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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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A View in Port Jackson, New South Wales.
T. Webley Sculp.t. [after John White.]
Published by Alex.r Hogg, May 1, 1793.
Engraving. 195 x 260mm (7¾ x 10¼"). Edges toned.
Published in ''A New Royal System of Universal Geography'', this plate is an enlarged version of a vignette on the titlepage of John White's ''Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales'', attributed to White himself. White (c. 1756-1832) was principal naval surgeon for the voyage of the First Fleet to Australia in 1787.
[Ref: 44576] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
T. Webley Sculp.t. [after John White.]
Published by Alex.r Hogg, May 1, 1793.
Engraving. 195 x 260mm (7¾ x 10¼"). Edges toned.
Published in ''A New Royal System of Universal Geography'', this plate is an enlarged version of a vignette on the titlepage of John White's ''Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales'', attributed to White himself. White (c. 1756-1832) was principal naval surgeon for the voyage of the First Fleet to Australia in 1787.
[Ref: 44576] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
The Author and his Family Behold a Scene of real nat'ral Life, / A wretched Author with a Scolding Wife [...]
T. Webley Sculpsit
Published by C. Johnson [c.1793]
Rare engraving with 10pp letterpress, sheets 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
An author struggles to work in a modest interior (with map hanging on the wall), while around him are his 'scolding wife', a crying baby, two bailiffs chasing payment, children fighting over food and a printer with corrections to be made. Illustrating a lengthy 'letter to the editor' signed 'Z.Z.' setting out the predicament of a struggling writer. From the 'Wonderful Magazine', an entertaining but short-lived periodical founded in 1793 by the hack writer and bookseller Henry Lemoine (1756-1812). Given Lemoine's travails at the time of the magazine's publication (around this time he lent money to two booksellers who both defaulted, and Lemoine ended up in prison for his debt; he separated from his wife; and was forced to give up his bookstall and become a book-runner, collecting books and selling them to the trade).
[Ref: 39625] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
T. Webley Sculpsit
Published by C. Johnson [c.1793]
Rare engraving with 10pp letterpress, sheets 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
An author struggles to work in a modest interior (with map hanging on the wall), while around him are his 'scolding wife', a crying baby, two bailiffs chasing payment, children fighting over food and a printer with corrections to be made. Illustrating a lengthy 'letter to the editor' signed 'Z.Z.' setting out the predicament of a struggling writer. From the 'Wonderful Magazine', an entertaining but short-lived periodical founded in 1793 by the hack writer and bookseller Henry Lemoine (1756-1812). Given Lemoine's travails at the time of the magazine's publication (around this time he lent money to two booksellers who both defaulted, and Lemoine ended up in prison for his debt; he separated from his wife; and was forced to give up his bookstall and become a book-runner, collecting books and selling them to the trade).
[Ref: 39625] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)