Grosvenor Prints

Napoleon.
Painted by Count D'Orsay. Engraved by C.E. Wagstaff. Printed by M.cQueen.
London Published June 10, 1847, for the Proprietor, by Robert Jennings, 62, Cheapside.
Scarce mixed-method engraving. 475 x 350mm (18¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate, marks in borders.
Three-quarter length portrait of Napoleon, wearing dress uniform with sash and decorations, his right hand tucked into his jacket, his left holding his hat against his hip.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65696] £320.00

[Ap]otheosis of the Corsican-Phoenix. "When the Phoenix is tired of Life, he builds a Nest upon the Mountains, and setti[ng] it on Fire by the wafting of his own Wings - he perishes Himself in the Flames! and from the smoke of his Ashes Arises a new Phoenix to illuminate the World!!! Vide The New Spanish Encyclopedia Edit.
[J.s G]illray inv.t & fec.t.
Publishd - August 2d 1808 - by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street
Coloured etching, fresh colour. Sheet 350 x 240mm (13¾ x 9½"). Trimmed within image at sides, into plate elsewhere, losing part of title and inscriptions, laid on album paper.
Napoleon as a phoenix, setting fire to his nest, which is a globe showing the Mediterranean countires, resting on muskets on a pinnacle labled 'Pyrenean Mountains'. His face has a look of terror; his claws open, dropping a sceptre and orb, as his crown falls from his head. Napoleon's Spanish venture is prophetically depicted as his self-immolation.
BM Satires 11007.
[Ref: 68947] £480.00

Napoleon late Emperor of France. [&] Maria Louisa late Empress of France.
I. Isabey Pinx. H. Meyer Sculp.t.
[n.d, c.1815.]
Pair of fine & decorative colour-printed stipples. Each c. 165 x 100mm (6½ x 4"). Trimmed and laid on album page with seven other portraits.
A collection of nine portraits, six of Napoleon, two of Marie Louise of Austria and one of Josephine.
[Ref: 64013] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

General Buonaparte.
[n.d., c.1795.]
Stipple, proof before title, rare. Sheet 160 x 105mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed.
An oval portrait of Napoleon in relatively-plain uniform, probably celebrating his success as an artillery commander of the republican forces at the siege of Toulon, which led to his promotion to brigadier general aged only 24. As he is unrecognisable it is probably an early portrait, as the publishers seem to think that no one would question the inaccuracy.
[Ref: 36050] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Bonaparte à la bataille d'Arcole le 27 Brumaire an V.
Peint par Le-Gros. Gravé à Milan par J. Longhi 1798.
[Later impression c.1860.]
Engraving, printed in colours. 480 x 330mm (19 x 13"), on laid paper.
The famous painting of the young Napoleon at the Battle of Arcole in 1796 by Antoine Jean Gros (Baron Gros). Bonaparte advances, sword in one hand, standard in the other, wearing an embroidered coast.
[Ref: 63023] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Double portrait of Napoleon] [Fac Simile d'un Dessin de Girodet-Trioson, fait d'après nature à la Chapelle de l'Empereur, le 8 Mars 1812.]
[G. Maile sc.]
[Published by R.G. Jones 34 Brewer Street Golden Square London October 1827.]
Mezzotint, very scarce proof before etched border and letters. Sheet 305 x 255mm (12 x 10"). Trimmed to plate.
Double portrait of Napoleon, after a drawing by Anne-Louis Girodet (1767-1824), who was closely associated with the emperor. He was commissioned to paint an allegory based on James Macpherson's Ossianic legends for Napoleon's country retreat at Malmaison, while Vivant Denon commissioned him to paint Napoleon receiving the keys to Vienna and the Revolt at Cairo (both now in Versailles). In 1812 he was commissioned to paint 36 portraits of Napoleon in his Coronation Robes for the Imperial Courts and had completed 26 by 1814, but the following year Napoleons abdicated for the final time and Girodet came into a considerable inheritance. Thereafter his output decreased.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. For Girodet's 'Napoleon receiving the keys to Vienna' see ref. 30836.
[Ref: 65217] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

