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![[Felix on the Bat] Forward!](jpegs/58718.jpg)
[Felix on the Bat] Forward!
Printed by C. Graf.
London: Bailey Brothers, Cornhill [n.d., c.1845.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾").
A portrait of a batsman driving a ball down, an illustration from 'Felix on the Bat' by Nicholas 'Felix' Wanostrocht (1804-76). A noted English gentleman cricketer, Wanostrocht played for Kent from 1830 until 1852, alongside Alfred Mynn, Fuller Pilch, William Hillyer and Ned Wenman. Besides writing this famous instruction book he invented a bowling machine called the 'Catapulta' (described in 'Felix') and batting gloves made from india rubber.
Abbey Life: 396, 'The only colour plate book prior to 1850 devoted to cricket'. See Ref: 42815 & 42814
[Ref: 58718] £320.00
Printed by C. Graf.
London: Bailey Brothers, Cornhill [n.d., c.1845.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾").
A portrait of a batsman driving a ball down, an illustration from 'Felix on the Bat' by Nicholas 'Felix' Wanostrocht (1804-76). A noted English gentleman cricketer, Wanostrocht played for Kent from 1830 until 1852, alongside Alfred Mynn, Fuller Pilch, William Hillyer and Ned Wenman. Besides writing this famous instruction book he invented a bowling machine called the 'Catapulta' (described in 'Felix') and batting gloves made from india rubber.
Abbey Life: 396, 'The only colour plate book prior to 1850 devoted to cricket'. See Ref: 42815 & 42814
[Ref: 58718] £320.00
![[Felix on the Bat] The Draw.](jpegs/58720.jpg)
[Felix on the Bat] The Draw.
Printed by C. Graf.
London: Bailey Brothers, Cornhill [n.d., c.1845.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾").
A portrait of a batsman guarding his wicket, an illustration from 'Felix on the Bat' by Nicholas 'Felix' Wanostrocht (1804-76). A noted English gentleman cricketer, Wanostrocht played for Kent from 1830 until 1852, alongside Alfred Mynn, Fuller Pilch, William Hillyer and Ned Wenman. Besides writing this famous instruction book he invented a bowling machine called the 'Catapulta' (described in 'Felix') and batting gloves made from india rubber.
Abbey Life: 396, 'The only colour plate book prior to 1850 devoted to cricket'. See Ref: 42815 & 42814
[Ref: 58720] £320.00
Printed by C. Graf.
London: Bailey Brothers, Cornhill [n.d., c.1845.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾").
A portrait of a batsman guarding his wicket, an illustration from 'Felix on the Bat' by Nicholas 'Felix' Wanostrocht (1804-76). A noted English gentleman cricketer, Wanostrocht played for Kent from 1830 until 1852, alongside Alfred Mynn, Fuller Pilch, William Hillyer and Ned Wenman. Besides writing this famous instruction book he invented a bowling machine called the 'Catapulta' (described in 'Felix') and batting gloves made from india rubber.
Abbey Life: 396, 'The only colour plate book prior to 1850 devoted to cricket'. See Ref: 42815 & 42814
[Ref: 58720] £320.00
Felix on the Bat; Being a Scientific Inquiry into the use of The Cricket Bat; Together with the History and Use of the Catapulta. Also the Laws of Cricket, as Revised by the Marylebone Club, 1845.
London: Baily Brothers, Cornhill MDCCCXLV [1845].
First Edition. 4to, original half morocco gilt with marbled boards, edges worn; title + pp.41, coloured litho. frontis. & 9 plates, 6 coloured, a few wood-engraved text illustrations. Some faint soiling, remains of ink library stamp on title, occasional ink mss. and spotting.
Nicholas 'Felix' Wanostrocht (1804-76), noted English gentleman cricketer, played for Kent from 1830 until 1852, alongside Alfred Mynn, Fuller Pilch, William Hillyer and Ned Wenman. Besides writing this famous instruction book he invented a bowling machine called the 'Catapulta', described and illustrated here, and batting gloves made from india rubber. According to Abbey this is 'The only colour plate book prior to 1850 devoted to cricket'. The illustrator was George Frederick Watts (1817-1904), who exhibited at the R.A. from 1837. The frontispiece is a visual pun: Felix is shown while standing on the back of a bat flying over a cricket pitch. Further original editions were published in 1850 & 1855.
