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![[Eight satires as playing cards.]](jpegs/53493.jpg)
[Eight satires as playing cards.] 7. The Sea Lyon. [&] 14. Mons.r Dupe. [&] 15. Mons.r Surecard. [&] 26. Null Marriage. [&] 38. Hic Higer Est ~ Acapulca. [&] 66. The Devil of a Medley. [&] 80. The Court Cards or all Trumps 1756. [&] 90. The Court Cards of 1759, or Hearts is Trump & has Won the Game.
[London, Printed for E. Morris, near St. Paul's.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Eight engravings. Each sheet c. 130 x 100mm (5¼ x 4") large margins.
Eight plates from ''A Political and Satirical History of the Years 1756 and 1757 In a Series of Seventy-five Humorous and Entertaining Prints Containing All the most Remarkable Transactions, Characters and Caricaturas of those two memorable Years''.
BM Satires 3943, 3504, 3506, 3522, 3535, 3574, 3465 & 3699.
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[London, Printed for E. Morris, near St. Paul's.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Eight engravings. Each sheet c. 130 x 100mm (5¼ x 4") large margins.
Eight plates from ''A Political and Satirical History of the Years 1756 and 1757 In a Series of Seventy-five Humorous and Entertaining Prints Containing All the most Remarkable Transactions, Characters and Caricaturas of those two memorable Years''.
BM Satires 3943, 3504, 3506, 3522, 3535, 3574, 3465 & 3699.
[Ref: 53493] £480.00 (£576.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
In Fairyland, a series of Pictures from the Elf World. By Richard Doyle with a Poem by William Allingham.
London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1870.
Folio, disbound; lithographic title and 2pp. index, 16 colour-printed wood-engraved plates, as called for, with portrait of Doyle. Lacking text pages.
The colour plates from the most famous work by Richard Doyle (1824-83), with the colour illustrations printed by Edmund Evans (1826-1905), who had perfected the colour wood-engraving process (chromoxylography).
[Ref: 53766] £300.00 view all images for this item
London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1870.
Folio, disbound; lithographic title and 2pp. index, 16 colour-printed wood-engraved plates, as called for, with portrait of Doyle. Lacking text pages.
The colour plates from the most famous work by Richard Doyle (1824-83), with the colour illustrations printed by Edmund Evans (1826-1905), who had perfected the colour wood-engraving process (chromoxylography).
[Ref: 53766] £300.00 view all images for this item
![[Works of William Hogarth] Sammlung Hogarthischer Kupferstiche.](jpegs/53761.jpg)
[Works of William Hogarth] Sammlung Hogarthischer Kupferstiche. Erste Lieferung von sechs Platten [& parts 2 -7].
[Gottingen: J.C. Dieterich, n.d., 1794-c.1830.]
7 parts (of 14), folio, 365 x 265mm (14¼ x 10½"), original marbled wrappers with calf spine, printed labels on front cover, in later portfolio; each part with six numbered engravings (part 3 with eight), as called for. Some spotting and staining throughout.
A collection of the first 44 plates of 88 in this German edition of the engraved works of William Hogarth, published in parts 1794-1834. The plates were engraved by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen to accompany a commentary on the engravings of Hogarth by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 'Ausfürliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche'. Paulson describes the plates as ''good copies'' of the originals. Part 1 contains: Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn; A Midnight Modern Conversation; The Four Times of the Day. Part 2: A Harlot's Progess. Part 3: A Rake's Progress. Part 4: Marriage à-la-Mode. Part 5 & 6: Industry & Idleness. Part 7: The Invasion: France, Plate 1st, The Invasion: England, Plate 2nd; The Distrest Poet; The Laughing Audience; The Company of Undertakers; Tailpiece, or The Bathos. The complete set of 14 parts is rare.
Paulson Vol. I, p. 81.
[Ref: 53761] £690.00 view all images for this item
[Gottingen: J.C. Dieterich, n.d., 1794-c.1830.]
7 parts (of 14), folio, 365 x 265mm (14¼ x 10½"), original marbled wrappers with calf spine, printed labels on front cover, in later portfolio; each part with six numbered engravings (part 3 with eight), as called for. Some spotting and staining throughout.
