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Expectation. To bosom heaving & to Eyes that weep. / While lovers linger in a distant clime. / Fear multiplies the dangers of the deep / And expectation loads the wing of time. EW.
Designd by H.W. Bunbury Esq.r Engraved by J.R. Smith.
London Publishd Jan.r 1.1784 by J.R. Smith No.83 Oxford Street.
Stipple, printed in brown. 400 x 3602mm (15¾ x 14¼") very large margins. Some creasing in margins.
An oval scene of two young women sitting side by side at the edge of a grassy cliff overlooking the sea, worrying about their sailor beaus. D'Oench: 232. Frankau: 132.
[Ref: 60767] £320.00
The Flying Dutchman. Composed by John Parry. The Poetry by Richard Ryan.
Designed by John Parry. Lith. by J. Brandard. M. & N. Hanhart, Lith. Printers, 64 Charlotte St. Rathbone Sq.
London; D'Almaine & C.o Royal Piano Forte Saloon, 20, Soho Square.
Folio (360 x 270mm, 14¼ x 10¾"), lithographic cover & 7pp. engraved music sheets, letterpress ads on back cover. Disbound, wear and ink ownership inscription on cover. Bit tatty.
The cover depicts a ship in rough seas threatened by a ghostly pirate ship. The librettist, Richard Ryan (1797-1849), also produced the first Irish biographical dictionary, 'Biographia Hibernica, a Biographical Dictionary of the Worthies of Ireland, from the earliest periods to the present time in 1819 and 1821'. The Welsh composer John Parry (1776-1851) was commonly known by his bardic name Bardd Alaw and was also a harpist.
[Ref: 60739] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
Wreck'd and Saved. Descriptive Ballad Sung by M.r C. Bernard, in his Entertainment, ''La Bagatelle''.
Packer, & Griffin Lith. Stannard & Dixon.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 250 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾"). Trimmed into inscriptions.
A music sheet cover depicting a lifeboat being launched from a beach and rowed through rough seas towards a striken ship.
[Ref: 60738] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
Original Sketches, Drawn and Engraved on Stone.
By Henry Stretton, Esq.
Subscribers' Copies to be had of Mr. Paul Gauci, 9, North Crescent, Alfred Place; and of Mr. Worsfold, 161, Regent Street. [n.d., c.1840.]
Original blind-stamped cloth, titled in gilt on front board, hinges strained; title, dedication, list of 180 subscribers, 10 tinted lithographic plates, printed by Paul Gauci. With extra plate loosely inserted. Some spotting.
A collection of views drawn at Ramsgate, Ireland, Wales, Italy and Belgium. The extra plate is Stretton's 'A View of the Chateau of Weldene, at Seeverghem near Ghent as it was in the year 1300'. One of only 180 subscribers' copies of the book.
[Ref: 60832] £490.00
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