Abbey Life: 396.
[Ref: 42814] £850.00 view all images for this item
London: Baily Brothers, Cornhill MDCCCXLV [1845].
First Edition. 4to, original half morocco gilt with marbled boards, edges worn; title + pp.41, coloured litho. frontis. & 9 plates, 6 coloured, a few wood-engraved text illustrations. Some faint soiling, remains of ink library stamp on title, occasional ink mss. and spotting.
Nicholas 'Felix' Wanostrocht (1804-76), noted English gentleman cricketer, played for Kent from 1830 until 1852, alongside Alfred Mynn, Fuller Pilch, William Hillyer and Ned Wenman. Besides writing this famous instruction book he invented a bowling machine called the 'Catapulta', described and illustrated here, and batting gloves made from india rubber. According to Abbey this is 'The only colour plate book prior to 1850 devoted to cricket'. The illustrator was George Frederick Watts (1817-1904), who exhibited at the R.A. from 1837. The frontispiece is a visual pun: Felix is shown while standing on the back of a bat flying over a cricket pitch. Further original editions were published in 1850 & 1855.
Abbey Life: 396.
[Ref: 42814] £850.00 view all images for this item
![[Felix on the Bat] Leg Half Volley.](jpegs/58719.jpg)
[Felix on the Bat] Leg Half Volley.
Printed by C. Graf.
London: Bailey Brothers, Cornhill [n.d., c.1845.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾").
A portrait of a batsman with his bat above his head, an illustration from 'Felix on the Bat' by Nicholas 'Felix' Wanostrocht (1804-76). A noted English gentleman cricketer, Wanostrocht played for Kent from 1830 until 1852, alongside Alfred Mynn, Fuller Pilch, William Hillyer and Ned Wenman. Besides writing this famous instruction book he invented a bowling machine called the 'Catapulta' (described in 'Felix') and batting gloves made from india rubber.
Abbey Life: 396, 'The only colour plate book prior to 1850 devoted to cricket'. See Ref: 42815 & 42814
[Ref: 58719] £320.00
Printed by C. Graf.
London: Bailey Brothers, Cornhill [n.d., c.1845.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾").
A portrait of a batsman with his bat above his head, an illustration from 'Felix on the Bat' by Nicholas 'Felix' Wanostrocht (1804-76). A noted English gentleman cricketer, Wanostrocht played for Kent from 1830 until 1852, alongside Alfred Mynn, Fuller Pilch, William Hillyer and Ned Wenman. Besides writing this famous instruction book he invented a bowling machine called the 'Catapulta' (described in 'Felix') and batting gloves made from india rubber.
Abbey Life: 396, 'The only colour plate book prior to 1850 devoted to cricket'. See Ref: 42815 & 42814
[Ref: 58719] £320.00
![[Nicholas 'Felix' Wanostrocht.]](jpegs/67035.jpg)
[Nicholas 'Felix' Wanostrocht.]
[George Frederick Watts] Printed by C. Graf.
London: Bailey Brothers, Cornhill [n.d., c.1845.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Framed, sight size 235 x 180mm (9¼ x 7"). Some restoration. Unexamined out of frame.
Eight portraits of a cricketer in different stances, half aligned obliquely, from an unknown publication. The same illustrations were published in larger format in 'Felix on the Bat; Being a Scientific Inquiry into the use of The Cricket Bat', by Nicholas 'Felix' Wanostrocht, a noted English gentleman cricketer who played for Kent from 1830 until 1852
[Ref: 67035] £320.00
[George Frederick Watts] Printed by C. Graf.
London: Bailey Brothers, Cornhill [n.d., c.1845.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Framed, sight size 235 x 180mm (9¼ x 7"). Some restoration. Unexamined out of frame.
Eight portraits of a cricketer in different stances, half aligned obliquely, from an unknown publication. The same illustrations were published in larger format in 'Felix on the Bat; Being a Scientific Inquiry into the use of The Cricket Bat', by Nicholas 'Felix' Wanostrocht, a noted English gentleman cricketer who played for Kent from 1830 until 1852
[Ref: 67035] £320.00
![[George Frederick Watts.]](jpegs/24133.jpg)
[George Frederick Watts.]
