BOLTON, James ((bap. 1735, d. 1799)

[Ornithology] [Hand-Colored] Harmonia Ruralis: Or, an Essay Towards a Natural History of British Song Birds: Illustrated with Figures, the Size of Life, of the Birds, Male and Female, in Their Most Natural Attitudes

London, printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1830. Quarter-Vellum. New (and preferred) Edition, "revised and very considerably augmented," of one of the most "luxurious" (Coues) eighteenth-century works on British song birds, with the hand-coloring "so much improved." (Jackson) Two volumes bound in one. Royal 4to (314 x 235 mm): xxiv,66; [2],96,[4]pp, with 81 beautifully hand-colored plates (including frontispiece) of male and female songbirds and their eggs and nests (41 of birds, 36 of nests and eggs, 4 portraying both), drawn and engraved by the author. Quarter vellum over blue paper-covered boards, original paper title label printed in black to spine. Volume I only with light (occasionally moderate) spotting throughout, few marginal chips to title label, but a superb example, tightly bound and generally clean throughout with vibrant hand-color. Sitwell, p. 78. Nissen IVB 115 (for first and Bohn editions). Zimmer I, p. 64 (Bohn edition). Jackson (Bird Etchings), pp.169-80. Mullens, pp. 23-24 (quoting Coues, "perhaps the most ornate, or luxurious, work on British Song Birds of the last [eighteenth] Century"). First published in two volumes, in 1794-96. This edition with a table compiled by Daines Barrington rating 17 different song birds for "mellowness of tone," "sprightly notes," "plaintive notes," "compass," and "execution," with the Nightingale ranking 19 out of 20 for four of the five categories. "Bolton is best remembered as the author of three major works, Filices Britannicae (2 vols. 1785-90), An History of Fungusses Growing about Halifax (3 vols. 1788-90; supplement, 1791), and Harmonia ruralis (2 vols. 1794-6), the illustrations to all of which he drew and etched himself." (ODNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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BRADLEY, Will (1868-1962) Carey S. Bliss; Grant Edward Dahlstrom; Bruce Rogers

Will Bradley: His Work, an Exhibition

San Marino, Huntington Library, 1951. Wrappers. Limited Edition of this exhibition handlist, one of unnumbered 1000 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. Introduced by Robert O. Schad. Demy 8vo (229 x 152mm): [2],27,[3]pp, with frontispiece portrait, five further illustrations from lithographs, and headings and initials designed by Bradley. Original salmon pink paper wrappers printed in black, text printed in red and black. An exemplary example (trivial fading to edges), securely bound and clean throughout. Includes Bradley's essay "The Gay Nineties." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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BRANDT, Bill (1904-1983)

[Photobook] the English at Home

London, B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1936. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. First Printing (so stated) of the photographer's first book, introduced by Raymond Mortimer. Royal 8vo (235 x 180 mm): 8pp, with 63 full-page captioned gravure plates by Brandt. Publisher's glazed photographically illustrated boards, spine and upper cover lettered in red, photographic end papers. Wanting the rare unprinted acetate dust jacket. Spine and covers lightly toned, else a clean, bright, firmly bound copy. Roth (101), p. 90. Roth (Open Book), pp. 122-23. Parr & Badger I, p. 138. Auer, p. 230. Brandt's first foray into print, contrasting the English social classes and panning between urban and rural milieus, with the photographer showing himself "not only to be an artist but an anthropologist. He seems to have wandered about England with the detached curiosity of a man investigating the customs of some remote and unfamiliar tribe." (from the Introduction) Most of the photographs appeared here for the first time. The English at Home seems to begin as a conventional photographic celebration of Englishness, with views of a Buckingham Palace guard and double-decker buses crossing London Bridge. But as the book proceeds, the "strictly divided class structure of England is increasingly reflected in the layout, with an image of a desolate street (East End Playground) juxtaposed with children in fine clothes looking bored (Kensington Children's Party) . Compared with the works Brandt would later produce and the ones he would later inspire in Robert Frank and others, The English at Home seems tame, but it had a lasting effect." (Roth 101) "The book is notable for . Brandt's sheer relish for the mysteries and rituals of Englishness. He had privileged access to these through various Brandt uncles and their households. Friends and family acted out various roles in Brandt's photographs. His master in the art of documentary photography, or photojournalism, was the Paris-based Transylvanian Brassai . " (ODNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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BRANDT, Bill (1904-1983)

