Author: PYNE, WILLIAM HENRY; EXPLANATION OF THE PRINTS BY C. GRAY
Title: Microcosm [Two Volumes in One]: Limited Edition Paperback Or, a Picturesque Delineation of the Arts, Agriculture, and Manufactures of Great Britain in a Series of Above a Thousand Groups of Small Figures for the Embellishment of Landscape
Description: New York: Benjamin Blom, 1971. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Illustrated by William Henry Pyne. Soft cover is dark gray. White pastedown with black lettering and logo, which extends to spine and part way onto front. Grey end papers. Originally published in London, in 1806. Introduction by A. E. Santaniello. Lavishly illustrated with over a thousand b/w drawings. Errata page at the back, opposite the last numbered page. William Pyne, born the son of a weaver, in London, 1769. Pyne became a writer and painter. In 1805, the publisher, William Miller, commissioned him to write and illustrate The Costume of Great Britain. The book included 60 full-page paintings of professional and working-class men and women and scenes from everyday life. Rudolf Ackermann, the successful London publisher, impressed by the book, asked Pyne to work on a series of new books called The Microcosm of London. Pyne wrote the text and helped Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin with the illustrations. As well as book illustrations, Pyne wrote for several journals such as the Literary Gazette and Fraser's Magazine. In the 1830s Pyne found it more difficult to sell his work, dying impoverished, in 1843. ; B&W Illustrations; 7 1/4 x 10 1/2; 264 pages; Cover has light sunning and shelf wear, small, faint stain on title pastedown.. Very Good+ .

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