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Burns's Address to the Deil. illustrated by Landseer. (Sheet 1.)
Burns's Address to the Deil. illustrated by Landseer. (Sheet 1.) [&] (Sheet 2.)
[Engraved by Samuel Machin Slater, Charles Milton Gorway, Ebenezer Landells et al after Thomas Landseer] G.H. Davidson, Printer and Stereotyper, Tudor Street, Blackfriars.
London: - Published by G. Berger, Holywell Street, Strand; O. Hodgson, 10, Cloth Fair, West Smithfield; sold also at the Office of the Ladies' Penny Gazette, King Edward Street, New Bridge Street; and to be had, on order, of all Dealers of Periodicals.
Two sheets, with wood-engravings and letterpress. Sheets 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"). Both sheets with stains, '2' laid on album paper.
Two sheets with all 21 verses of Robert Burns' 'Addess to the Deil', illustrated with 10 fantastical wood engravings after Thomas Landseer, including a title and the Devil on horseback. The blocks were also used in book format.
See BM 1867,1214.448 for sheet 1, with references for book issues.
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[Over the hill and over the dale]
[Over the hill and over the dale]
Thomas Landseer
[n.d., c.1830.]
Etching on chine collé, proof before letters 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8").
The Devil in a cloud of smoke, flying across a rural landscape towards a city on the horizon in the rising sun. Proof illustration to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Devil's Walk'.
[Ref: 55439]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Gorilla Fight.
Gorilla Fight. He awoke the next Morning and found Himself Famous!!
London: Published by T. McLean 26 Haymarket [n.d., c.1860]
Four very scarce engraved plates in original wrappers, slim oblong folio, 215 x 285mm (8½ x 11¼"). Wrappers chipped and soiled, small tears and slight foxing to plates.
Attributed to William Makepeace Thackeray and possibly Thomas Landseer. The copy in the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists (Princeton University Library) has an additional leaf of letterpress and Thomas Landseer's name inscribed on the wrapper. Probably issued as a reaction against bare-knuckle prize fighting in Britain.
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