[Photobook] the English at Home

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. First Printing (U.S. issue, with "Scribners" to tail of spine) of the photographer's first book, introduced by Raymond Mortimer. Royal 8vo (235 x 180 mm): 8pp, with 63 full-page captioned gravure plates by Brandt. Publisher's glazed photographically illustrated boards, spine and upper cover lettered in red, photographic end papers. Wanting the rare unprinted acetate dust jacket. Spine and covers lightly toned, else a clean, bright, firmly bound copy. Roth (101), p. 90. Roth (Open Book), pp. 122-23. Parr & Badger I, p. 138. Auer, p. 230. Brandt's first foray into print, contrasting the English social classes and panning between urban and rural milieus, with the photographer showing himself "not only to be an artist but an anthropologist. He seems to have wandered about England with the detached curiosity of a man investigating the customs of some remote and unfamiliar tribe." (from the Introduction) Most of the photographs appeared here for the first time. The English at Home seems to begin as a conventional photographic celebration of Englishness, with views of a Buckingham Palace guard and double-decker buses crossing London Bridge. But as the book proceeds, the "strictly divided class structure of England is increasingly reflected in the layout, with an image of a desolate street (East End Playground) juxtaposed with children in fine clothes looking bored (Kensington Children's Party) . Compared with the works Brandt would later produce and the ones he would later inspire in Robert Frank and others, The English at Home seems tame, but it had a lasting effect." (Roth) "The book is notable for . Brandt's sheer relish for the mysteries and rituals of Englishness. He had privileged access to these through various Brandt uncles and their households. Friends and family acted out various roles in Brandt's photographs. His master in the art of documentary photography, or photojournalism, was the Paris-based Transylvanian Brassai . " (ODNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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BROOKS, Noah (1830-1903)

[Baseball] the Fairport Nine

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons [from 1880], 1887. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Seldom seen Second Printing (no copy appears in auction records) of this cornerstone of baseball literature. Binding and text duplicate the first printing, excepting date on title page and advertisements (eight pages vs. six in first printing). Crown 8vo (178 x 112mm): viii,[2],188,[8]pp, with tissue-guarded wood-engraved frontispiece. Publisher's pictorial green cloth, front cover stamped in gilt and black with gilt vignette of pitcher framed by baseball diamond, spine lettered and decorated with crossed bats in black and gilt vignette of hitter at bat. An excellent example, securely bound (lightly shelf-rubbed) and clean throughout. Grobani 12-2A and McCue, p. 24 (for first edition and 1889 revised edition only). Not in Smith. Originally serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine, from May to October, 1880, then published in book form that same year. Sometimes credited as the first baseball novel, but according to McCue the fifth fictional work to feature the game. Although earlier authors, from James Fenimore Cooper to William Everett, had featured baseball scenes in their fiction, this was one of the first novels in which baseball played a prominent role. Brooks wrote that The Fairport Nine was based on his boys militia unit and baseball team in Castine, Maine, in the 1840s (see Brooks, "How the Flag was Saved," St. Nicholas Magazine, Vol. XXIII, no. 4, February, 1896). "Characters in the Story" leaf following the contents page lists players and their positions for The Fairport Nine and their opponents, The White Bears. Brooks was a friend of Abraham Lincoln, who he met while reporting on the presidential campaign of 1856. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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[Thames Tunnel Company] [BRUNEL, Marc Isambard, 1769-1849]

Sketches of the Works for the Tunnel, Under the Thames, from Rotherhithe to Wapping

