: 230 x 330mm (9 x 13"). Trimmed nearly to image.
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), poet, resting on his left arm on a table, looking to left, wearing open jacket and neckerchief. Rectangular frame, cameo of the god Apollo below. After Arthur Pond (1701 - 1758). NPG D19672. See 39806
[Ref: 39800] £85.00
(£102.00 incl.VAT)
Alexandre Pope.
des Rais del. Le Coeur Sculp.t 1787.
Aquatint. 255 x 190mm. 10 x 7½". Crease to lower left corner.
Unusual portrait of Alexander Pope (1688-1744) holding his 1834 poem 'An Essay on Man' (with title in French), framed by a medallion. Pope, the 18th century English poet, was best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. The son of a linen-draper, Pope was first noticed by Jacob Tonson who published his 'Pastorals' in 1709. With 'The Rape of the Lock' (1712), and his translations of Homer, Pope became the most formidable literary figure of his day, with a large circle of both friends and enemies. Primarily a satirical poet and of unsurpassed metrical skill, he wrote 'what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed'. A friend of Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, part of Lord Burlington's circle, and famous in the history of landscape gardening for the grounds of his villa at Twickenham (particularly his 'grotto'), he was revered as one of the great personalities of the age. for another print from the same series, see ref. 15297
[Ref: 27263] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Alex.r Pope Esq.r
Aveline sculp.
[n.d. c.1750.]
Engraving and etching. 127 x 76mm. 5 x 3". Trimmed and laid on card.
Alexander Pope seated at his desk, bust sculpture behind him. Pope, the 18th century English poet, was best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. The son of a linen-draper, Pope was first noticed by Jacob Tonson who published his 'Pastorals' in 1709. With 'The Rape of the Lock' (1712), and his translations of Homer, Pope became the most formidable literary figure of his day, with a large circle of both friends and enemies. Primarily a satirical poet and of unsurpassed metrical skill, he wrote 'what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed'. A friend of Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, part of Lord Burlington's circle, and famous in the history of landscape gardening for the grounds of his villa at Twickenham (particularly his 'grotto'), he was revered as one of the great personalities of the age.
[Ref: 27264] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
Alex. Pope.
A. Pond pinx. J. Stow sculp.
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, May 12 1794.
Engraving. Sheet: 310 x 410mm (12¼ x 16"). Trimmed to platemark.
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), poet, resting on his left arm on a table, looking to left, wearing open jacket and neckerchief. Rectangular frame, cameo of the god Apollo below. After Arthur Pond (1701 - 1758). NPG D19672. See: 39800
[Ref: 39806] £170.00
(£204.00 incl.VAT)
[The Muses Crowning the Bust of Pope.]
E. Maculer Sculp.t [after Angelica Kauffman]
[c.1785]
Stipple printed in sepia, sheet 145 x 190mm (5¾ x 7½"). Trimmed inside platemark; hole lower right outside image.
Three female figures in a park, one of whom holds a crown of laurels to be placed on a bust of the Augustan poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744). Copy in reverse of an engraving by P.W. Tomkins (after Angelica Kauffman) by the Paris-based engraver Maucler, who regularly pirated British prints for the continental market.
[Ref: 39844] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
Alexandre Pope. né a Londres le 6 Juin 1688, mort le 30 may 1744.
Kneller pinxit 1722. Marillier Ornam. del.
Le Beau Graveur de Mgr le Duc de Chartres. [n.d., c.1778.]
Engraving. Sheet: 195 x 120mm (7¾ x 4¾'').
A French portrait of English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744), set within an oval below which a satyr and cupid play around a plaque.
[Ref: 48657] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
Pope.
Sysang sc.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving, rare. Sheet: 145 x 85mm (5¾ x 3¼''). Trimmed.
A profile, bust of English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744).
[Ref: 48668] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
Alexander Pope. From the fine Original Bust by Rysbrack, in the Possession of W.m Seward Esq.r.
Drawn by J. Brown. Engraved by M.no Bovi, Pupil to F. Bartolozzi R.A.
London Publish'd by Mrs. Brown, at Mr Middleton's No. 162 Strand, Feb.y 1788.
Stipple. Plate: 360 x 285mm (14 x 11¼'') large margins. Creasing and marking.
