[ROWLANDSON, Thomas, in the style of].; [COMBE, William, imitation of]

Adventures of Doctor Comicus, the

London: Printed for B. Blake, 1815. In The Original Printed Boards The First Dr. Syntax Imitation [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, in the style of]. [COMBE, William, imitation of]. The Adventures of Doctor Comicus, or the Frolicks of Fortune. A Comic Satirical Poem for the Squeamish & the Queer. In Twelve Cantos, by a Modern Syntax. London: Printed for B. Blake. n.d. [1815]. First edition. Octavo (8 7/8 x 5 1/4 in; 226 x 133 mm). [2], 269, [1] pp. Fifteen hand-colored engraved plates including frontispiece and extra-title in the style of Rowlandson. Original printed boards uncut. Neatly rebacked preserving original spine label, new endpapers. Corners a little bumped and creased. Chemised and housed within a later quarter red morocco slipcase. Scarce in original boards. The first of many imitations of Combe's Dr. Syntax. Another edition was published in 1820 with only twelve colored plates. Reissued in 1828 by Jaques & Wright using the same sheets as the first edition but with their name and later date to titlepage. Abbey, Life 255. Tooley 431. Prideaux, p. 334. .

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Book number: 02652

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ROWLANDSON, Thomas

Comforts of Bath, the

London: , 1860. The Complete and Scarce 1860 Hand-Colored Reprint ROWLANDSON, Thomas. The Comforts of Bath. [London, 1860]. Reprint edition, complete and scarce. Oblong quarto (10 5/16 x 12 5/8 in; 261 x 322 mm.). No text or title, as issued. Twelve hand-colored aquatint plates with gray wash borders after Rowlandson, each one aperture mounted onto a paper sheet. Average plate size including gray wash borders 6 3/8 x 8 11/16 inches; 162 x 221 mm.). Bound ca. 1900 by Rivière & Son (stamp signed on lower turn-in) in full crimson morocco. Covers with double gilt rules, front cover lettered in gilt, spine with two raised bands lettered and bordered in gilt, gilt board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, dark green coated end-papers. Ex libris S.P. Lohia with his circular bookplate on front paste-down. Short tear (neatly repaired) on top margin of sheet containing plate 6. A very fine set, the plates as fresh and clean as one could hope for. The first edition of 1798 was designed to illustrate Anstey's New Bath Guide, and according to Tooley, is "one of the rarest of Rowlandson items." This reprint in excellent facsimile was published about 1860; apart from difference in the texture of the paper they can be recognized by the absence of the Fores imprint. Never issued with text." (Abbey, Scenery, 40, note). This series of watercolor drawings gives us Rowlandson's visual satire on the activities at Bath, whether bathing, gaming, dining, sitting for a portrait, enjoying a concert, dancing or romancing.  In each drawing, the figure of the rotund visitor to the Bath, reminiscent of Humphry Clinker's fussy Mr. Bramble, provides one point of view from which to view the scene, while Rowlandson gives us an outsider's view as well. Abbey, Scenery 40 (1798 edition); Tooley 408. Prideaux, p. 350. BM Satires 9321. The plates: [titles taken from the 1798 edition]. 1. The Physicians 2. The Concert 3. The Pump Room 4. The Fish Market 5. A Day Out Riding 6. The Portrait 7. The Baths 8. The Games 9. The Dinner 10. The Dancing 11. Public Breakfast 12. Bath Races Abbey, Scenery, 40 (note); Tooley, 408 (1798 first edition). .

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Book number: 03283

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ROWLANDSON, Thomas; M'CRINGER, Joel aka T.B. WILLYAMS

Compendious Treatise on Modern Education, A.

London: Printed by J. Smeeton, 1802. M'Cringer's Treatise on Modern Education With Eight Superb Hand Colored Plates Etched by Thomas Rowlandson ROWLANDSON, Thomas. M'CRINGER, Joel [aka J[ames]B[rydges]. WILLYAMS. A Compendious Treatise on Modern Education, in which the following interesting subjects are liberally discussed: The Nursery, Private Schools, Public Schools, Universities, Gallantry, Duelling, Gaming, Suicide. By the late Joel M'Cringer, D.D. F.R.S. A.S.S. Rector of the United Parishes of Pigworth, Goosebridge, and Honeytown, in Middlesex ; Vicar of Cornsteadcum-Haybury, in the same county ; Prebendary of St. Glebemore ; Whitehall preacher, and domestic chaplain to the Right Honourable Lord Trainwell; to which also are added, coloured designs both characteristic and illustrative, delineated by J.B. W******* Esq. and etched by Thomas Rowlandson. London: Printed by J. Smeeton, 1802. First edition. Oblong folio (10 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches; 267 x 343 mm.). [ii, title, verso blank], [i]-viii, [9]-34. Eight superb hand-colored etched plates, all with etched borders and titles. Text a little browned. Title-page expertly strengthened on inner margin. Small neat repair to inner margin of pp. v/vi with no loss of text; 2 1/4 inch tear to lower blank margin of pp. 17/18 expertly repaired and not affecting text. Three words on p. 28 crossed-out in black ink. Plates and text watermarked 1801. An excellent example of a very rare book, the hand colored plates generally fresh and clean. Contemporary diced calf, covers ruled in gilt and blind, expertly rebacked to style with smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, corners expertly repaired. OCLC locate just four copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: Yale University Library (CT, US), Harvard University (MA, US), Princeton University (NJ, US), Southwestern University (TX, US). "An exceedingly rare work" (Fitz Eugene Dixon sale, Anderson Galleries New York, January 7th, 1937, lot 189). Four copies have appeared at auction over the past fifty years - 2001, 2000, 1985 (2 copies). All four were apparently not great examples.. A rare and charming satire on educational treatises, with illustrations designed by J. B. Willyams (1772-1820) and etched by Rowlandson (1757-1827). Rowlandson frequently etched the designs of other satirists or amateurs, generally improving the designs and using his skill with figures and settings to balance the compositions and bring the characters to life. In all of his prints after another's designs his style and humor is detectable, if not the driving force of the print. The inclusion of Rowlandson's publication line on the plates ('Pubd May 10 1802, by T. Rowlandson, No.1 James Street, Adelphi'. The book was published by Smeeton) shows that he also published the prints separately himself. "This title page introduces a set of prints that Rowlandson etched after drawings by Willyams, a Cornish, university-educated lieutenant-colonel who supplied supporting text using the pseudonym Joel McCringer. Rowlandson's characteristic elegance does not disguise the dark human impulses being satirized. Modern education, it is suggested, does little to teach self-control, wisdom or empathy. Scenes show boys hurting chicks and insects, youths drinking, and young men carousing and gambling. Many of the images respond to themes that Hogarth addressed in his print series "Stages of Cruelty" and "A Modern Midnight Conversation""(1751 and 1733, Metropolitan Museum of Art 32.35 (118) and 19.1.77). The Plates: 1. The Nursery 2. Private School 3. Public School 4. University 5. School for Gallantry 6. School for Honour 7. School for Modern Greeks 8. School for Modern Romans Bobins II, 717; Dixon, 189; Falk, p. 213; Grego II, p. 41; Not in Abbey; Not in Tooley. .