[London], Published by Harvey and Darton, 55, Gracechurch Street, 1831. Marbled Wrappers. Rare issue of this fascinating and fragile pictorial and written record of the first tunnel constructed successfully beneath a navigable river: OCLC records no 1831 edition (but several, dating 1828, '29, and '30), and RBH lists only one copy at auction. Oblong foolscap 8vo (96 x 131mm): 28 unnumbered pages (including title page; some printed one side only as explanations to illustrations), with two steel-engraved plans (one folding, one double-page) and ten plates (two folding, one tinted, one with overlay). Plates by Silvester & Co. Engelmann & Co. M. Dixie, and T. Blood; text printed by the Philanthropic Society, St. George's Fields. Original marbled wrappers, red paper title label to upper cover printed in black. An excellent copy of this fragile production, tightly bound (very skillful restoration to spine; corner of upper cover imperceptibly reattached), text generally clean throughout, some plates with faint unobtrusive water stains. Goldsmiths' 25617. Proposals were being considered in the early 1820s for a tunnel beneath the Thames between Rotherhithe and Wapping, principally to connect the docks under construction on either side of the river's edge. A civil engineer named Marc Isambard Brunel proposed the use of his ingenious self-propelling device, called a "tunnelling shield," to bore the tunnel and was appointed as chief engineer. The first brick was laid on the cast-iron kerb of the Rotherhithe shaft on 2 March 1825, and the shield launched through the shaft wall, 75 feet beneath the river's surface, in December. But the project encountered extraordinary difficulties, "largely on account of the unexpected nature of the geology, which comprised water-bearing sands and gravels where Brunel had expected clay. On several occasions, the river broke into the tunnel, calling for considerable ingenuity and much courage in filling cavities in the river bed by clay and other materials, while restoring damage sustained to the shield. A major irruption on 12 January 1828 led to suspension of the work for more than seven years, the tunnel only half completed and the budget exhausted." (ODNB) The tunnel finally was completed between the two working shafts in December 1841 and opened as a pedestrian tunnel in March 1843. It measures 35 feet wide by 20 feet high and stretched 1,300 feet long. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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BYRON, Robert (1905-1941)

First Russia Then Tibet

London, Macmillan, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of this cornerstone of modern travel writing. Demy 8vo (232 x 155mm): xvi,328pp, with tissue-guarded color frontispiece of the Cathedral of St. Sophia and 24 full-page drawings and photographs (mostly the author's). Publisher's emerald green coarsely woven cloth, spine lettered in gold; later issue Macmillan's Miscellany saffron-yellow dust jacket (as usual: the first-issue jacket is rare) printed in black. An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout (first and final few pages lightly spotted); jacket slightly dust-soiled with small crease to head of spine panel. Here are two separate travel accounts: a cultural tour of Soviet Russia in the 1920's and an excursion along the Indo-Tibetan trade route from Sikkim to Gyantse. Byron traveled to India in 1929, as special correspondent for the Daily Express, and the following year ventured briefly into Tibet. "The first literary result of these experiences was An Essay on India (1931), which, in the opinion of the viceroy, Lord Willingdon, contained the best brief statement of Indian political problems at that time. His Tibetan journey was recorded two years later in First Russia, then Tibet." (ODNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine-/Fine-.

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CATLIN, George (1796-1872)

[American Indians] Die Indianer Nord-Amerikas Und Die Während Eines Achtjährigen Aufenthaltes Unter Den Wildesten Ihrer Stämme Erlebten Abenteuer Und Schicksale... Mit 24 Vom Verfaffer Nach Der Natur Entworfenen Gemälden [Hand-Colored] [Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians]