A profile view of a bust of poet and writer Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744).
[Ref: 49045] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
[Alexander Pope.] [From the fine Original Bust by Rysbrack, in the Possession of W.m Seward Esq.r.]
[Drawn by J. Brown. Engraved by M.no Bovi, Pupil to F. Bartolozzi R.A.]
[London Publish'd by Mrs. Brown, at Mr Middleton's No. 162 Strand, Feb.y 1788.]
Stipple, proof before all letters. Plate: 315 x 240mm (12¼ x 9½''). Laid on album sheet at edges, foxing. Small margins.
A profile view of a bust of poet and writer Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744).
[Ref: 49046] £150.00
(£180.00 incl.VAT)
M.r Alexander Pope. Aet.s 28.
G. Kneller S.R.Imp. et Mag. Brit. Baronet.s Pinx. 1716. J. Smith fec. et ex. 1717.
Mezzotint, sheet 345 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate, glued on album sheet at edges. Repaired tear on right edge. Time stained.
Half length portrait of poet and writer Alexander Pope (1688-1744). Looking towards the right, wearing a cap, coat and open collar, with an open book in his hands and landscape of trees in the background. CS 203.II of III.
[Ref: 59381] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
The Muses Crowning the Bust of Pope.
Ang. Kauffman inv.t. P W Tomkins sculp.t Pupil of F. Bartolozzi.
Publish'd as the Act directs 1st of March 1783 by S.Watts Featherstone Buildings Holborn.
Stipple, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, glued on album sheet at edges. Slightly foxed.
Three female figures in a park, one of whom holds a crown of laurels to be placed on a bust of the Augustan poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744). The other two read from a volume at right with a lyre resting at the foot of the pedestal. Alexander 150. See Ref: 39844 for copy.
[Ref: 59384] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Alexander Pope, Poeta Anglus, Ob: A.o 1744 Aetat: 57.
[After Joseph Van Loo] Johannes Faber.
[P]rice 2 Shill Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square. [n.d. c.1750.]
Rare mezzotint, sheet 355 x 235mm (14 x 9¼"). Trimmed to plate losing part of the inscription and publication line, glued on album sheet at edges. Slightly damaged on image on left centre.
Three-quarter portrait of poet and writer Alexander Pope (1688-1744). Looking towards the right, with paper in his right hand and his left hand slightly pushing his wig back from his head. CS 294. II of II.
[Ref: 59391] £390.00
Alex.e Pope.
Peint en 1722 par Kneller, gravé par Will en 1745.
[n.d. c.1745.]
Engraving and etching. 75 x 127mm. 3 x 5". Trimmed to image, false margins added.
Alexander Pope, the 18th century English poet, was best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. The son of a linen-draper, Pope was first noticed by Jacob Tonson who published his 'Pastorals' in 1709. With 'The Rape of the Lock' (1712), and his translations of Homer, Pope became the most formidable literary figure of his day, with a large circle of both friends and enemies. Primarily a satirical poet and of unsurpassed metrical skill, he wrote 'what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed'. A friend of Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, part of Lord Burlington's circle, and famous in the history of landscape gardening for the grounds of his villa at Twickenham (particularly his 'grotto'), he was revered as one of the great personalities of the age.
[Ref: 27265] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)
Very faithfully yours Winthrop M. Praed [facsimile mss./signature.]
W.D. Lith.
London, Pub. June 1st. 1837, by Thos. McLean, Haymarket. Printed by J. Graf.
Lithograph on india paper, rare with wide margins, india 185 x 135mm. 7¼ x 5¼".
Portrait of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802 - 1839), poet. Poet, politician, and essayist; became a barrister in 1829, and an MP, 1830, secretary to the board of control under Peel, 1834; contributed numerous pieces of verse and prose to the periodical press which were published as collections after his death.
[Ref: 24084] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. Pratt. Author of Sympathy, Gleanings, the Poem on the Poor or Bread &c.&c.
J.J. Masquerier pinx.t C. Turner sculp.t
London. Published Feb.y 6.1802, by C. Turner, No.56 Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
A rare mezzotint. Plate 355 x 254mm. 14 x 10". Paper loss and tears to lower edge corners.