A collection of the first 44 plates of 88 in this German edition of the engraved works of William Hogarth, published in parts 1794-1834. The plates were engraved by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen to accompany a commentary on the engravings of Hogarth by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 'Ausfürliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche'. Paulson describes the plates as ''good copies'' of the originals. Part 1 contains: Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn; A Midnight Modern Conversation; The Four Times of the Day. Part 2: A Harlot's Progess. Part 3: A Rake's Progress. Part 4: Marriage à-la-Mode. Part 5 & 6: Industry & Idleness. Part 7: The Invasion: France, Plate 1st, The Invasion: England, Plate 2nd; The Distrest Poet; The Laughing Audience; The Company of Undertakers; Tailpiece, or The Bathos. The complete set of 14 parts is rare.
Paulson Vol. I, p. 81.
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![[Twelve portraits of Sibyls.]](jpegs/53768.jpg)
[Twelve portraits of Sibyls.]
[by Romeyn de Hooghe.]
[Amsterdam: Hendrik Boom & the widow of Dirk Boom, 1688.]
Album, 18th century boards, with twelve engravings laid in, each trimmed to printed border, sheet c. 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Binding rubbed.
All twelve portraits of the Sibyls from 'Dissertationes de Sibyllis, earumque oraculis' by Gervais Gallé (latinised as Servatius Gallaeus), a Walloon preacher. The Sibyls depicted are: Persica, Libyssa, Delphica, Cumaea, Erythraea, Samia, Cumana, Hellespontica, Phrygia, Tiburtina, Europaea and Eagyptia.
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[by Romeyn de Hooghe.]
[Amsterdam: Hendrik Boom & the widow of Dirk Boom, 1688.]
Album, 18th century boards, with twelve engravings laid in, each trimmed to printed border, sheet c. 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Binding rubbed.
All twelve portraits of the Sibyls from 'Dissertationes de Sibyllis, earumque oraculis' by Gervais Gallé (latinised as Servatius Gallaeus), a Walloon preacher. The Sibyls depicted are: Persica, Libyssa, Delphica, Cumaea, Erythraea, Samia, Cumana, Hellespontica, Phrygia, Tiburtina, Europaea and Eagyptia.
[Ref: 53768] £600.00 view all images for this item
[Writing and Drawing Made Easy, Amusing and Instructive. Containing The Whole Alphabet in all the characters now us'd, Both in Printing and Penmanship; Each illustrated by Emblematic Devices and Moral Copies, Calculated for the Use of Schools and Curiously Engrav'd by the Best Hands.]
[Printed for and Sold by T. Bellamy, Bookseller at Kingston upon Thames; as also by most of the Book-sellers and Print-sellers in Town and Country.] [n.d., c.1750.]
A rare school book; oblong 8vo, 175 x 215mm (7 x 8½"), rebound in limp wrappers, late 18th century calf gilt strips laid on; 46 engraved plates. Lacking two engraved titles and two plates (or six) and 4pp. text. Plates worn and stained, rear plates with burns in margins, first plate laid on front pastedown, some old mss.
A well-used school book, which has obviously suffered at the hands of several pupils. It consisted of two plates for each letter of the alphabet, one illustrated and one of engraved text); this example lacks the illustration of 'The Dog' and the text for 'The Zealot' and possibly both plates for 'I' and 'U', although these were also lacking in the only example we could compare (archive.org).
The binding has been repaired with strips high-quality leather with gilt tooling from other books.
Written by William Chinnery (1708-91)
[Ref: 53767] £690.00 view all images for this item
[Printed for and Sold by T. Bellamy, Bookseller at Kingston upon Thames; as also by most of the Book-sellers and Print-sellers in Town and Country.] [n.d., c.1750.]
A rare school book; oblong 8vo, 175 x 215mm (7 x 8½"), rebound in limp wrappers, late 18th century calf gilt strips laid on; 46 engraved plates. Lacking two engraved titles and two plates (or six) and 4pp. text. Plates worn and stained, rear plates with burns in margins, first plate laid on front pastedown, some old mss.
A well-used school book, which has obviously suffered at the hands of several pupils. It consisted of two plates for each letter of the alphabet, one illustrated and one of engraved text); this example lacks the illustration of 'The Dog' and the text for 'The Zealot' and possibly both plates for 'I' and 'U', although these were also lacking in the only example we could compare (archive.org).
The binding has been repaired with strips high-quality leather with gilt tooling from other books.
Written by William Chinnery (1708-91)
[Ref: 53767] £690.00 view all images for this item