Brussels and Leipzig, Carl Muquardt, 1848. First Edition thus. Translated into German by Dr. Heinrich Berghous. Imperial 8vo: x,[2],382pp, with 24 tissue-guarded hand-colored plates. Contemporary quarter calf, flat spine in five compartments, lettered and decorated in gilt, stamped in blind; marbled covers, edges and end papers. An excellent copy, binding tight and unmarred, moderate foxing (mostly marginal) to about half of text leaves but plates completely clean and richly colored. Continental editions of Catlin are quite scarce, and this offers reduced-scale versions of the plates in the North American Indian Portfolio at a fraction of the cost. Howes C 243b. Sabin 11539. Pilling 684. Graff 630. First German Edition (published originally in different form, in London, 1841), a hybrid of Catlin's two best known works, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians (1841) and North American Indian Portfolio (1844). The text of this edition is an abridged version of Letters and Notes, while most of the plates are scaled-down versions of the large folio plates of the Indian Portfolio. "As graphic delineations of Indian hunting and dancing scenes, these plates rank next to those of Bodmer." (Howes) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Near Fine .

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Sonstige Stichworte: Indians of North America. Indians of North America—West (U.S.)

CAZOTTE, Jacques (1719-1792; Jean-Émile Laboureur, 1877-1943 (Illustrates)

Le Diable Amoureux, Nouvelle Espagnole [Unopened]

Paris, Chez Camille Bloch, 1921. Limited Edition. Wrappers. Copy No. 534 of 575 copies, "Réimprimée selon l'édition originale," with the final state of the engravings. Demy 8vo (226 x 140mm): ix,[1],152,[4]pp, printed on on Arches vergé, with six full-page burin engravings (including frontispiece), woodcut initials and chapter heading, and inserted sheet of music. Publisher's blue laid paper wrappers, decorative title label printed in black to upper cover, edges uncut. A remarkably fresh copy, completely unopened and virtually pristine. Laboureur 194. First published in 1772, this occult romance recounts the exploits of Satan and his attempts to seduce a young nobleman by taking the form of a beautiful woman. The Le Diable amoureux inaugurated a literary style known as fantastique, in which surreal events intrude on reality, and the reader is left guessing whether the events actually occurred or were merely figments of the character's imagination. Laboureur based his exquisite engravings on the originals. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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CHADWICK, Henry (1824-1908)

[Baseball] the American Game of Base Ball, How It Is Played; a Manual [Chadwick's Baseball Manual]

Philadelphia, [Theodore Holland], 1888. Pictorial Wrappers. First edition of this manual, including playing instructions, rules interpretations, and history. (Cover title: Chadwick's baseball manual). Foolscap 8vo (160 x 113mm): 64pp. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers with wraparound color image of a player attempting to steal second base as the catcher attempts to throw him out. Near Fine or better, with slight waviness to wrappers, thin vertical crease to text block, and mild wear at the corners, else a bright copy of this elusive baseball text. Not in Walker or Smith. Grobani 2-6. A revised edition, retitled The American game—Base-ball, according to the national playing rules of 1889 : how it is played, appeared in 1889. Chadwick has been called the "father of baseball," and his guides were aimed at both players and fans. They included lists of players averages, detailed explanations of the rules of the game, and advice for athletes on how best to prepare for the sport. He authored several reference texts, serial publications, and articles on the sport, and was one of the first to keep track of player statistics, which revolutionized how teams and player performance was evaluated. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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CHAMBERS, Robert (1802-1871)

[Geology] Ancient Sea-Margins As Memorials of Changes in the Relative Level of Sea and Land

Edinburgh & London, W. & R. Chambers & W. S. Orr, 1848. Original Cloth. Scarce First Edition of Chambers's detailed study of sea level changes along the Scottish and English coastlines, illustrated with color folding map. Demy 8vo (228 x 138mm): vi,337,[1]pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece view of St. Andrews links, folding color map of Lochaber, and numerous illustrations in the text. The appendix includes thirteen tables showing the heights of terraces at various locales, primarily in Scotland. Publisher's brown decorative cloth, covers framed in triple blind rule and elaborately blocked in blind with arabesque designs, spine titled direct in black; pale yellow end papers, edges rough-trimmed. Neat owner's inscription to head of half title, dated 1851. An excellent example in original cloth, skillfully rebacked with original moderately faded spine laid down; scar to rear paste-down from which a label was clumsily removed, but firmly bound and generally clean throughout (light spotting to frontispiece and folding map). Geology Emerging 469. Chambers was a Scottish publisher, evolutionary thinker, and journal editor best known for his 1844 work of speculative natural history, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. He was also a keen geologist, here offering evidence of changing sea levels, supporting his view that Great Britain was historically far more deeply submerged. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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CHENEY, Wm. M. (William Murray, 1907-2002)