N. Bonaparte 1er Consul de la République Française.
Peint par Bacler Dalbe. Gravé par Mercoli fils.
Déposé à la Bibliothèque Nationale. Se vend à Paris chez Bacler Dalbe Ingenieur Géographe rue des Moulins No.542 au coin de la rue Thérèse [n.d., 1800].
Rare stipple. Sheet 510 x 395mm (20 x 15¼"). Trimmed to plate, some creasing and restoration.
Oval bust portrait of a young Napoleon wearing an embroidered jacket, published shortly after he seized power in the coup of 18 Brumaire (10th November 1799). According to the BM the print was deposited on 19 April 1800.
BM: 1850,0211.125.
[Ref: 58102] £480.00

Le Général Bonaparte franchissant les Alpes. Dédié à Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon III par ses très humbles & très respectueux Serviteurs Goupil & C.ie.
Peint par Paul Delaroche. Gravè par Alph.se François.
London. Published October 1.st 1852, by P.&D. Colnaghi & C.o, 13 & 14, Pall Mall East. Berlin. Verlag von Goupil & c.ie. Imprimé par Goupil & C.ie à Paris.
Rare steel engraving on india paper, 710 x 515mm (28 x 18"). Trimmed to plate, creases on top left corner.
A portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte leading his army through the Alps on a mule, a journey Napoleon and his army made in the spring of 1800 to surprise the Austrian army in Italy. The original painting by Paul Delaroche was inspired by Jacques-Louis David's series of five paintings of Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1801–1805).
[Ref: 59608] £480.00

[Napoleon Bonaparte.]
Charlet Pinx.t. S.W. Reynolds Grav. du Roi d'Ang.re sculp.t.
à Paris chez Schroth Editeur rue St Honoré No 353 bis London published february 1829 by Rittner, 8 Surrey St., Strand.
Rare mezzotint. 385 x 290mm (15 x 11½") very large margins. Publisher's blindstamp below image, some surface soiling.
Full-length portrait of Napoleon, standing, one hand inside his waistcoat, in a landscape, probably St Helena. The artist, Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet (1792-1845), was originally a soldier (he distinguished himself in the defence of Clichy in 1814) before losing his commission upon the restoration of the monarchy and turning to painting. He specialised in Napoleonic scenes, which made him popular with the opposition under the Restoration and influential in the propagation of a mythic view of the Napoleonic era. Engraved by the leading British printmaker S.W. Reynolds, who also worked in Paris.
Whitman 204, unrecorded state between i and ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64747] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Bonchurch Village, Isle of Wight.
Drawn by R.B. Harraden. Engraved by R. Havell.
Published by R. Harraden & Son. Cambridge 1814.
Fine hand coloured aquatint, sheet 390 x 500mm. 15¼ x 19¾". Small chips to extremities.
An impressive and attractive view. After Richard Harraden (1756 - 1838).
British Library: 004806437.
[Ref: 15845] £360.00

