Author: SURTEES, Robert Smith; LEECH, John, illustrator
Title: Plain or Ringlets
Description: London: Bradbury and Evans, 1860. In the Original Monthly Parts With Hand Colored Vignette Title and Twelve Humorous Hand Colored Plates by John Leech SURTEES, Robert Smith. [LEECH, John, illustrator]. Plain or Ringlets? London: Bradbury and Evans, 1860. First edition. Thirteen parts bound in twelve. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in; 223 x 144 mm). viii, [2], 406, pp. Thirteen hand-colored steel-engraved plates, heightened with gum arabic. Hand-colored etched vignette title and twelve hand-colored plates. Black and white wood engravings throughout. Bound without the 12-page catalogue at end of the thirteenth part. However this set has two additional advertisements: "New Books published by John Camden Hotten" 2 pp. at end of part IX. and "New Books published by John Camden Hotten- Rubbing the Gilt Off" at the front of part X. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial wrappers. A very good set, chemised and housed in a red cloth clamshell case with black leather spine label lettered in gilt. One of the great pleasures of Plain or Ringlets is the interpretation of its events by the artist John Leech. He was introduced to Surtees by William Thackeray, a great friend and admirer of Surtees' work. The first novel Leech illustrated for Surtees was Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour. Surtees had originally asked Thackeray to illustrate this work, but Thackeray declined on the grounds that he could not draw horses; instead, he recommended Leech, being 'of a sporting turn' and who 'to my mind draws a horse excellently'. Leech illustrated all of Surtees' subsequent works and the two men became friends. The illustrations follow the text closely, a result of close collaboration between the artist and writer. Although Leech was responsible for numerous book illustrations, and is lauded as the chief cartoonist of Punch, some of his best work is to be found in the pages of Surtees' novels. Provenance: Van Santvoord Merle-Smith (1889-1943) was a United States soldier, lawyer, and investment banker, who served as Third Assistant Secretary of State from 1920 to 1921, and as Executive Intelligence Officer to General Douglas MacArthur during World War II. Field, p. 212; Podeschi 199; Sadleir 3167; Schwerdt Ii, p. 238; Tooley 477. .
Keywords: LEECH, John, illustrator Color-Plate Books Books in Parts Nineteenth-Century Literature
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Title: Plain or Ringlets
Description: London: Bradbury and Evans, 1860. In the Original Monthly Parts With Hand Colored Vignette Title and Twelve Humorous Hand Colored Plates by John Leech SURTEES, Robert Smith. [LEECH, John, illustrator]. Plain or Ringlets? London: Bradbury and Evans, 1860. First edition. Thirteen parts bound in twelve. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in; 223 x 144 mm). viii, [2], 406, pp. Thirteen hand-colored steel-engraved plates, heightened with gum arabic. Hand-colored etched vignette title and twelve hand-colored plates. Black and white wood engravings throughout. Bound without the 12-page catalogue at end of the thirteenth part. However this set has two additional advertisements: "New Books published by John Camden Hotten" 2 pp. at end of part IX. and "New Books published by John Camden Hotten- Rubbing the Gilt Off" at the front of part X. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial wrappers. A very good set, chemised and housed in a red cloth clamshell case with black leather spine label lettered in gilt. One of the great pleasures of Plain or Ringlets is the interpretation of its events by the artist John Leech. He was introduced to Surtees by William Thackeray, a great friend and admirer of Surtees' work. The first novel Leech illustrated for Surtees was Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour. Surtees had originally asked Thackeray to illustrate this work, but Thackeray declined on the grounds that he could not draw horses; instead, he recommended Leech, being 'of a sporting turn' and who 'to my mind draws a horse excellently'. Leech illustrated all of Surtees' subsequent works and the two men became friends. The illustrations follow the text closely, a result of close collaboration between the artist and writer. Although Leech was responsible for numerous book illustrations, and is lauded as the chief cartoonist of Punch, some of his best work is to be found in the pages of Surtees' novels. Provenance: Van Santvoord Merle-Smith (1889-1943) was a United States soldier, lawyer, and investment banker, who served as Third Assistant Secretary of State from 1920 to 1921, and as Executive Intelligence Officer to General Douglas MacArthur during World War II. Field, p. 212; Podeschi 199; Sadleir 3167; Schwerdt Ii, p. 238; Tooley 477. .
Keywords: LEECH, John, illustrator Color-Plate Books Books in Parts Nineteenth-Century Literature
Price: US$ 850.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 05951
- Book number: 05951
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