HESS, H[ieronymus]

Galerie Musicale

Paris: Publiée par Engelmann & Cie. 1827. Twelve Exceptionally Rare and Satirical Hand Colored Lithographs Showing Musicians Performing HESS, H[ieronymus]. Galerie Musicale par H. Hess. Paris: Publiée par Engelmann & Cie. [1827]. First (and only) edition. Quarto (10 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches; 276 x 216 mm.). Twelve (of thirteen) satirical hand colored lithograph plates without titles, showing musicians performing. Drawn by Käppelin d'après H. Hess and lithographed by Engelmann & Cie. The missing plate is number eleven. Recently bound by Roger Devauchelle in full violet cloth, printed paper label on front board. Publishers brown printed wrapper/title bound in before the plates. The Plates: 1. [The Conductor] 2. [The Violin] 3. [The Oboe] 4. [The Bassoon] 5. [The French Horn] 6. [The Tenor Trombone] 7. [The Clarinet] 8. [The Flute] 9. [The Bass Trombone] 10. [The Fiddle] 11. 12. [Man playing the Guitar] 13. [Woman playing the Guitar] Hieronymus HESS (1799-1850) was a Swiss draftsman and painter during the first half of the 19th century. He is best known for his time-critical cartoons and templates for Zizenhauser terracotta. His high quality, romantically inspired drawings, watercolors, prints and paintings depict genre scenes, histories, allegories, portraits and caricatures of political, anticlerical and social content. In the latter, Hess' disillusionment broke out over the artistically less open-minded Basler Gesellschaft. His works have historical significance as pictorial documents of the period of restoration and regeneration in Basel. We have only been able to locate one other example in libraries and institutions worldwide - The British Museum (London, UK). Lucien Monod. Le Prix des Estampes, Vol III, p.81 (13 plates). .

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Book number: 04507

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Books in French Caricatures Music French Caricature

FORE-EDGE PAINTING; TAYLOR & HESSEY, binders; COWPER, William

Poems by William Cowper

London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co. 1811. Bound by Taylor and Hessey With an Early Twentieth Century Fore-Edge Painting [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. TAYLOR & HESSEY, binder. COWPER, William. Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. In two volumes. A New Edition. London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co. 1811. With an early twentieth century fore-edge painting by an unidentified artist, showing a man and two ladies seated by a fireplace. The man is reading his newspaper and a dog is seated at his feet. Two octavo volumes bound in one (8 5/16 x 5 1/4 inches; 211 x 133 mm.). [i]-xvi, [1]-438; [i]-vi, [2], [1]-427, [1, blank] pp. Bound ca. 1811 by Taylor and Hessey, Booksellers, London. Stamp-signed in gilt on the fore-edges of the boards "Bound and Sold by" [&] "Taylor and Hessey". Full dark red straight-grain morocco, covers elaborately paneled in gilt, spine with three 'double' raised bands, elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, decorative gilt board-edges and turn-ins, later pink endpapers, all edges gilt. Soundly but rather crudely rebacked with the original spine laid down. "Taylor & Hessey were busy throughout these fifteen years [1808-1823], not only in publishing and in binding, but also in re-binding books published by others. They issued, among other works, Pope's translation of the Iliad and Thomson's Seasons; but they also put fine bindings upon books by Milton, Crabbe, Cowper, Scott, and others, published by Johnson, or by Sharpe, or by Hatchard, or by Reeves, or by Longman.. Taylor & Hessey usually bound their fine books in morocco—red, blue, brown, crimson, green—and "signed" their bindings by stamping their name in gilt in the fore-edge of the binding (not the leaves, note), whenever the boards inside the leather were thick enough to carry the name of the firm.. (C.J. Weber, Fore-Edge Painting, pp. 106-7). .

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Book number: 05169

Catalogue: Fine Bindings

Keywords: TAYLOR & HESSEY, binders COWPER, William Fore-Edge Paintings Nineteenth-Century Literature Poetry