A Treatise on Pocket Knives

Los Angeles, [Printed at the Press in the Gatehouse], 1964. First Printing. Stiff Wrappers. First Edition of this paean to the pocket knife, enumerating its benefits, shortcomings, and types (including the curved bistoury blade used by surgeons and the seventeenth-century typesetter's coping blade). Foolscap 8vo (101 x 67mm): 36pp, with three full-page plates, decorative initials, and three supplement leaves printed one side only, neatly folded and tipped in at rear. Publisher's burnt orange stiff wrappers printed in black, fore-edge untrimmed. No limitation given, but probably fewer than 150 copies printed, based on Cheney's usual edition sizes for similar items. A fine copy, virtually pristine, of this scarce near-miniature book. Will Cheney at 90 (Clark Library), p. 22. Cheney printed an expanded second edition in 1968, incorporating the information from the first-edition supplements, including, from the Third Supplement, notes on the jackleg knife, which Cheney says was a favorite of wood engraver Thomas Bewick, who "says in his memoirs that returning from a late card game one night he met the devil on a lonely moor. On Bewick flourishing his 'Jackleg' knife, the devil stepped aside and let him pass." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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CHESNUTT, Charles W. (Waddell, 1858-1932)

[African Americana] the Conjure Woman

Boston and New York / Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press, 1899. First Trade Edition. Pictorial Cloth. First Printing of the author's first book, seven interrelated folk tales set in antebellum North Carolina and told "in Negro dialect" by an old gardener. Crown 8vo (175 x 110mm): [4],229,[3]pp. Publisher's finely woven brown pictorial cloth, front cover lettered in gilt, with trio of vignettes stamped in orange, black, and off-white; spine lettered in gilt, title-page vignette. Contemporary calligraphic gift inscription to front fly leaf. An excellent example, securely bound (spine darkened, lettering legible but dulled) and clean throughout (page margins lightly toned). Wright 1017. Powell 91 (One of the first books by a Negro author to receive critical approval."). Blockson (101 Influential Books) 49. First Printings of American Authors III, p. 47. Blockson (Damn Rare), p. 79 (calling The Conjure Woman "rare" and Chesnutt's "first great literary success"). Whiteman, p.14. A collection of short stories as told by Uncle Julius to his white employers, originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, beginning with "The Goophered Grapevine," in 1887, and preceded by a limited edition of 150 copies. In addition to "The Goophered Grapevine," the stories are: Po' Sandy, Mars Jeems's Nightmare, The Conjurer's Revenge, Sis' Becky's Pickaninny, The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt, and Hot-Foot Hannibal, most derived from African American folk tales and hoodoo conjuring traditions. According to Blockson, "The most striking feature of The Conjure Woman is Chesnutt's attempt to challenge the racial integrity of the ante-bellum writers of the plantation South such as Albion W. Touraee, Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Nelson Page, Thomas Dixon, and other white writers." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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[ANONYMOUS]; CLARK, John Heaviside (Engraver, fl. 1789-1830)

[Hand-Colored] Glances at Character [Brent Gration-Maxfield's Copy]