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Book number: 05069

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Keywords: M'CRINGER, Joel aka T.B. WILLYAMS Caricatures English History

ROWLANDSON, Thomas; COMBE, William

English Dance of Death, the

London: Printed by J. Diggins; Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1815. The Union of the Gruesome and the Grotesque" Thomas Rowlandson's 'The English Dance of Death' [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator]. [COMBE, William]. The English Dance of Death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson, with Metrical Illustrations, by the author of "Doctor Syntax." London: Printed by J. Diggens; Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1815-16. First edition, Remainder binding issue. Two royal octavo volumes (9 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches; 249 x 159 mm.). vii, [1, blank], [iv, Index], 295, [1, blank]; [ii], [iv, Index], 299, [1, blank] pp. Hand colored frontispiece, hand colored title, and seventy-two hand colored aquatint plates by Thomas Rowlandson. Text watermarked J. Whatman or Balston, 1814 and 1815; Plates watermarked J. Whatman, 1818. Publisher's 'Remainder' binding of orange cloth, covers decorated in blind, spines pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt, yellow coated endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Rear inner hinges of both volumes cracked but sound. Housed in a pale brown cloth clamshell case lettered in gilt on back. Tiny 3/8 inch closed marginal tear on plate facing p. 37 in volume one. The text and plates remarkably clean with the exception of the occasional light foxing and offsetting from a few plates. A remarkable copy of the 'remainder' issue of the first edition, bound up ca. 1840. with early watermarks of both plates and text. The Dance of Death was originally issued in twenty-four monthly parts. "It is possible that the extraordinary success of Dr. Syntax caused Ackermann to over-estimate the demand for the new ventures (The Dance of Death 1815-16 and The Dance of Life 1817) with the result that a large number of unbound sheets were left on his hands, and they were dispersed over a considerable period. It has even been suggested that the orange cloth-bindings were used at the time of the 1851 Exhibition, but they were certainly in circulation before." (Abbey, Life in England 263 & 264). "The subject of the book lies in the often quoted saying of Horace -- 'Pallida Mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.' (Pale Death, impartial, he knocks at the hovels of the poor, the towers..). The idea of Death as the universal depredator, stretching out his bony hand to seize his prey at moments inopportune and unexpected, showing the vanity of human life and the futility of human pleasures and pursuits, had been pictured by many artists before Rowlandson, notably in the famous series by Holbein. Rowlandson in his Dance of Death takes his characters from the world around him, sees them in his own original way, and imparts to the subject his own satirical humour, with its curious combination of the sublime and the ludicrous. It is obvious at a glance that the artist bestowed exceptional care on the illustrations for this book. The union of the gruesome and the grotesque appealed strongly to his imagination and in completeness of detail and carefulness of grouping the illustrations excel nearly all his other work." (Martin Hardie, English Coloured Books, pp. 171-172). "Rowlandson's Dance of Death, the only series on the subject since Holbein's to rival that master, is the perfect complement to his Microcosm of London, for here the artist is concerned for the most part not with crowds, but with scenes of violent action or intense emotion drawn from private life. Far from seeming repetitious, the figure of Death provides a sardonic presence which adds immensely to the scenes he stage manages.." (Gordon Ray, The illustrator and the book in England from 1790 to 1914, pp. 27-28). "The Combe-Rowlandson alliance also produced other fruits, The [English] Dance of Death.. being notably above the ordinary level of Combe's verse. All of these works show the better side of Rowlandson's genius; the best was reserved for the Microcosm and some of his many detached drawings." (Prideaux, Aquatint Engraving, pp.306-307). "Indispensable to any Rowlandson collection, one of the essential pivots of any colour plate Library, being one of the main works of Rowlandson." (Tooley). Abbey. Life in England, 263; Tooley, 411; Prideaux, pp. 306-307; Ray, 35; Martin Hardie, pp. 171-172. .

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Book number: 05366

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Keywords: COMBE, William English Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature Color-Plate Books Bindings Caricatures Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature

ROWLANDSON, Thomas

Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs

London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1798-9. Thomas Rowlandson's Loyal Volunteers of London.. The Plates Heightened in Gold and Silver ROWLANDSON, Thomas. Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs, Infantry & Cavalry, in their respective Uniforms. Representing the whole of the Manual, Platoon, & Funeral Exercise in 87 plates Designed & Etch'd by T. Rowlandson. [London]: Rudolph Ackermann, [1798-99]. First edition, early issue (plates heightened in gold and silver). Large quarto (13 x 10 1/2 inches; 330 x 266 mm.). viii, [4, list of subscribers and contents]. Descriptive text to each plate and index and errata at end. Hand-colored etched title-page, 86 hand-colored etched plates, many heightened with gold or silver, all by and after Thomas Rowlandson. Bound without the two later issued plates** as usual. Contemporary full red straight-grain morocco, covers decoratively paneled in gilt, spine with five double raised-bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt board edges and turn-ins. Expertly and almost invisibly rebacked to style. A wonderful and large copy of this important work by Thomas Rowlandson, with early impressions of the plates heightened with gold and silver. The text and plates are watermarked 1794. Abbey's copy measured 12 5/8 x 9 3/8 inches. **"Two additional plates exist, 'Expedition or Military Fly' and 'Sadler's Flying Artillery': the book was bound in volume form before they were issued. Copies without them can, therefore, be considered complete." (Abbey). Paradoxically (this is a military costume book after all), Rowlandson here presents some of his most elegant and effective work in terms of pure print-making. The result is arguably the greatest of all military costume books, in that it ascends beyond being a mere record of uniforms to become an elegy to patriotism, an important social document and a cohesive work of art, all produced at a time of great national peril. The phenomenon of the volunteer corps arose as a response to the perceived imminent danger of invasion by the French Napoleonic forces. Rudolph Ackermann notes in his introduction that 'At this moment, the enemy had advanced their best regulated legions to the shores of the British Channel; and for the determined purpose of spreading through our land such miseries as have already rendered wretched their own'. The British response was immediate and defiant, and Ackermann goes on to note that when the Loyal Volunteers of London were inspected by the King on 21st June 1799 the roll-call of volunteers, manning 11 different positions, totalled just over 12,200 men. The present work serves as a record of that overwhelming show of loyalty, as well as of the uniforms of all the main volunteer forces. In addition, Rowlandson pictures each individual in a particular drill position, the name and details of which are given in the engraved text beneath each figure. Abbey Life 379; Prideaux p. 350; C. Thomson Bobins II, 385; Tooley 416; Colas, 2586; Ogilby, British Military Costume Prints, 778. .

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Book number: 03290

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Keywords: English History Naval and Military

ROWLANDSON, Thomas; ROBERTS, Lt. Col. David

Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome, the

London: Printed for Patrick Martin, 1815. Fifteen Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates Drawn and Etched by Thomas Rowlandson [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator]. [ROBERTS, Lt. Col. David, author]. The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome. With an Account of His Campaigns on the Peninsula and in Pall Mall: With Sketches by Rowlandson; and Notes. By and Officer. London: Printed for Patrick Martin, 1815. First edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches; 210 x 130 mm). [4], 188 pp. Fifteen hand-colored aquatint plates drawn and etched by Rowlandson, including frontispiece. Handsomely bound ca. 1900 by Rivière and Son in full dark red crushed levant morocco, covers with triple gilt-rule borders, spine with five raised bands, elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt-ruled board edges, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Small neat and almost invisible repair to lower blank margin of title-page, some very minor offsetting from plates to text otherwise a very fine example in a fine early twentieth century binding. "To the Subalterns of the British Army. Gentlemen, I shall , I trust, be acquitted of any servile view, when in dedicating this humble Essay to the Subalterns of the British Army, I adopt the only means in my powers of shewing how much I honour and admire them. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, With the greatest respect, Your most obedient Servant, The Author." (Dedication) Abbey, Life 378. Tooley 417. Hardie, p. 158. Prideaux, p. 305. .

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ROWLANDSON, Thomas; ROBERTS, Lt. Col. David

Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome, the

London: Printed for Patrick Martin, 1816. Fifteen Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates Drawn and Etched by Thomas Rowlandson [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator]. [ROBERTS, Lt. Col. David, author]. The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome, with an Account of His Campaigns on the Peninsula, and in Pall Mall: With Sketches, by Rowlandson, and Notes. By and Officer. Second Edition. London: Printed for Patrick Martin, 1816. Second edition. Octavo (8 9/16 x 5 3/8 inches; 218 x 137 mm). [4], 188 pp. Fifteen hand-colored aquatint plates drawn and etched by Rowlandson, including frontispiece. Lower margin of pp. 65/66 replaced just affecting one letter on verso. Small hole (1/8 inch) on pp. 111/112 just affecting one letter. Some minor offsetting from plates to text and some scattered light foxing to text. Bound ca. 1930 in full dark red crushed levant morocco, covers with triple gilt-rule borders, spine with two raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt-decorated board edge corners, triple gilt-ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Original purple cloth covers and spine bound in at end. "To the Subalterns of the British Army. Gentlemen, I shall , I trust, be acquitted of any servile view, when in dedicating this humble Essay to the Subalterns of the British Army, I adopt the only means in my powers of shewing how much I honour and admire them. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, With the greatest respect, Your most obedient Servant, The Author." (Dedication) Abbey, Life 378 (First edition, 1815); Tooley 418; Hardie, p. 158; Prideaux, p. 305. .

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Book number: 04852

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Keywords: ROBERTS, Lt. Col. David Fine Bindings Caricatures English History Naval and Military

