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12 Old English Sports & Pastimes.
By Cecil Aldin.
London. Lawrence & Bullen, Limited [n.d., 1901.]
Portfolio, printed cover, flaps; twelve near mint colour plates, each 385 x 475mm (15¼ x 18¾") Portfolio worn, one plate with a tear in margin taped.
A very rare complete set of twelve satirical sporting scenes: Golf, Shooting, Racing, Hawking, Cricket, Coaching, Bowling, Fishing, Coursing, Skating, Curling & Hunting.
See Ref: 37827 for 'Golf'.
[Ref: 62518] £2,500.00 view all images for this item
By Cecil Aldin.
London. Lawrence & Bullen, Limited [n.d., 1901.]
Portfolio, printed cover, flaps; twelve near mint colour plates, each 385 x 475mm (15¼ x 18¾") Portfolio worn, one plate with a tear in margin taped.
A very rare complete set of twelve satirical sporting scenes: Golf, Shooting, Racing, Hawking, Cricket, Coaching, Bowling, Fishing, Coursing, Skating, Curling & Hunting.
See Ref: 37827 for 'Golf'.
[Ref: 62518] £2,500.00 view all images for this item
Etchings from Original Pictures in the Cleveland-House Gallery, Drawn, Etched, and Dedicated to the Marshioness of Stafford:
By her Ladyship's Porter [William Cantrill].
London: Published by Subscription. Price 12s. Printed by Law and Gilbert, St John's Square, Clerkenwell; and sold by Messrs. White and Co., Fleet Street; Clarke, New Bond Street; Ackermann, 101, Strand; Colnaghi, Cockspur-Street; and Molteno, Pall-Mall. 1812.
Large folio, 550 x 380mm (21½ x 15"), printed wrappers, letterpress dedication and six etched plates, with large margins, as called for, loose. With watermarks J. Whatman, Balston 1807, 1808, 1811. Minor staining to wrappers.
Six etchings (''first attempts from an untutored hand'' according to the dedication) after Old Master genre scenes in the collection of George and Elizabeth Leveson-Gower (infamous for their Highland clearances) in Cleveland House, Mayfair: three by David Teniers the younger, and one each by Antoine Le Nain, Jean Fyt and Quirijn van Brekelenkam.
See https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-2/cleveland-house for an extensive account of the series.
[Ref: 62514] £360.00 view all images for this item
By her Ladyship's Porter [William Cantrill].
London: Published by Subscription. Price 12s. Printed by Law and Gilbert, St John's Square, Clerkenwell; and sold by Messrs. White and Co., Fleet Street; Clarke, New Bond Street; Ackermann, 101, Strand; Colnaghi, Cockspur-Street; and Molteno, Pall-Mall. 1812.
Large folio, 550 x 380mm (21½ x 15"), printed wrappers, letterpress dedication and six etched plates, with large margins, as called for, loose. With watermarks J. Whatman, Balston 1807, 1808, 1811. Minor staining to wrappers.
Six etchings (''first attempts from an untutored hand'' according to the dedication) after Old Master genre scenes in the collection of George and Elizabeth Leveson-Gower (infamous for their Highland clearances) in Cleveland House, Mayfair: three by David Teniers the younger, and one each by Antoine Le Nain, Jean Fyt and Quirijn van Brekelenkam.
See https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-2/cleveland-house for an extensive account of the series.
[Ref: 62514] £360.00 view all images for this item