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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[Frontis] The Kit-Cat Club Done](jpegs/61603.jpg)
[Frontis] The Kit-Cat Club Done From the Original Paintings Of S.R Godfrey Kneller By M.r Faber 1735.
H. Gravelot inv. et delin. J. Faber Fecit 1735.
Sold by J Tonson in teh Strand. & J Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermarked paper; plate 355 x 255mm (14 x 9¾"). Very small margins. Tipped into album sheet at sides. Foxed.
Title within an oval shield, Minerva on left, Mars on right, Pegasus below, instruments of music, art bunches of grapes and a goblet on right, and sheaves of corn and a scythe on left.
[Ref: 61603] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
H. Gravelot inv. et delin. J. Faber Fecit 1735.
Sold by J Tonson in teh Strand. & J Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermarked paper; plate 355 x 255mm (14 x 9¾"). Very small margins. Tipped into album sheet at sides. Foxed.
Title within an oval shield, Minerva on left, Mars on right, Pegasus below, instruments of music, art bunches of grapes and a goblet on right, and sheaves of corn and a scythe on left.
[Ref: 61603] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
![[Dedication to Bell's Shakespeare] To His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales](jpegs/61355.jpg)
[Dedication to Bell's Shakespeare] To His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales [...] Your Royal Highness's most dutiful devoted Servant John Bell.
[Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi.]
London. Printed 1.st March 1788, for J. Bell, British Library, Strand.
Stipple with engraving. Sheet 145 x 185mm (5¾ x 7¼"). Laid on album paper. Cut.
A dedication page engraved by Bartolozzi for 'The Dramatick Writings Of Will. Shakespeare', a twenty-volume edition published by John Bell, illustrated by Francesco Bartolozzi. Bell (1745-1831) specialised in literature with illustrations to encourage readership. He also was instrumental in rendering the elongated 's' in typography obsolete.
De V. 1847.
[Ref: 61355] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
[Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi.]
London. Printed 1.st March 1788, for J. Bell, British Library, Strand.
Stipple with engraving. Sheet 145 x 185mm (5¾ x 7¼"). Laid on album paper. Cut.
A dedication page engraved by Bartolozzi for 'The Dramatick Writings Of Will. Shakespeare', a twenty-volume edition published by John Bell, illustrated by Francesco Bartolozzi. Bell (1745-1831) specialised in literature with illustrations to encourage readership. He also was instrumental in rendering the elongated 's' in typography obsolete.
De V. 1847.
[Ref: 61355] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)