ROWLANDSON, Thomas

Miseries of Human Life

London: R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 1808. In the Original Boards Complete with the Rare 'Pall Mall' Plate ROWLANDSON, Thomas. Miseries of Human Life: Designed and Etched by T. Rowlandson.. London: R. Ackermann, 1808. Oblong quarto (8 1/8 x 10 3/16 inches; 207 x 262 mm.). Hand colored engraved title-page and forty-nine hand colored engraved plates including the rare 'Pall Mall' plate which is missing from most copies. Two of the plates watermarked 'J. Whatman 1811' and seven watermarked 'J. Whatman 1814'. Original quarter roan over drab boards. Front cover with original printed green paper label "Miseries of Human Life. / Designed and Etched by / T. Rowlandson. / 50 plates, coloured / [rule] / Price £1. 11. 6d." Spine ruled in gilt. Spine worn, corners rubbed. Housed in a full red morocco solander case with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in compartments. A wonderful untouched copy, the plates bright and fresh. "Plate 40 'Pall Mall' is rare, most copies re-placing this with 'The Chiropodist' (Abbey). According to ABPC just one copy complete with all 51 plates has appeared at auction over the past 35 years (Christie's New York, May 14th, 1985) "The Miseries of Human Life, [originally] written in 1806 by James Beresford (1764-1840) of Oxford University, was extraordinarily successful, becoming a minor classic in the satirical literature of the day. In a humorous dialogue between two old curmudgeons, the book details the "petty outrages, minor humiliations, and tiny discomforts that make up everyday human existence." The public loved it: dozens of editions were published, and printmakers rushed to illustrate their own versions of life's miseries. Thomas Rowlandson (1756/57-1827) began drawing scenes based on Beresford's book as soon as it was published, and after two years the luxury print dealer Rudolph Ackermann selected fifty of his hand-colored etchings for a new edition of Miseries. Many of the now-iconic characters and situations that the artist drew for this project - some based closely on Beresford's text and others of his own invention-reappeared in later works, with variations on the Miseries turning up until the artist's death. In the early twentieth century, Dickson Q. Brown, Class of 1895, donated two thousand Rowlandson prints and all of the artist's illustrated books to Princeton University Library. Of particular importance was a small box of Rowlandson's unpublished, undated drawings, including many specifically related to his Miseries series.. Just as in Rowlandson's book, those specific to Beresford's text are shown alongside others that illustrate life's miseries more generally, including some from the Princeton University Art Museum's collection. The sections follow the chapters, or "groans," of Beresford's book." (Julie Mellby, Graphic Arts Curator, Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University). William Morley Pegge (1952-1927) appears to have been a sportsman and a collector. He collected lace, books and drawings, and was a client of Messrs Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell. In 1910 he was a buyer at the sale of Sir William Neville Abdy's collection at Christie's, London. His own library was sold by Sotheby's, London, on 29 March 1928. Grego, Rowlandson II, pp. 119-124; Abbey, Life in England, 317 (plates watermarked 1811 & 1814); Bobins IV, 1353; Not in Tooley. .

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ROWLANDSON, Thomas

Miseries of Human Life

London: R. Ackermann, 1808. Complete with the Rare 'Pall Mall' Plate ROWLANDSON, Thomas. Miseries of Human Life: Designed and Etched by T. Rowlandson.. London: R. Ackermann, 1808. Oblong quarto (7 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches; 197 x 250 mm.). Hand colored engraved title-page and forty-nine hand colored engraved plates including the rare 'Pall Mall' plate which is missing from most copies. Seven of the plates watermarked 'J. Whatman 1811' and three watermarked 'J. Whatman 1812'. Some occasional light marginal staining, otherwise bright and fresh. Full late nineteenth century maroon morocco by Rivière & Son (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in). Covers decoratively bordered in gilt with gilt corner-pieces, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt ruled board edges and decorative gilt turn-ins, dark blue coated endpapers, all edges gilt. With the armorial bookplate of William Morley Pegge on front paste-down. Lower part of front hinge very slightly cracked but absolutely sound. "Plate 40 'Pall Mall' is rare, most copies re-placing this with 'The Chiropodist' (Abbey). According to ABPC just one copy complete with all 51 plates has appeared at auction over the past 35 years (Christie's New York, May 14th, 1985) "The Miseries of Human Life, [originally] written in 1806 by James Beresford (1764-1840) of Oxford University, was extraordinarily successful, becoming a minor classic in the satirical literature of the day. In a humorous dialogue between two old curmudgeons, the book details the "petty outrages, minor humiliations, and tiny discomforts that make up everyday human existence." The public loved it: dozens of editions were published, and printmakers rushed to illustrate their own versions of life's miseries. Thomas Rowlandson (1756/57-1827) began drawing scenes based on Beresford's book as soon as it was published, and after two years the luxury print dealer Rudolph Ackermann selected fifty of his hand-colored etchings for a new edition of Miseries. Many of the now-iconic characters and situations that the artist drew for this project - some based closely on Beresford's text and others of his own invention-reappeared in later works, with variations on the Miseries turning up until the artist's death. In the early twentieth century, Dickson Q. Brown, Class of 1895, donated two thousand Rowlandson prints and all of the artist's illustrated books to Princeton University Library. Of particular importance was a small box of Rowlandson's unpublished, undated drawings, including many specifically related to his Miseries series.. Just as in Rowlandson's book, those specific to Beresford's text are shown alongside others that illustrate life's miseries more generally, including some from the Princeton University Art Museum's collection. The sections follow the chapters, or "groans," of Beresford's book." (Julie Mellby, Graphic Arts Curator, Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University). William Morley Pegge (1952-1927) appears to have been a sportsman and a collector. He collected lace, books and drawings, and was a client of Messrs Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell. In 1910 he was a buyer at the sale of Sir William Neville Abdy's collection at Christie's, London. His own library was sold by Sotheby's, London, on 29 March 1928. Grego, Rowlandson II, pp. 119-124; Abbey, Life in England, 317 (plates watermarked 1811 & 1814); Not in Tooley. .

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Book number: 04841

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Keywords: Fine Bindings Caricatures

[ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator]; [WOLCOT, John, aka Peter Pindar]