[Part of Bonchurch.]
[T.Malton fecit.]
[Pub.d as the Act Directs, Decr. 30 1785 by T.Malton, N.6 Conduit Street, Hanover Square, and to be had of W.Hinton, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill.]
Aquatint with original hand colour. Image size 195 x 285mm. Trimmed to image & laid on card
From a series of at least six views in the Isle of Wight. Rare.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 4038] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Part of Bonchurch.
T.Malton fecit.
Pub.d as the Act Directs, Decr. 30 1785 by T.Malton, N.6 Conduit Street, Hanover Square, and to be had of W.Hinton, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill.
Aquatint, printed in sepia. 230 x 305mm.
From a series of at least six views in the Isle of Wight. Rare.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 4039] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Bart: K.C.H. Lieuenant Governor of Upper Canada, &c &c &c From an Original Picture painted at the solicitation of the Inhabitants of the City of Toronto This Plate is reprectfully dedicated to Her Most Gracious Majesty's Loyal Canadian Subjects by their fellow Citizens & most ob. hum.le Serv.t Frederick Chase Capreol
Painted by Nelson Cook Esq.re Engraved by C. Turner A.R.A.
Published Sept.r 1. 1837, by Fred C. Capreol Toronto, Upper Canada & in London for the Proprietor by Messrs Dominic Colnaghi & Co. Printsellers, 14 Pall Mall East & Mr. Leggatt, Printseller, 85 Cornhill.
Mezzotint. Plate: 390 x 290mm (15½ x 11½").
Francis Bond Head (1793-1875). A soldier in the British Army from 1811 to 1825, he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada in 1835. In 1837 he quashed a brief rebellion in Toronto led by William Lyon Mackenzie, the first mayor of Toronto.
[Ref: 38087] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Bond Street Bucks & Keen Countryman. Two Bond Street loungers discoursing in Piccadilly, one of them said, he wish'd much to go into the Country, upon which the other made the following observation: / "In the Country, my Friend there is nought to be seen, / "But an Ass on a Common, or a Goose on a Green." / A countryman passing at the time, pronounced the following impromptu: / "There would be in the Country them things to be seen / "Were you on a Common your Friend on a Green''.
Published 20.th Aug.t 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Coloured etching with stipple. 200 x 250 (8 x 9¾"), with wide margins.
A conversation outside a bookshop on the corner of Bond Street and Piccadilly.
BM Satires 10356.
[Ref: 54414] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

A Bond Street Lounger Recently Detected. Sir you've stole my Gown here it is under your Hat...
Publish'd Nov.r 18 1802 by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Etching. Sheet 200 x 235mm (8 x 9¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Caught by his landlady with her gown under his hat, the lodger tries to laugh it off as a prank. However a painting on the rear wall, 'View of Port Jackson', reminds the viewer that penal transportation to Australia was a common penalty for such petty theft.
[Ref: 54355] £320.00

The Vicar of Bond Street.
Pubd. by H. Humphrys Bond St April. 9th 1791.
Hand coloured etching, 170 x 125mm. 6¾ x 5". Fine. Slightly stained; glued to album page.
A plainly dressed man with crudely etched legs walks in profile to the right. 'The Rev. Mr. Newman, Vicar of Bond Street ... in the diocese of John Stockdale, Bishop of Piccadilly' is mentioned in a note to 1. 79 of the verse satire, 'Imperial Epistle to Kien Long ...' 1795, by T. J. Mathias. This would seem to imply a pamphleteer.
BM Satires: 7963.
[Ref: 13073] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

No. 1. From an Original Drawing of the same size by Dan.l Bond.
Pye sculpsit.
London, published March 1st 1796, by B.B. Evans, in the Poultry and Colnaghi & C.o Pall Mall.
Rare etching. 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"), with very large margins.
A ruined church on a countryside hill, with travellers in the foreground. Daniel Bond (c.1725-1803), painter and japanner, the first of the Birmingham School of landscape artists.
[Ref: 60729] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Bone of Contention. "Chu Chunky of Notts" "Comedian of Notts". The property of Her Grace The Duchess of Newcastle.
Kate Beard 1915 [signed and dated in plate.]
Published by Art Engraving Department, Spratt's Patent Limited London, E.C.3 1924.
Large photogravure on india paper with some colour added by hand, 375 x 460mm. 14¾ x 18". A fine impression with wide margins. Mint.
Two wire haired fox terriers facing each other inside a kennel, a joint of meat on the floor between them.
[Ref: 23439] £350.00

A Bone of Contention. "Chu Chunky of Notts" "Comedian of Notts". The property of Her Grace The Duchess of Newcastle.
Kate Beard 1915 [signed and dated in plate.]
Published by Art Engraving Department, Spratt's Patent Limited London, E.C.3 1924.
Large photogravure on india paper, 375 x 460mm. 14¾ x 18". A fine impression with wide margins. Mint.
Two wire haired fox terriers facing each other inside a kennel, a joint of meat on the floor between them.
[Ref: 23449] £360.00