HOFLAND, Mrs

Czarina, the

London: Henry Colburn, 1842. Borscht and Caviar In the Court of Catherine I HOFLAND, Mrs. [Barbara]. The Czarina; An Historical Romance of the Court of Russia. By Mrs. Hofland..In Three Volumes. London: Henry Colburn, 1842. First edition. Three twelvemo volumes (7 5/16 x 4 5/8 inches; 186 x 118 mm.). [2], 302; [2], 317, [1, blank]; [2], 325, [1, blank] pp. Bound without half-titles (possibly as issued?). Contemporary half plum calf, decoratively ruled in blind, over marbled boards. Spines decoratively ruled and numbered in gilt and ruled in blind with four raised bands and brown morocco gilt lettering labels, edges sprinkled red. Spines faded to brown, corners lightly rubbed, spine labels a tiny bit chipped. Some light foxing and browning. Volume I with a few ink smudges on the verso of the title and on the first page of text and a printing flaw (slight ink smear to a few words) on pp. 258 and 259. A very good copy. One of the last novels by Hofland, an extremely prolific - and moralistic - writer. "The patient reader who has followed Mary [our princess] through her many trials, and, we trust, rejoiced in the development of her virtues as a daughter and sister, will not doubt that she became an exemplary as a wife, a mother, and a mistress " (p. 318). Mrs. Barbara Hofland (1770-1844) "was the daughter of Robert Wreaks, a Sheffield manufacturer, who died when she was an infant. She was brought up by an aunt and in 1796 married T. Bradshawe Hoole, a merchant, by whom she had a son. Hoole's death from consumption two years later left her wealthy but the money was subsequently lost through a bad investment, and she turned to writing. A volume of Poems (1805) attracted 2,000 subscribers, mainly out of sympathy. She opened a boarding school at Harrogate on the proceeds, and when this failed she began to write fiction. The History of a Clergyman's Widow (1812) sold 17,000 copies in various editions. In 1808 she married the landscape painter Thomas Cristopher Hofland (1777-1843). The precariousness of an artist's life together with Hofland's natural improvidence and subsequent illness meant that she had to work even harder at her fiction. By 1824 she had produced upwards of twenty titles, the most successful of which, and probably her best, was The Son of a Genius [1812], which drew on her experience of the artistic temperament and also on the emotional legacy of her son's death from consumption. She followed it with The Daughter of a Genius (1823). She was a poplar as well as prolific writer although her fiction, which extended to nearly seventy works, was remorselessly didactic in tone. Towards the end of her career she turned out conventional Victorian three-deckers, including The Czarina (1842), The King's Son (1843), The Unloved One (1844), and Daniel Dennison (1846). She was also an energetic journalist, having begun as early as 1795 with ‘Characteristics of Some Leading Inhabitants of Sheffield', which she published in the Sheffield Courant. She expanded this vein later by contributing gossipy letters about London literary life to provincial newspapers. Her children's books include both history and travel and, despite their moralizing, are attractive and readable. Hofland was a friend of Mary Russell Mitford" (The Oxford Companion to British Women Writers). "[Mrs. Hofland's] work for children includes imaginative textbooks (she centres both histories and travels on invented young people). Some simplified moral judgements apart, it is intelligent and readable. Depth and variety is added in adult works like Iwanowa, or The Maid of Moscow, 1813 (Richardsonian letters; clash of armies and cultures), Katherine, 1828 (delicate psychological analysis of misunderstandings in love), The Captives in India, 1834 (effective use of Eliza Fay), and The King's Son, 1843 (fictional vindication of Richard III)" (The Feminist Companion to Literature in English). Block, pp. 109-110. CBEL III, 734. CBEL (3) IV, 934. Not in Sadleir or in Wolff, who had only two of her works—The Captives in India, A Tale; and A Widow and a Will (1834) and A Season in Harrogate (1812). .

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Book number: 00735

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: English Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature Women Nineteenth-Century Literature Women

HOLLAND, John; [Privately Printed]

Song of a Boy

London: Privately Printed, 1939. Posthumously Published Signed by the Author's Mother HOLLAND, John. Song of a Boy. London: Privately Printed, 1939. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author's mother on the front free endpaper: "To thank you for your/appreciation of my/son's work./Phyllis Holland." Small quarto. [2, blank], [6], 177, [1, blank] pp. Twenty-five plates, twenty-three in color (including frontispiece portrait) and two portraits from photographs. Descriptive tissue guards. Original cream-colored cloth pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and lettered in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt on the rough, others uncut. Inner hinges hint at starting. Minimal foxing at beginning and end. A near fine copy, largely unopened. A memorial book dedicated to the life of John Holland, who tragically died at the age of nineteen. An accomplished artist and poet, he attended Winchester and was destined for Oxford when he died of polio in Dalmatia in 1936. This volume collects his poetry and reproduces a number of his drawings and paintings in color. "John Douglas Holland was born at Basing Houre, Southsea, on August 30th, 1917, and was the only son of Rear-Admiral L.E. Holland. He entered Winchester College when just thirteen..On leaving Winchester he went to the Architectural Association for one term and then decided to go to Oxford and was to have entered Magdalen College in October 1936, but while on a short sketching tour in Yugoslavia he caught infantile paralysis and died at Split, Dalmatia, on July 30th, after six days' illness..These poems and rhymes were written from the age of fourteen. They are not arranged in any particular order of writing as, though some were written out carefully, others were found scribbled here and there in his books and on odd pieces of paper. His paintings, some of which are also reproduced in this book, were, like his poems, quick and unlaboured—done at any moment he might feel in the mood" (preliminary p. [3]). .