Petticoat Loose

London: Printed for J.J. Stockdale, 1812. A Political Satire Deploring Ireland's Union With England Four Hand Colored Etchings by Thomas Rowlandson Extra-Illustrated by the Insertion of Five Additional Plates Including a Very Scarce Double-Page Hand Colored Etching by Rowlandson "Comforts of an Irish Fishing Lodge" (Published May, 1812) ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator. [WOLCOT, John, aka Peter Pindar]. Petticoat Loose. A Fragmentary "Tale of the Castle." Embellished with Plates. London: Printed for J.J. Stockdale, 1812. First edition. Quarto (10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches; 270 x 210 mm.). 135, [1, blank] pp. Four hand-colored etchings (all with protective tissue-guards), designed and engraved by Rowlandson. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of five hand plates of which four are hand colored including one fine double-page hand colored etching by Thomas Rowlandson 'Comforts of an Irish Fishing Lodge' (published by Hannah Humphrey) which is not mentioned in Grego. This fine illustration depicts two men sitting in a badly flooded room surrounded by ducks, dogs, pigs and rats. We can locate just one copy of this etching at Yale University Library (CT, USA). Contemporary marbled boards, expertly rebacked to style in quarter calf. Spine with five raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments. An excellent example of this extremely scarce Rowlandson item, not mentioned in Tooley. The Plates: 1. Capture of the Petticoat. (frontispiece) 2. Breakfast Room at an Inn. (facing p. 11) 3. College Green, before the Union -- A scene of state, bustle, and prosperity. (facing p. 59) 4. College Green, after the Union -- Shabbiness, poverty, and beggary have sole possession of the scene. (facing p. 62) The Extra-Illustrations: 1. Engraved portrait of Peter Pindar Esq. (Opie/Mackenzie) pasted onto verso of title-page 2. T. Rowlandson. Comforts of an Irish Fishing Lodge Pub May 12th, 1812 by H. Humphrey No. 27 St. James's St. (double-page, hand colored - between pp. 3 & 4) Small repair to lower 1 1/4 inch of fold. This fine etching is not mentioned in Grego 3. The Late Rt. Hon.ble Chas. Spencer Perceval Chancellor of the Exchequer & c. Pubd. May 16th, 1812 by A. Beugo 38 Maiden Lane Covt. Garden (hand colored - between pp. 22/23) 4. Mrs Clarke. Hapwood/Erskine Thomas Tegg 1809. (hand colored - between pp. 120/121 5. Napoleone Buonaparte First Consul of the French Republic. Pub. Aug 28th, 1800 by J. Harris (between pp. 124/125) When, in 1778, John Wolcot (1738-1819) a physician, came to London, he began "the writing of vigorous and witty satirical verses" (OCEL) under the pseudonym "Peter Pindar." He was blind by the year 1812. This work [Petticoat Loose] is a prose poem" (CBEL. Vol. 11, pp. 37-38). Loosely based upon a traditional tale of the same name, "Petticoat Loose" was the nickname of Mary Hannigan, a renowned dancer and drinker of ardent spirits who once, while seriously sloshed, caught her skirt on a floor nail which ripped and dropped the skirt to the ground, hence "Petticoat Loose." Once dared to test her drinking capacity, she fell dead after completing the challenge. Here, Wolcot has spun the story into a political satire deploring Ireland's union with England. Bobins V, 1616; Grego, Rowlandson II, pp, 238-239; Grolier Club, Rowlandson, p. 121; Not in Tooley. .

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Book number: 04413

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Keywords: [WOLCOT, John, aka Peter Pindar] Caricatures Irish Literature

SAMS, William

Tour Through Paris, A.

London: William Sams, [1828]. An Unusually Fresh & Clean Copy SAMS, William. A Tour Through Paris, Illustrated with Twenty-One Coloured Plates, Accompanied with Descriptive Letter-Press. London: William Sams, [n.d. 1828]. [Second edition], identical to the first of 1824 but with subtitle added, and plates in different order. Folio (14 1/4 x 10 7/16 inches; 361 x 265 mm.). Engraved title-page and twenty-one hand-colored aquatint plates with accompanying unpaginated text to each. Plates watermarked 1827 and 1828. Contemporary quarter crimson straight-grained morocco over marbled boards. Gilt decorated compartments at spine head and tail bookending title in gilt. With the bookplate of Laurence Currie. A fine copy, unusually fresh and clean. Published by printer-bookseller William Sams, of whom little is known, these beautifully designed and aquatinted prints of brilliant hue and warm saturation depict lively and diverse Parisian street scenes and interiors. The Plates: 1. Distribution of Wine on the Morning of St. Louis 2. The Voitures of Versailles 3. The Blind Man of the Pont des Arts 4. Dancers on Stilts in the Shams-Elysées 5. Office of Nurses 6. Porters and Fishwomen Revelling Round the Statue of Henry IV 7. Interior of a Swimming School 8. Parisians Reading the Public Prints in the Garden of the Tuilleries 9. The Catacombs 10. Chamber of Deputies 11. Street Characters 12. Itinerants on the Boulevards 13. Military Degradation 14. The Juggler of the Chateau d'Eau 15. La Morgue 16. The Flower-Market 17. The Meridian of the Palais Royal 18. The Charcoal Porters 19. Procession of the Fete-Dieu 20. A Corps de Garde of the Garde Nationale 21. Promenade of Her Serene Highness the Duchess of Berri.. Abbey, Travel, 114. Colas, 2898. Lipperheide, 1187. Tooley, 444. .

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SAMS, William

Tour Through Paris, A.

London: William Sams, [1828]. An Unusually Fresh & Clean Copy The Plates Superbly Hand-Colored SAMS, William. A Tour Through Paris, Illustrated with Twenty-One Coloured Plates, Accompanied with Descriptive Letter-Press. London: William Sams, [n.d. 1828]. [Second edition], identical to the first of 1824 but with subtitle added, and plates in different order. Folio (14 7/16 x 10 1/2 inches; 367 x 266 mm.). Engraved title-page and twenty-one hand-colored aquatint plates with accompanying unpaginated text to each. Interleaved throughout. Plates watermarked 1825, 1827 and 1828. Contemporary quarter maroon straight-grained morocco over pebbled maroon cloth boards ruled in blind. Expertly re-backed with the original spine laid down. Spine with five wide and flat bandsdecoratively tooled and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With the armorial bookplate of Sir David Lionel Goldsmid Stern Salomons on front paste-down. A fine copy, unusually fresh and clean. Published by printer-bookseller William Sams, of whom little is known, these beautifully designed and aquatinted prints of brilliant hue and warm saturation depict lively and diverse Parisian street scenes and interiors. The Plates: 1. Distribution of Wine on the Morning of St. Louis 2. The Voitures of Versailles 3. The Blind Man of the Pont des Arts 4. Dancers on Stilts in the Shams-Elysées 5. Office of Nurses 6. Porters and Fishwomen Revelling Round the Statue of Henry IV 7. Interior of a Swimming School 8. Parisians Reading the Public Prints in the Garden of the Tuilleries 9. The Catacombs 10. Chamber of Deputies 11. Street Characters 12. Itinerants on the Boulevards 13. Military Degradation 14. The Juggler of the Chateau d'Eau 15. La Morgue 16. The Flower-Market 17. The Meridian of the Palais Royal 18. The Charcoal Porters 19. Procession of the Fete-Dieu 20. A Corps de Garde of the Garde Nationale 21. Promenade of Her Serene Highness the Duchess of Berri.. Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, 2nd Baronet (1851-1925) was a scientific author and barrister. He produced several prolific scientific works and pamphlets. He was a J.P. D.L. and Sheriff (1880) of Kent, Mayor and Alderman of Tunbridge Wells, County Councilor for the Tonbridge division of Kent for 15 years and J.P. for London. Middlesex, Sussex and Westminster. (Wikipedia). Abbey, Travel, 114. Colas, 2898. Lipperheide, 1187. Tooley, 444. .