Henry Bone RA [facsimile.]
H. Corbould del. Thomson sculp.
London Published for the Proprietors of the European Magazine, by Lupton Relfe 13 Cornhill, May 1st. 1822.
Stipple, india proof. Plate 241 x 140mm. 9½ x 5½". Uncut.
Henry Bone (1755-1834), was an enamel painter who he moved from Cornwall to London in 1779 where he worked on jewellery designs and the enamelling of watches and fans. He began to exhibit miniatures at the Royal Academy in 1781. He executed many beautiful miniature pieces of much larger size than had been attempted before in England. Among them are copies of eighty-five portraits painted during the time of Queen Elizabeth I that are considered among his greatest works.
[Ref: 18946] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[H. Bone Esq.r R.A.]
[G.H. Harlow pinx.t. F.C. Lewis sculp.t. ]
[London, Published by G. Lawford, Saville Place Decr. 1st. 1824.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters. 220 x 180mm (8½ x 7"), with large margins. Faint printer's crease in inscription area.
Henry Bone (1755-1834), enamel painter who began to exhibit miniatures at the Royal Academy in 1781.
[Ref: 61632] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Theophilus Bonetus. D.M.
[n.d. 1700.]
Engraving. 290 x 175mm (11½ x 7") Trimmed. Some faint staining in the title area.
A portrait of Theophile Boneti (1620-89) seated at a desk and surrounded by piles and shelves of books. He holds a quill, suspended above the page, near an ink pot in one hand and an hourglass in the other. A skeleton with a scythe stands at the open door. Published as the frontis piece to his complete works "Sepulchretum" on all known surgical., medical and pharmacological knowledge at the time, published as three volumes.
Wellcome: 353-2
[Ref: 57214] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Mrs. Bonfoy.]
J. Reynolds pint. J. McArdell fecit.
Published'd according to Act of Parliament [n.d., c.1755].
Mezzotint. 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, bottom left inscription area rebuilt, marks over inscription line, small crease.
The published state ot this portrait of Lady Ann Bonfoy (1729-1810), unusually still untitled. The daughter of Richard Eliot of Port Eliot, Cornwall, Anne married to a captain in the Royal Navy, Hugh Bonfoy (c1720-1762) in November 1751. They had one daughter together before he died in 1762, also Ann, who married the First Earl of Ely. The elder Ann was Lady of the Bedchamber to the daughters of George III. Reynolds had painted a group portrait of the Eliot family in 1746, before his departure for Italy. This was one of the first of his portrait to be engraved in mezzotint.
CS 23, Goodwin 44, Hamilton p.84. The oil is in the Box Gallery, Plymouth.
[Ref: 63536] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Richard Parkes Bonington.]
[Charles Damour.]
[n.d., c.1852.]
Aquatint. Sheet: 130 x 100mm (5 x 4''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet with the collector's stamp of Alfred Beurdeley.
A portrait of Romantic landscape painter Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828). Frontispiece to 'Oeuvres inédités de Bonington' 1852.
[Ref: 48674] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

R. P. Bonington.
Drawn on Stone by J. D. Harding from a Picture by Margaret Carpenter.
Published, Aug. 1st, 1829, by J. Carpenter & Son, Old Bond Street. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Fine & rare lithograph on india. 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"). Laid on album paper at edges.
Portrait of Richard Parkes Bonington (1802 - 1828), English Romantic landscape painter. His bust to front, with short dark hair, dark jacket over white shirt; after Carpenter; frontispiece to the series; finished state. Lettered below image with facsimile of sitter's autograph.
[Ref: 63201] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The Siege of Bonn.] Die Eroberung der Vestung Bonn.
Georg Phil. Rugendas. Abraham Drentwett Ornam: del. Ioh: August Corvinus Sculpsit.
Cum Gratia et Privileg: Sac: Caes: Majest: Ieremias Woldd excudit, Aug: Vind: [n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet: 420 x 380mm (16½ x 15"). Trimmed, vertical crease.
A scene showing the Siege of Bonn in 1703 in which the allies laid siege to Bonn which was held by the French. The scene is decorated with a ornate border, with a plan of the battle above. A plate from 'Repraesentatio belli ob successionem in Regno Hispanico...' published by Wolff.
[Ref: 42971] £340.00