Samuel Jackson Pratt (1749-1814) the British author and poet; he wrote 'Emma Corbett, or the Miseries of Civil War' (1780) and 'Sympathy: A Poem' (1788). He also worked under the pseudonym Courtney Melmoth. Whitman: 481.
[Ref: 20194] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
Antoine Francois Prevost, Aumônier de S.A. Mgr. le Prince de Conte.
dessiné à Paris d'apres nature et Gravé à Berlin par G.F. Schmidt Graveur dy Roy en 1745.
Engraving. Plate: 230 x 175mm (9 x 7''). Large margins on 3 sides.
A portrait of French novelist and author Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles (1697-1763), also known as Abbé Prévost.
[Ref: 49121] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. Mathew Prior.
I. Richardson pinx 1718. Simon fecit et excudit.
[n.d. c.1718.]
Fine mezzotint. Mounted on an album page. Image 357 x 252mm. 14 x 10". Cut and laid on sheet. Some glue staining to the corners.
Matthew Prior (1664-1721) was an English poet and diplomat. On his father's death, he left school, and was cared for by his uncle, a vintner in Channel Row. Here Lord Dorset found him reading Horace, and set him to translate an ode. He did so well that the earl offered to contribute to the continuation of his education at Westminster. One of his schoolfellows and friends was Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax. It was to avoid being separated from Montagu and his brother James that Prior accepted, against his patron's wish, a scholarship recently founded at St John's College, Cambridge. He took his B.A. degree in 1686, and two years later became a fellow. In collaboration with Montagu he wrote in 1687 the City Mouse and Country Mouse, in ridicule of John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther. From the Belton House Collection assembled in the 18th Century by the Rt. Hon. John Ld. Brownlow, Baron Charleville, & Viscount Tyrconnel in the Kingdom of Ireland. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lenno
[Ref: 12849] £230.00
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To The Rt. Hon.ble Edward Earl of Oxford & Earl Mortimer, This Plate is humbly Dedicated by his Lordships most Obedient Ser.t Ja: Gibbs.
[Antoine Coysevox.] B. Baron Sculp.
[n.d. c.1720.]
Engraving. Plate 400 x 260mm. 15¾ x 10¼". Mint.
Matthew Prior (1664-1721) the poet, politician and diplomat is buried in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, where sits this monument by James Gibbs, and the bust by Antoine Coysevox. See NPG: D40754.
[Ref: 20070] £160.00
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Matthew Prior Esq.r
Jonath:n Richardson pinxit. Geo: Vertue Sculpsit.
1719.
Engraving. Plate 375 x 274mm. 14¾ x 10¾". Tearing and staining around the edges.
Matthew Prior (1664-1721) was an English poet and diplomat. On his father's death, he left school, and was cared for by his uncle, a vintner in Channel Row. Here Lord Dorset found him reading Horace, and set him to translate an ode. He did so well that the earl offered to contribute to the continuation of his education at Westminster. One of his schoolfellows and friends was Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax. It was to avoid being separated from Montagu and his brother James that Prior accepted, against his patron's wish, a scholarship recently founded at St John's College, Cambridge. He took his B.A. degree in 1686, and two years later became a fellow. In collaboration with Montagu he wrote in 1687 the City Mouse and Country Mouse, in ridicule of John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther. Alexander: 299.
[Ref: 20254] £140.00
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George Psalmanazar The Imposter.
[n.d.., c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet 135 x 95mm (5¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
George Psalmanazar (c.1679-1763), a Frenchman, passed himself off as the first visitor to Europe from Taiwan, even speaking an invented language. He assumed the name of 'George Psalmanazar' when he 'converted' to Christianity in 1702. Coming to London, he switched to Anglicanism and wrote ''An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an Island subject to the Emperor of Japan'' in 1704. After confessing the imposture in 1706 he went straight, learning Hebrew and co-authoring Samuel Palmer's 'A General History of Printing' (1732). He even contributed to A Complete System of Geography and wrote about the real conditions in Formosa, pointedly criticising the hoax he himself had perpetrated. In later life he became a friend of Samuel Johnson and wrote his autobiography, although even this did not reveal his real name.
[Ref: 53174] £95.00
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[Francis Quarles.] What here wee see is but a Graven face, Onely the shaddow of that brittle case Wherein were treasur'd up those Gems, which he hath left behind him to Posterity.