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SAUVAN, Jean-Baptiste-Balthazar

Picturesque Tour of the Seine from Paris to the Sea

London: R. Ackermann, 1821. One of Fifty Large-Paper Copies With Remarkably Brilliant Impressions of the Plates That are Greatly Superior to those in the Regular Copies SAUVAN, Jean-Baptiste-Balthazar. Picturesque Tour of the Seine, From Paris to the Sea. With particulars historical and descriptive.. Illustrated with twenty-four highly finished and coloured engravings, from drawings made by A. Pugin and J. Glendall; And accompanied by a Map. London: R. Ackermann, 1821. First edition. One of Fifty Large-Paper Copies. Folio (16 3/4 x 13 inches; 425 x 330 mm.). viii, [ii, contents and list of plates], 177, [1 blank] pp. Hand colored vignette title and tailpiece. Hand-Colored map and twenty four hand-colored aquatint plates by D. Havell after A. Pugin and J. Glendall. Plates and text watermarked 1820. Bound by [Rivière] for Hatchards ca. 1940 in three-quarter dark green morocco over green cloth boards, ruled in blind. Spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, others uncut, dark green endpapers. A fine, fresh and very tall Large-Paper edition of one of the greatest nineteenth-century English color plate books illustrating the scenery along the Seine. Brilliant impressions of the plates, superbly hand-colored. With all six of the original publisher's wrappers bound in at the end. "The River Seine is well known to form a distinguished feature in the Tour of France, as it winds through and adorns the important province of Normandy, and is the great commercial Channel of the Metropolis of that Kingdom. This River reflects, in its earlier stream, the most striking views of metropolitan grandeur; and, as it proceeds, Nature has been most lavish in beautiful pictures on its banks, and presents, in its course, a succession of objects, whose landscape enrichments are connected with antiquarian circumstances peculiarly interesting to the English Traveller" (prospectus on verso of the wrappers). The work was issued by Ackermann in six parts, each containing four plates, between January and June 1821. Seven hundred and fifty copies were printed on regular paper, at 14s per part, and fifty large-paper copies (like the present), "taken on Atlas Paper" at 21s per part. "Large-paper copies have remarkably brilliant impressions of the plates and are greatly superior to small-paper copies" (Tooley). Abbey, Travel 90; Tooley 445; Bobins, Exotic and the Beautiful II: 548. .

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[SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel] J.S-

Ce Qu'on Dit Et Ce Qu'on Pense [What One Says and What One Thinks]

