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Diversæ Avium Species studiossime ad vitam delineatæ Per Fra: Barlow Insignissimi: Anglum Pictorem.
F Barlow Invent. R. Gaywood fecit.
[n.d., c.1660.]
Etching, 17th century watermark. 155 x 180mm (6 x 7"), with large margins. Stitch holes in left margin.
The title page to Barlow's series 'Diversae avium species', one of the few plates not etched by Wenceslaus Hollar. The title is on a banner held up by two eagles.
[Ref: 64309] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
F Barlow Invent. R. Gaywood fecit.
[n.d., c.1660.]
Etching, 17th century watermark. 155 x 180mm (6 x 7"), with large margins. Stitch holes in left margin.
The title page to Barlow's series 'Diversae avium species', one of the few plates not etched by Wenceslaus Hollar. The title is on a banner held up by two eagles.
[Ref: 64309] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Jonah an Oratorio.]](jpegs/64277.jpg)
[Jonah an Oratorio.]
B.West. F.Bartolozzi Sculp.
Inv 1775.
Rare proof etching. Sheet 210 x 170mm (8¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed.
Proof for the title-page of music book of 'Jonah an Oratorio' by Samuel Felstead; Jonah, full-length, kneeling on ground, looking towards top left.
DeV 1873 II of IV
[Ref: 64277] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
B.West. F.Bartolozzi Sculp.
Inv 1775.
Rare proof etching. Sheet 210 x 170mm (8¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed.
Proof for the title-page of music book of 'Jonah an Oratorio' by Samuel Felstead; Jonah, full-length, kneeling on ground, looking towards top left.
DeV 1873 II of IV
[Ref: 64277] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![[Twelve Months.] Januarius. [&] Febuarius. [&] Martius. [etc]](jpegs/63465.jpg)
[Twelve Months.] Januarius. [&] Febuarius. [&] Martius. [etc]
Hamilton pinx. Gabrieli [& Bonato] sculp.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Set of twelve engravings. Each c.310 x 255mm (12½ x 10"), very large margins.
A set of ovals representing the Twelve Months, named in Latin and with lines from Ovid, including scenes of skating, angling, a may pole, harvesting, sheep-shearing hop-picking and chopping fire wood. Engraved by Amedeo Gabrielli and Pietro Bonato.
[Ref: 63465] £2,500.00 view all images for this item
Hamilton pinx. Gabrieli [& Bonato] sculp.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Set of twelve engravings. Each c.310 x 255mm (12½ x 10"), very large margins.
A set of ovals representing the Twelve Months, named in Latin and with lines from Ovid, including scenes of skating, angling, a may pole, harvesting, sheep-shearing hop-picking and chopping fire wood. Engraved by Amedeo Gabrielli and Pietro Bonato.
[Ref: 63465] £2,500.00 view all images for this item
![[Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell] The Sad Historian.](jpegs/64098.jpg)
[Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell] The Sad Historian.
John Bewick, del. et sculp.
Published January 1, 1804, by William Bulmer, at the Shakspeare Printing Office, Cleveland Row.
Wood engraving. Printed border 155 x 100mm (6 x 4"). Mounted in album paper.
An old woman wearing a broad-brimmed hat, cloak and tattered clothes, standing at the edge of a stream, poking with her stick in the shallows, gathering watercress. It illustrates 'The Deserted Village' in the 'Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell', first published 1795. John Bewick (1760-95) was the younger brother and apprentice of Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), from whom he learned wood engraving. He died the year this plate was first published.
See BM 1925,0305.9 for a proof.
[Ref: 64098] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
John Bewick, del. et sculp.
Published January 1, 1804, by William Bulmer, at the Shakspeare Printing Office, Cleveland Row.
Wood engraving. Printed border 155 x 100mm (6 x 4"). Mounted in album paper.
An old woman wearing a broad-brimmed hat, cloak and tattered clothes, standing at the edge of a stream, poking with her stick in the shallows, gathering watercress. It illustrates 'The Deserted Village' in the 'Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell', first published 1795. John Bewick (1760-95) was the younger brother and apprentice of Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), from whom he learned wood engraving. He died the year this plate was first published.
See BM 1925,0305.9 for a proof.
[Ref: 64098] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
![[Four illustrations from 'Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell']](jpegs/64103.jpg)
[Four illustrations from 'Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell'] The Departure. [&] The Traveller. [&] The Hermit at his Morning Devotion. [&] The Hermit, ANgel, and Guide.
R. Johnson, del. T. Berwick, sculp. [3] [&] T. Berwick, sculp.
Published January 1, 1804, by William Bulmer, at the Shakspeare Printing Office, Cleveland Row.
Four wood engravings mounted in one album sheet. largest printed border 155 x 100mm (6 x 4").
Four illustrations from the 'Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell', first published 1795, all engraved by Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), regarded as the 'founder of wood-engraving'. 'The Departure' shows a family leaving Goldsmith's 'Deserted Village'; 'The Traveller' illustrates Goldsmith's poem of the same title, the scene after John Thurston; and two scenes from Parnell's 'The Hermit'.
See BM: 1925,0305.1, 1882,0311.2878, 1925,0305.3 & 1925,0305.4.
[Ref: 64103] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
R. Johnson, del. T. Berwick, sculp. [3] [&] T. Berwick, sculp.
Published January 1, 1804, by William Bulmer, at the Shakspeare Printing Office, Cleveland Row.
Four wood engravings mounted in one album sheet. largest printed border 155 x 100mm (6 x 4").
Four illustrations from the 'Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell', first published 1795, all engraved by Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), regarded as the 'founder of wood-engraving'. 'The Departure' shows a family leaving Goldsmith's 'Deserted Village'; 'The Traveller' illustrates Goldsmith's poem of the same title, the scene after John Thurston; and two scenes from Parnell's 'The Hermit'.
See BM: 1925,0305.1, 1882,0311.2878, 1925,0305.3 & 1925,0305.4.
[Ref: 64103] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![[September.]](jpegs/64297.jpg)
[September.]
Paul Drury, fecit [pencil signature].
[London: Garton & Cooke, 1987.]
Etching, signed by the etcher, second edition, limited, 25/100 (only 80 for sale). 100 x 130mm (4 x 5"). With order form, prospectus and original invoice.
A woman and child collecting apples, oast houses behind. An authorised 2nd edition of an etching first published as a limited edition of 75 in 1928. Paul Drury (1903-1987), President of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers. He made some 92 prints of which about a half were portraits. According to the prospectus, 'This was the only plate, among his few pastoral Etchings, Drury felt unable to cancel'.
[Ref: 64297] £380.00
Paul Drury, fecit [pencil signature].
[London: Garton & Cooke, 1987.]
Etching, signed by the etcher, second edition, limited, 25/100 (only 80 for sale). 100 x 130mm (4 x 5"). With order form, prospectus and original invoice.
A woman and child collecting apples, oast houses behind. An authorised 2nd edition of an etching first published as a limited edition of 75 in 1928. Paul Drury (1903-1987), President of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers. He made some 92 prints of which about a half were portraits. According to the prospectus, 'This was the only plate, among his few pastoral Etchings, Drury felt unable to cancel'.
[Ref: 64297] £380.00