Dame Jouant de la Guitarre.
R. Bon. del.
[n.d. c.1670-1693]
Engraving, sheet 245 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed and laid on album paper at corners.
One of a series of fashion prints from the, 'Recueil des modes de la cour de France.' A woman in high soceity attire, known as a 'Dame de Qualite,' playing a guitar, a popular instrument in the court of Louis XIV. By Robert Bonnart (1652 - 1733), painter and engraver who studied under Van der Meulen. Son of Henri I Bonnart, and one of four brothers whose work in fashion and costume is inextricably bound together.
[Ref: 68707] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Gentil-homme jouant de la Harpe. En agitant mes doigt, fur ce graue Instrument, Du seul pincer Je puis...
N.Bonnart sculp. et ex. cum privil. Rue St Jacques à l'Aigle
[n.d. c.1800]
Rare & fine engraving 265 x 190mm (10½ x 7½"), with very large margins.
Man seated on an ornate chair in fashionable costume playing a harp.
[Ref: 63084] £390.00

[Francis de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguieres] Franciscus de Lesdiguieres Comes Stabuli [...]
[1660]
Engraving with accompanying letterpress sheet, each 470 x 350mm (18½ x 13¾"), with very large margins. Foxed.
Francis de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguieres (1543-1626), one of the greatest generals of his age. A protestant who came of age during the French Wars of Religion, Lesdiguieres distinguished himself both in France and in the ongoing wars in Italy. From 'Les Portraits des Hommes Illustres Francois qui sont Peints dans la Galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu' (1660). The book reproduces the portraits of great men hanging in Richelieu's 'Galerie des hommes illustres' by Simon Vouet and Philippe de Champaigne (although only four of the original paintings survive). The final 'illustrious figure' was Richelieu himself.
[Ref: 39898] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Bishop Bonner.
[n..d, c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 80 x 155mm (7 x 10"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
A half-length satirical portrait in oval of Edmund Bonner (c. 1500-1569), Bishop of London 1539-49 and 1553-59, raising a willow switch above his head. This image is a detail from a scene of him punishing a heretic from 'Foxe's Book of Martyrs' (1563). Bonner originally supported Henry VIII's schism from Rome but, in the reign of Edward VI, opposed the king's role as head of the Church, for which he was removed from office and imprisoned in the Marshalsea, a prison in Southwark. He was restored by Mary I and began persecuting Protestants, earning the nickname 'Bloody Bonner'. Elizabeth sent him back to the Marshalsea in 1560, where he remained until he died.
Not recorded in Clayton, perhaps a connection to James Gillray.
[Ref: 68197] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Le Bonnet Vert. From the original Picture. Painted by D. Teniers Jun.r in the Possession of Jeremiah Harman Esq.r Drawn by T.W. Strutt and Engraved with permission by R.t Cooper.
London. Published Novr. 1. 1813, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, J. White, Cadell and Davies, and P.W. Tomkins,. No.54 New Bond Street.
Etching and stipple on india. Sheet 420 x 318mm (16½ x 14½"). Slight foxing
Tavern interior with three men sitting on the left, the nearest lighting his pipe, a cap hanging on the back of his chair, another leaning back in his chair and exhaling smoke, the third between them, leaning forward as he smokes; a group playing cards in front of the hearth in right background; after David Teniers the Younger.
[Ref: 52388] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Bonnet (Botaniste, Zoologiste et Philosophe), Membre Correspondant de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris. Né à Genève le 13 Mars 1720, Mort le 20 Mai 1792.
Dessiné et Gravé d’après J. Juel par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple. 214 x 152mm (8½ x 6"). Cut top & bottom.
Charles Bonnet (1720-1793) the Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer. In 1760 he described a condition, now referred to as Charles Bonnet Syndrome, in which vivid, complete visual hallucinations occur in psychologically normal people.
W: 356-2.
[Ref: 29587] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Bonnet. This eminent naturalist was born at Geneva in 1720, in a family originally from France; but, disliking dry grammatical studies, his father provided him with a domestic tutor...Public honours were rendered to his remains by his fellow citizens, and his funeral eulogy was pronounced by his illustrious friend and kinsman M. de Saussure.
Holl sculp.t
[n.d. c.1800.]
Stipple with letterpress text underneath portrait. Sheet 246 x 152mm (9¾ x 6").
Charles Bonnet (1720-1793) the Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer, born at Geneva.
Wellcome: 556 (not in).
[Ref: 28751] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Bono Eventui.
Fran. Bartolozzi sculp.
[Padova, 1752.]
Etching and engraving, very fine. 140 x 108mm. 5½ x 4¼". Large margins, very slight foxing.
A nude man placing an object on a pedestal. From: "Della Letteratura Italiana, de M. Foscarini, Padova, 1752. Cinq médailles entourées de cadres formés de dauphins, rubans, branches d'arbres, etc".
De Vesme: 1454 II of II..
[Ref: 20602] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Reinerus Bontius Medicinæ Professor.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Sheet 130 x 90mm, 5 x 3½". Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Reinius Bontius (1576-1623), professor of medicine at Leiden University.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 16266] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