Paris: Gihaut Frères, 1829. 'What One Says And What One thinks' Forty-Eight Fine Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates by Jean-Gabriel Scheffer [SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel]. Ce qu'on dit et ce qu'on pense [What one says and what one thinks]. Paris: Gihaut Frères, [1829-30]. Folio (13 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches; 343 x 260 mm.). Forty-eight (of sixty) hand-colored lithograph plates numbered consecutively up to 36, at which point they jump to 49 and then continue consecutively up to 60, for a total of 48. The last plate with two expert fore-margin repairs, some occasional light marginal foxing otherwise fine. Contemporary half red roan over diced red paper boards, smooth spine ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Near fine. This is only the second time that we have ever seen this exceptionally rare series of plates. They depict the many manifestations of hypocrisy in French society of the time. That copy, which we sold in 2001 also had the same forty-eight colored plates. We have only been able to locate only one other complete example - the Bobins copy (The Exotic and the Beautiful - the World in Color) which has a lithographed title and sixty hand colored plates. OCLC locates just three copies of this very scarce suite of plates - Morgan Library, (NY), USA) Ex. Gordon Ray ; Bibliotheque de Geneve (Switzerland) and Bibliotheque Publique et Univ. Neuchatel (Switzerland). All three of these copies have forty-eight plates (like the present copy), and there is no evidence whatsoever that anything was ever excised from this book. It is possible that the missing numbers (37 through 48 inclusive) were deliberately withdrawn for some reason unknown to us. Providing some circumstantial backing for this theory is that Plate No. 49, the first of the final group, depicts a crowd greeting Louis Philippe with "Vive le Roi!" after the July Revolution in which he rose to power. Four of the early plates were lithographed by Villain. Almost all the plates, including one of the ones credited to Villain, are also marked by Gihaut, unless there are no names at all. Adding to the confusion or complexity of the printing is that Charles Tilt, the London publisher, is credited, along with Gihaut, on plates 31 thru 36. Swiss genre painter and lithographer Jean Gabriel Scheffer (1797-1876), who studied with Regnault and was a friend of Corot, Aligny, and Léopold Robert. His work was shown at the Salon de Paris beginning in 1822; his reputation as a designer of many wryly humorous lithographs, typically signed "J.S." was firm. The plates: 1. Eh bonjour, qu'elle aimable surprise! / Bete de Lisette! 2. Adieu, soyez donc moins rare / Je te consignerai vieux fou 3. Je veux mourir si l'on donne plus de 30 ans / de mariage 4. Mais que dites vous donc? vous avez une mine d'empereur / Le pauvre cher homme n'ira pas loin 5. On n'est jamais laid avec une figure distinguée / ......... ! 6. Toujours de l'esprit! / Grand benet! 7. Monsieur, vous pouvez disposer de moi, je vous suis tout devoué / Encore un diner à celui-là 8. Charmée d'avoir eu le plaisir de faire votre connaissance / Quel lourdaud! 9. Que je suis donc enchanté, mon cher oncle, de vous voir rétabli / Ca recule l'héritage, mais c'est égal 10. Vous pouvez compter, Madame, que j'y emploierai tout mon crédit / C'est vieux, c'est laid, et ca sollicite! 11. Qu'avez-vous donc de si pressé, chère amie? / Elle ne démarrera pas 12. Allons, bon voyage, et revenez nous bien vite / Bon dèbarras! 13. C'est ressemblant, mais vous etes bien mieux que cou / 14. Mademoiselle Delphine a là un bien beau talent / allons, faut avaler le Concerto 15. Ils sont vraiment charmants / C'est a n'y pas tenir 16. c'est délicieux.. c'est un petit paradis terrestre / Il ne me fera pas grace d'un oignon 17. adieu, nous comptons sur vous donnez nous quelques jours ou je ne vous aime plus / Je tremble qu'elle ne vienne 18. et n'oubliez en grosses lettres bon pere, excellent époux, il laisse une veuve inconsolable / 19. eh parbleu ce n'etait pas si pressé / enfin! .. j'en avais déja fait mon deuil 20. C'est une veine; Madame je vous félicite.. je me félicite / le Diable t'emporte! 21. Pas le moindre je vous assure, Madama / G ..... sur mon cor 22. Notre dernier roman est délicieux c'est un interet, un charm indicibles / faut pourtant que j'en lise quelques pages 23. léger, indiscret!.. que vous me connaissez peu!!! / en avant le sentiment 24. Des vertus, des talens, eh que faut-il donc de plus / pour rester fille? 25. mon petit Charles n'a pas cette belle santé / ni cet air commun et pataud 26. mais vous ne mangez pas / Il dévore 27. on vous devait cela; ce n est point une faveur, c'est une justice.. tardive / maitre intrigant! 28. Le Rose, ma chère, vous va a ravir / ca la vieillit de dix ans 29. Savez vous, Madame qu'on s'y abonnerait à votre fortune du pot / Si l'on m'y rattrape! 30. Je donnerais trois operas pour avoir fait votre romance / [musical notes] 31. Quelle folie, mon ami! ai-je besoin de cela? / les pierres sont bien petites 32. eh parbleu, moquez vous des propos, n'avez vous pas votre conscience? ... qui est de bonne composition 33. Comment donc! avec grand plaisir / Ces animaux là me prennent pour un roulage 34. Comment vous y etes pour 60,000 francs! ah j'en suis désolée / C'est bien fait vieux ladre 35. Une perruque! vraiment? eh bien ca ne parait pas.. / plus .. que le nez au milieu du visage 36. Tu étais, je t'assure, la plus jolie du bal / après moi 49. Vive le Roi! (No. B.) après Juillet 1830, ne confondons pas 50. Alfred! si vous me trompiez! / .. nous serions quittes 51. Et comment n'auriez vous pas d amis avec votre mérite, votre esprit / une bonne table et une jolie femme 52. Eh bien c'est convenu, nous ne ferons pas de toilette / elle sera éblouissante mais je l'éclipserai 53. après vous; le mérite est plus respectable que l'age / le neveu d'une Excellence!! 54. s'il m'en souvient..! / il ne m'en souvient guère 55. bravo colonel, voila un doublé admirable / fameux raccroc! 56. enfin mon ami il faut se resigner / le noir me va très bien 57. vous avez beau rire je n'en aimerai jamais qu'un seul / à la fois 58. s'il y avait doute, bien; mais c'est affaire d'or / .. pour nous autres 59. je le jure... / .. par St. Ignace Loyola 60. Intervention tout pacifique / d'abord.. on verra après Bobins III, #962; Hiler, p. 781; Lipperheide, 3686 (with thirty-six colored plates only). .

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[SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel] J.S-

Ce Qu'on Dit Et Ce Qu'on Pense [What One Says and What One Thinks]