[William Marshall?]
[n.d. c.1650.]
Engraving, rare. 126 x 75mm. 5 x 3". Cut.
Portrait of Francis Quarles; half-length with shoulder-length curly hair, moustache and small beard, directed to right glancing towards the viewer, right hand outstretched holding a quill, left at his breast, wearing a dark coat edged with fur and fastened near the neck, a plain collar with a tassell tie; in an oval. Francis Quarles (1592-1644) was an English poet most famous for his Emblem book aptly entitled 'Emblems'. Based on the frontispiece to Quarles' 'Recantation', engraved by William Marshall, according to O'Donoghue.
[Ref: 24092] £120.00
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Francis Quarles.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Sheet: 95 x 60mm (3¾ x 2¼''). Trimmed and paper tone.
A half-length portrait of English poet Francis Quarles (1592-1644).
[Ref: 49097] £95.00
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François Rabelais. Docteur en Medecine Curé de Meudon né a Chinon en Touraine mort a Paris en 1553 agé a 70.ans. Rabelais ce Varron françois Dans son agreable Satire…Etoient eux meme plus exemts Des Vices qu'il y Satirise. Gacon.
Gravé par E. Desrochers. AParis rue de Foin pres la rue St.Iacques.
[n.d. c.1760.]
Copper engraving. Watermark. Plate 141 x 102mm (5½ x 4"). Large margins.
François Rabelais (1483-1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor and Renaissance humanist. He is known for his writings of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, and both bawdy jokes and songs. W: 2416.
[Ref: 15758] £80.00
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M.re Francois Rabelais. Docteur en Medecine Curee de Meudon lez Paris.
Moncornet ex. [n.d. c.1660.]
Engraving. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"). Red ruling on platemark. Small margins.
François Rabelais (c.1483-1553), French humanist and doctor but most important for his satirical writings, especially 'Gargantua and Pantagruel'. W: 2416-2.
[Ref: 53689] £80.00
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[Maria Louise Ramé] Ouida. The Whitehall Review. 5th October 1878.
Lithograph. Sheet. 390 x 265mm (15½ x 10½").
Sketch portrait of Maria Louise Ramé (1839-1908), author of over 40 novels written under the pseudonym 'Ouida', pictured with three dogs including a Maltese Terrier. Her most famous novel was 'A Dog of Flanders' written in 1872, regarded as a children's classic in the Far East. It was only translated into Dutch in 1987, published to help the Belgians cope with the flood of Japanese fans visiting the locations in the book, including Antwerp Cathedral.
[Ref: 48127] £70.00
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Regina's Maids of Honour.
[Daniel Maclise.]
[London: James Fraser, 1836.]
Scarce etching. Sheet 135 x 220mm (5¼ x 8¾").
A group portrait of women contibutors to 'Fraser's Magazine', published in that magazine as a counterpoint to the Maclise's 'Fraserians', a portrait of the male editors and contributors published in January that year. The women are (counter-clockwise from bottom left: Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.), Lady Sydney Morgan, Caroline Norton, Countess of Blessington (standing), Jane Porter, Harriet Martineau, Mary Russell Mitford and Mrs Samuel Carter Hall. This image is much smaller than male verson Ref: 51806. See The Victorian Web.
[Ref: 51805] £190.00
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Mr Will: Richards.
G: Kneller Pinx. I: Smith Fec: et ex:
[n.d., c.1688.]
Mezzotint. Plate: 235 x 190mm (9¼ x 7½''), with very large margins.
A portrait of William Richards (1643-1705) rector of Helmdon, Northamptonshire and author of ''Wallography or The British Described''. CS 211.
[Ref: 49187] £160.00
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[Samuel Richardson.] O Master of the Heart! whose magick skill / The close Recesses of the Soul can find [...]
Jos. Highmore pinx. Ja.s M.cArdell fecit.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Slight creasing.
Three-quarter length portrait of Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), author best known for his 'Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady' (1748), and printer of almost 500 works, including journals and magazines, including 'The Journals of the House' of Commons. The National Portrait Gallery has two portraits of Richardson painted by Joseph Highmore. CS 152, only state; Goodwin 161, ii of ii.
[Ref: 59082] £280.00
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