London, Published Dec.r 1.st 1887 by Robert Dunthorne, at The Rembrandt Head in Vigo Street, W.
Photogravure on chine collé. 330 x 247mm (13 x 9¾").
After a self-portrait. George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. He intended to form part of an epic symbolic cycle called the "House of Life", in which the emotions and aspirations of life would all be represented in an universal symbolic language.
See Ref: 23409 [unique proof mezzotint on chine collé touched by Watts with his initials bottom right]; Ref: 23410 [proof mezzotint on chine collé]; both are larger impressions.
[Ref: 24133] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
London, Published Dec.r 1.st 1887 by Robert Dunthorne, at The Rembrandt Head in Vigo Street, W.
Photogravure on chine collé. 330 x 247mm (13 x 9¾").
After a self-portrait. George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. He intended to form part of an epic symbolic cycle called the "House of Life", in which the emotions and aspirations of life would all be represented in an universal symbolic language.
See Ref: 23409 [unique proof mezzotint on chine collé touched by Watts with his initials bottom right]; Ref: 23410 [proof mezzotint on chine collé]; both are larger impressions.
[Ref: 24133] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![[George Frederick Watts.]](jpegs/23409.jpg)
[George Frederick Watts.]
[Charles William Campbell after George Frederrick Watts.]
[n.d., c.1885]
Unique proof mezzotint on chine collé touched by Watts with his initials bottom right, platemark 500 x 365mm (19½ x 14¼"). Paper missing top right, resulting in creasing to chine collé; foxing in margins.
Extremely rare touched proof of Charles William Campbell's engraving from the 1664 half-length self-portrait by George Frederick Watts (London, Tate Gallery). Watts has made correction to the print himself, and initialled the print in the lower right. One of the few prints by Campbell (1855-87), who studied mezzotint engraving with Hubert Herkomer. His total 'oeuvre' consisted of twelve finished and seven unfinished plates.
For another impression see ref. 23410.
[Ref: 23409] £2,500.00
[Charles William Campbell after George Frederrick Watts.]
[n.d., c.1885]
Unique proof mezzotint on chine collé touched by Watts with his initials bottom right, platemark 500 x 365mm (19½ x 14¼"). Paper missing top right, resulting in creasing to chine collé; foxing in margins.
Extremely rare touched proof of Charles William Campbell's engraving from the 1664 half-length self-portrait by George Frederick Watts (London, Tate Gallery). Watts has made correction to the print himself, and initialled the print in the lower right. One of the few prints by Campbell (1855-87), who studied mezzotint engraving with Hubert Herkomer. His total 'oeuvre' consisted of twelve finished and seven unfinished plates.
For another impression see ref. 23410.
[Ref: 23409] £2,500.00
![[George Frederick Watts]](jpegs/23410.jpg)
[George Frederick Watts]
[Charles William Campbell after George Frederrick Watts]
[n.d., c.1885]
Proof mezzotint on chine collé. 500 x 365mm (19½ x 14¼"). Full margins.
A half-length self-portrait by painter and sculptor George Frederick Watts (1817-1904), painted in 1864 and now in the Tate Gallery. One of the few prints by Campbell (1855-87), who studied mezzotint engraving with Hubert Herkomer. His total 'oeuvre' consisted of twelve finished and seven unfinished plates.
For a proof touched by Watts himself see ref. 23409
[Ref: 23410] £450.00
[Charles William Campbell after George Frederrick Watts]
[n.d., c.1885]
Proof mezzotint on chine collé. 500 x 365mm (19½ x 14¼"). Full margins.
A half-length self-portrait by painter and sculptor George Frederick Watts (1817-1904), painted in 1864 and now in the Tate Gallery. One of the few prints by Campbell (1855-87), who studied mezzotint engraving with Hubert Herkomer. His total 'oeuvre' consisted of twelve finished and seven unfinished plates.
For a proof touched by Watts himself see ref. 23409
[Ref: 23410] £450.00