This Book Belongs to [ *** ]. If thou art borrowed by a friend [...]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Bookplate, letterpress with wood-engraved border, 75 x 45mm (3 x 1¾"). Laid on album paper, some staining.
[Ref: 62423] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

Bookbinder.
London, Published by Tabart & Co Oct. 23. 1804.
Engraving, with 3 sheets of letterpress. Sheet: 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½''). Slight foxing.
A scene in a bookbinder's workshop showing him at his desk.
[Ref: 51151] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

New Book Club. Rules. Allowed for Reading, 10 [ink] Days. Fine for keeping a Book beyond the Time, Twopence per Day. Sixpence Fine for omitting to date. No Member is allowed to lend a Book belonging to the Society. [List of names.] Not to be detained by the last Reader beyong the Time.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Letterpress, pen and ink, rare. 186 x 114mm (7¼ x 14½").
A piece of ephemera; a list of readers belonging to a private book club. Beside each name the reader has dated for 'received' and 'sent away'. In ink at the top, it is noted 'Banbury' with Cape of Good Hope.
[Ref: 30400] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Some Caricatures of Book-Collectors. An Essay.
By A.N.L. Munby.
Printed for private circulation by William H. Robinson Ltd. 16 Pall Mall, London, S.W. 1. Christmas 1948.
Very rare 8vo, soft covers; pp. 31, with 8 illustrated labels. Slightly creased cover.
A selection of caricatures of book collectors.
[Ref: 59851] £70.00

A Book of Beasts Drawn from Nature, by M. Oudri, & Grav'd by P.Garon .
Printed & Publish'd Aug.t 1750, by J. Rocque Land Surveyer, Charing Cross.
Etching. Sheet: 195 x 260mm (7¾ x 10¼").
The frontispiece to a drawing book of animals showing the rear of a horse, demonstrating the technique of foreshortening.
[Ref: 45929] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

In presenting ''My Book of Curs,'' the Artist hopes to cur-ry favor with his friends [...]
[by Robert Richard Scanlan.]
[n.d., 1840.]
Large 4to, lithographic title and 45 caricatures printed on chine collé on 23 sheets. Front board detached, some staining, a few tears.
A rare collection of anthropomorphic satires of dogs with human attributes.
[Ref: 59205] £750.00 view all images for this item