London, Printed by Whittingham and Rowland, Goswell Street; For John Carr, 56, Paternoster-Row, 1814. First Edition. Full Calf. First Edition of this uncommon satirical depiction of various Regency-era character types and memes, in verse. Crown 8vo: viii,158,[2]pp, with eight delicately hand-colored aquatints, including the frontispiece. Complete with half-title and two pages of publisher's advertisements. (In every copy we've seen, plate no. 5, often described as bound out of sequence, is placed between plates nos. 7 and 8, and according to the text, that is where it belongs.) Later full tan calf, covers framed with French fillet and gilt sunburst ornament to corners, richly gilt spine in six compartments divided by raised bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt, gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. From the collection of bibliophile Brent Gration-Maxfield, with his characteristic manuscript ex-libris and tidy bibliographic notes ("collated perfect," "only blemish is a slight mark on the half title"). Gration-Maxfield library was dispersed in a series of sales by Sotheby's in the early 1980s. An excellent, wide-margined, hand-colored example, mild offsetting from plates, a few stray spots, else contents clean, bright, and handsomely bound. Very scarce in commerce and uncommon in institutional collections, with OCLC listing only 10 holdings worlwide. Not in Hardie, Abbey, or Tooley, and only J. Clark (but not this title) mentioned in Prideaux. This anonymous volume of humorous poetry collects 22 works satirizing English eccentrics, among them, the "bounce" (a bullying braggart), the country physician, the slave to fashion, the scholar of dead languages, and old maids and young lovers. The engraver, John Heaviside Clark, was a Scottish painter of seascapes and landscapes active in the first third of the nineteenth century. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Sonstige Stichworte: Characters and characteristics. English poetry—19th century. Personality. Great Britain—Social life and customs—19th century. Caricatures—England—19th century. Engravings—England—19th century.

CLARK, John Heaviside (1770-1863); [William Gilpin, 1724-1804]

A Practical Essay on the Art of Colouring and Painting Landscapes in Water Colours, with Ten Illustrative Engravings; [Bound with] a Practical Illustration of Gilpin's Day, Representing the Various Effects on Landscape Scenery from Morning Till Night, in Thirty Designs from Nature

London, Printed for and sold by Edward Orme, Bond Street, the Corner of Brook Street, 1812. Full Calf. Superb, beautifully colored examples (bound in one volume) of these early guides to watercolor painting: the "first of the coloured drawing books" (Prideaux) and and a "surprisingly elusive" (Martin-Hardie) copy of Gilpin's Day. Royal 4to (350 x 247mm): [4],28pp, with 10 numbered aquatints (six hand-colored; plate IV misnumbered "V") engraved by J. Hamble after Clark; [4],viii,[32]pp, with 30 hand-colored aquatint engravings by Clark after Gilpin. Contemporary Cambridge-style paneled calf, covers with Greek key border in gilt and floral roll and corner pieces in blind, spine (relaid) gilt in six compartments between raised bands, all edges marbled. Provenance: early twentieth-century bookplates of bibliophile Mildred Davey and printer and book collector John Nolty (1851-1930) to front end sheets. A gorgeous, wide margined example, clean and bright throughout. Tooley 144 and 145. Abbey (Life) 108, 109. Martin-Hardie, pp. 119-20. Prideaux, pp. 185-88, 331. Second Edition of A Practical Essay (originally published in 1807), First Edition of Gilpin's Day (reissued in 1824 with altered title and imprint). Clark drew the title of Gilpin's Day from a poem in Gilpin's Essay on Pictorial Beauty, which celebrates the "arch ethereal . pregnant with change perpetual, from the morning's purple dawn, till the last glimm'ring ray of russet eve." Gilpin's Day was intended primarily as a drawing book, with aquatints the "nearest approach to actual water-colour paintings that I have met with in a book." (Martin-Hardie) The 30 plates (each with page of text, except plate 10, which has two pages) give the range of effects from "Dawn of Day" to "Waning Moon," passing through various sunrises, clouds and haze, storms, rainbows, lightning, and moonlight. The plate texts provide precise details for coloring each scene so as to resemble as closely as possible a watercolor sketch. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Sonstige Stichworte: Landscape painting. Watercolor painting -- Study and teaching.