Paris: Chez Gihaut Frères, 1829. 'What One Says And What One thinks' Sixty Fine Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates by Jean-Gabriel Scheffer [SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel]. Ce qu'on dit et ce qu'on pense [What one says and what one thinks]. Paris: Gihaut Frères, 1829. First edition. Complete. Oblong folio (9 3/4 x 13 inches; 248 x 330 mm.). Publisher's original tan pictorial lithograph front wrapper (as title-page) and sixty wonderful hand-colored lithograph plates numbered consecutively. Plates 1-12 are lithographed by Villain, plates 13-60 are lithographed by Gihaut Frères. Plates 13-19 & 37-60 are signed 'Sheffer Gabriel'. A few plates with light, mainly marginal foxing, otherwise near fine. Mid-nineteenth century quarter dark green calf over marbled boards, smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt. An excellent example of one of the great scarcities in French caricature. Certainly plate numbers 37-48 are of the utmost rarity. Highly amusing scenes showing classic situations of bourgeois life under the restoration, these superb plates present with great humor the gap between "what is said" and "what we think". This is only the third time that we have ever seen this exceptionally rare series of plates depicting the many manifestations of hypocrisy in French society of the time. That copy, which we sold in 2001 had the same forty-eight of the sixty colored plates. We have only been able to locate two complete copies - the Bobins copy (The Exotic and the Beautiful - the World in Color) which is also complete with the lithographed title and sixty hand colored plates, and the Rene Descamps-Scrive and Paul Gavault copy, which appeared at a French auction in 2013. OCLC locates just three copies of this very scarce suite of plates - Morgan Library, (NY), USA) Ex. Gordon Ray ; Bibliotheque de Geneve (Switzerland) and Bibliotheque Publique et Univ. Neuchatel (Switzerland). All three of these copies have forty-eight plates. Adding to the confusion or complexity of the printing is that Charles Tilt, the London publisher, is credited, along with Gihaut, on plates 31 thru 36. It is possible that the missing numbers (37 through 48 inclusive) were deliberately withdrawn for some reason unknown to us. Providing some circumstantial backing for this theory is that Plate No. 49, the first of the final group, depicts a crowd greeting Louis Philippe with "Vive le Roi!" after the July Revolution in which he rose to power. Swiss genre painter and lithographer Jean Gabriel Scheffer (1797-1876), who studied with Regnault and was a friend of Corot, Aligny, and Léopold Robert. His work was shown at the Salon de Paris beginning in 1822; his reputation as a designer of many wryly humorous lithographs, typically signed "J.S." was firm. The Plates: 1. Eh bonjour, qu'elle aimable surprise! / Bete de Lisette! 2. Adieu, soyez donc moins rare / Je te consignerai vieux fou 3. Je veux mourir si l'on donne plus de 30 ans / de mariage 4. Mais que dites vous donc? vous avez une mine d'empereur / Le pauvre cher homme n'ira pas loin 5. On n'est jamais laid avec une figure distinguée / ......... ! 6. Toujours de l'esprit! / Grand benet! 7. Monsieur, vous pouvez disposer de moi, je vous suis tout devoué / Encore un diner à celui-là 8. Charmée d'avoir eu le plaisir de faire votre connaissance / Quel lourdaud! 9. Que je suis donc enchanté, mon cher oncle, de vous voir rétabli / Ca recule l'héritage, mais c'est égal 10. Vous pouvez compter, Madame, que j'y emploierai tout mon crédit / C'est vieux, c'est laid, et ca sollicite! 11. Qu'avez-vous donc de si pressé, chère amie? / Elle ne démarrera pas 12. Allons, bon voyage, et revenez nous bien vite / Bon dèbarras! 13. C'est ressemblant, mais vous etes bien mieux que cou / 14. Mademoiselle Delphine a là un bien beau talent / allons, faut avaler le Concerto 15. Ils sont vraiment charmants / C'est a n'y pas tenir 16. c'est délicieux.. c'est un petit paradis terrestre / Il ne me fera pas grace d'un oignon 17. adieu, nous comptons sur vous donnez nous quelques jours ou je ne vous aime plus / Je tremble qu'elle ne vienne 18. et n'oubliez en grosses lettres bon pere, excellent époux, il laisse une veuve inconsolable / 19. eh parbleu ce n'etait pas si pressé / enfin! .. j'en avais déja fait mon deuil 20. C'est une veine; Madame je vous félicite.. je me félicite / le Diable t'emporte! 21. Pas le moindre je vous assure, Madama / G ..... sur mon cor 22. Notre dernier roman est délicieux c'est un interet, un charm indicibles / faut pourtant que j'en lise quelques pages 23. léger, indiscret!.. que vous me connaissez peu!!! / en avant le sentiment 24. Des vertus, des talens, eh que faut-il donc de plus / pour rester fille? 25. mon petit Charles n'a pas cette belle santé / ni cet air commun et pataud 26. mais vous ne mangez pas / Il dévore 27. on vous devait cela; ce n est point une faveur, c'est une justice.. tardive / maitre intrigant! 28. Le Rose, ma chère, vous va a ravir / ca la vieillit de dix ans 29. Savez vous, Madame qu'on s'y abonnerait à votre fortune du pot / Si l'on m'y rattrape! 30. Je donnerais trois operas pour avoir fait votre romance / [musical notes] 31. Quelle folie, mon ami! ai-je besoin de cela? / les pierres sont bien petites 32. eh parbleu, moquez vous des propos, n'avez vous pas votre conscience? ... qui est de bonne composition 33. Comment donc! avec grand plaisir / Ces animaux là me prennent pour un roulage 34. Comment vous y etes pour 60,000 francs! ah j'en suis désolée / C'est bien fait vieux ladre 35. Une perruque! vraiment? eh bien ca ne parait pas.. / plus .. que le nez au milieu du visage 36. Tu étais, je t'assure, la plus jolie du bal / après moi 37. Adieu Caroline, sans rencune. / tu ne le porteras pas en paradis. 38. Je vous en supplie, Madame La Baronne. / Je voudrais bien voir!.. 39. qu'appelez vous jolis vers! Ils sont délicieux, vous êtes trop modeste. / il ne s'égratigne pas. 40. Je suis encore engagéem Monsieur / il est trop bêye. 41. Jules..vous m'avez promis de ne pas entmer ce chapiter. / Si pourtant il allait se décourager 42. Dites donc des coups de maître!.. d'honneur, on ne fait pas mieux. / ..une croute. 43. Je suis bien sare que c'est toi su'il préfère. / Elle est de force à le croir!.. 44. Tenez, vous me donnez là une idée..qui. / n'a pas le sens commun. 45. C'est ce qu'il y a de plus à la mode. / s'il pouvait m'en débarrasser!.. 46. Qu'est ce que ça fait, Mademoiselle qu'il sente le tabac?..on doit toujours caresser son oncle.. / quand il est riche et sans enfans. 47. Il est vrai que c'est une triste existence, maid l'idée seule de cette perte!.. / un devil quand les bals commencent!! 48. Ernest sera désolé de ne pas s' être trouvé ici. / il l'a échappé belle. 49. Vive le Roi! (No. B.) après Juillet 1830, ne confondons pas 50. Alfred! si vous me trompiez! / .. nous serions quittes 51. Et comment n'auriez vous pas d amis avec votre mérite, votre esprit / une bonne table et une jolie femme 52. Eh bien c'est convenu, nous ne ferons pas de toilette / elle sera éblouissante mais je l'éclipserai 53. après vous; le mérite est plus respectable que l'age / le neveu d'une Excellence!! 54. s'il m'en souvient..! / il ne m'en souvient guère 55. bravo colonel, voila un doublé admirable / fameux raccroc! 56. enfin mon ami il faut se resigner / le noir me va très bien 57. vous avez beau rire je n'en aimerai jamais qu'un seul / à la fois 58. s'il y avait doute, bien; mais c'est affaire d'or / .. pour nous autres 59. je le jure... / .. par St. Ignace Loyola 60. Intervention tout pacifique / d'abord.. on verra après Bobins III, #962; Hiler, p. 781; Lipperheide, 3686 (with thirty-six colored plates only). .

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Book number: 05384

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