The Book of Trades; or, Circle of the Useful Arts.
Glasgow: Printed for Richard Griffin and Co., Thomas Tegg & Son, London; Tegg, Wise, & Tegg, Dublin; and J. & S.A. Tegg, Sydney, Australia. MDCCCXXXV [1835].
8vo (140 x 115mm. 5½ x 4½".), with original marbled board coveres and calf spine. Spine detached.
First edition with engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title page, 19 plates (including the frontispiece), and numerous woodcut illustrations. The aim of this book is to illustrate at length one or two of each class of trade and manufacture and thus explain the principles applicable to all. The author presents an account of 'those arts by which the various wants of civilised society are supplied, and of those manufactures upon which commerce depends, in such a form, as, while it instructs, will also attract the youthful mind'. The book is organised into the following chapters: arts relative to the supply of food; arts relative to providing shelter; arts relative to clothing; arts relative to traveling; arts relative to the mineral kingdom; the liberal arts.
[Ref: 22109] £350.00

Tales. Botany. G. Nicholson's Lithography.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph. Sheet 160 x 160mm (6¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
A topographical caprice, with trees, woodland flowers and beehives, with a stack of three books titles as above. A fourth is held open by the ribbon of a medal labelled 'Ordre de Merite'.
[Ref: 38078] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Booker's Tower. Guilford. Erected 1839.
Sketched & Drawn on Stone by E.C. Duncumb. Printed by W. Clerk, 202 High Holborn.
Published by E. Andrews, 61 High St. Guilford.
Lithograph. Sheet: 280 x 225mm (11 x 9"), with very large margins.
A view of Booker's tower built by mayor of Guilford, Charles Booker in memory of his sons completed in 1839 it was used to commemorate the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. It was also used by scientist John Rand Capron in his experiments with light.
[Ref: 43664] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Unidentified bookplate.]
G. Haines Delin. W.H. Toms Sculp. 1752.
Engraved bookplate, part 18th century watermark. 160 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½") very large margins. Two tears in left margin, old ink mss. in bottom margin.
The ink manuscript describes the armorial as 'Sterne's arms', probably because of the bird above; however, although Laurence Sterne's arms is surmounted by a starling, they also include a chevron between three crosslets flory sable. Certainly these trophies appear to be too martial for a writer.
[Ref: 45252] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Bookplate] Robert Bateman Carlisle.
T. Macdonald, Sc.
Nov. 1896.
Engraved ex-libris bookplate, 80 x 105mm. 3¼ x 4¼". Wide margins.
A highly decorative antiquarian's/collector's bookplate, the name on a shield with allegorical figures holding banners either side, in clouds, in an oval. Robert Bateman catalogued the Carlisle Museum collection in 1894. Quote from the poet John Denham below image.
[Ref: 16871] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Bookplate] Wm. Boycott 1761.
Engraved armorial ex-libris bookplate on laid paper, 105 x 80mm. 4¼ x 3¼". Vertical and horizontal crease.
A highly decorative rococo bookplate.
[Ref: 12988] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Manchester Subscription Library. No. _ . _ Days allow'd. Forfeit _ d.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraved bookplate. Sheet 95 x 65mm. Trimmed to image. Ink mss "Days" & "Forfeit" added.
The bookplate depicts the inside of a library. The Manchester Subscription Library published two catalogues, the main catalogue in 1818, with an Addenda in 1831, with a list of 400 subscribers in total.
[Ref: 724] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

On the Making and Issuing of Books.
By Charles Thomas Jacobi, Manager of the Chiswick Press.
London: Made at the Chiswick Press and Issued from the Bodley Head, by Elkin Mathews, Vigo St. W. MDCCCXCI [1891].
Limited edition of 435. 8vo, Japanese vellum backed boards; pp. (xi)+70+(6), wood engraved decorations throughout. Spine worn, one gathering lose.
A guide to book publishing, including a page illustrating proofing symbols and a glossary of terms.
[Ref: 37999] £60.00 view all images for this item

A Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century British Topographical Books with Steel Engravings.
Merlyn Holloway.
Holland Press Ltd. London. 1977.
Book: 4to ( 241 x 182mm). pp v-vii + 206. Cloth binding. Dust jacket a little creased along spine and slightly dirty. Binding in tact.
A listing of steel engravings in British topographical works.
[Ref: 10130] £30.00

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