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Book number: 00041

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: [Privately Printed] English Literature Poetry Modern Firsts Inscribed Copies Modern Firsts Fine Printing Inscribed Copies Literature

HORT, Sir John J.

Horse Guards, the

London: J. & D. A. Darling, 1850. Ten Charming Hand Colored Lithograph Plates [HORT, Sir John J.]. The Horse Guards, by the Two Mounted Sentries. With twelve coloured illustrations. London: J. & D. A. Darling, 1850. First edition. Octavo (8 11/16 x 5 5/16 inches; 221 x 135 mm.). viii, 104 pp. Ten hand-colored lithograph plates and hand colored lithograph illustrations on the front and rear boards. Publishers hand colored lithograph boards neatly re-backed, yellow coated endpapers. Corners and board edges worn. Early ink signature on front free endpaper. The plates are bright and fresh. Abbey, Life, 363. .

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Book number: 03093

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Caricatures

ROYAL HOUSEHOLD

A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household, Made in Divers Reigns. From King Edward III. To King William and Queen Mary

London: Printed for The Society of Antiquaries by John Nichols sold by Messieurs White and Son, Robson, Leigh and Sotheby, Browne, and Egerton's,, 1790. Royal Household Recipes [ROYAL HOUSEHOLD] A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household, made in divers reigns. From King Edward III. to King William and Queen Mary, also Receipts in Ancient Cookery. London: Printed for The Society of Antiquaries by John Nichols sold by Messieurs White and Son, Robson, Leigh and Sotheby, Browne, and Egerton's, 1790. First edition of this collection of English Royal Household Manuscripts. Large quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 216 mm.). xxxii, 39, [i.e. 43], [3], 15-476 pp. Late eighteenth century sprinkled calf, covers decoratively bordered in gilt, rebacked with the original spine laid down. Spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, red and green morocco labels lettered in gilt, gilt board edges, marbled endpapers, extremities a little worn. The text discusses the duties and management of all of the staff of a royal household, including wages. The book concludes with the first printing of a collection of Fifteenth Century and earlier recipes, "Ancient Cookery. From a Ms. in the Library of the Royal Society, Arundel Collection, no. 344, p. 275-445." Recipes include: Potage de Frumenty, Sauce Madame, Felettes in Galentyne, Chekyns in Sauce, Chaudern for Swannes, Tart de Bry, Alaunder of Beef, and many others. Bitting, p. 532; Maclean, p. 30; Oxford, p. 119. .

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Book number: 05750

Catalogue: Food

Keywords: Cookery

CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé); HUART, Louis; CHAMPS, Victor, binder

Punch à Paris

Paris: Lange Lévy et Comp. 1850. First Edition, Bound from the Original Parts Complete with all six of the original front wrappers and the five leaves of advertisements at the end From the Bibliothèque Antoine Vautier CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé). HUART, Louis. CHAMPS, Victor, binder. Punch à Paris par Cham. Revue Drolatique du Mois. Paris: Lange Lévy et Comp. February - June 1850. Complete with all six of the original front wrappers and the five leaves of advertisements at the end. First edition, bound from the original parts. Small folio (11 x 7 7/8 inches; 280 x 200 mm.). [1]-192 pp. Six full page engraved plates and numerous engravings throughout the text. The six original pictorial front wrappers dated from January thru July 1850 bound in at front. Five leaves of advertisements and one blank bound in at end. Bound by V[ictor] Champs ca. 1900 (stamp-signed in black on verso of front free-endpaper). Three quarter red crushed levant morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands, elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, cockerel-style endpapers. With the small octagonal bookplate of the celebrated collection of Bibliothèque Antoine Vautier on front paste-down. The commencement of Punch à Paris was in February 1850 and was intended to be a monthly published magazine, however in June 1850, after just six issues Punch à Paris had to cease publication "The excessive rigors of the new press law oblige us to suspend our publication". Cham, pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé (1818-1879) has collaborated in many satirical newspapers and has also published a number of albums of lithographs or woodcuts. Very comfortable in political and moral caricatures, he is one of the first to give stories in drawings that will soon be called comics and as such occupies a key place in the history of comics in France, and among the pioneers of the genre. Louis Adrien Huart (1813-1865) was a French journalist, writer and theater director. From 1835, he wrote for Le Charivari, France's main opposition satirical daily, of which he was to become the most assiduous editor. In his literary and theatrical chronicles as well as in his satires of daily political news, he constantly approached the legal limit set by censorship without ever exceeding it. Many legends of lithographs by Honoré Daumier came from his pen. Editor-in-chief of Charivari from 1848, he later became its editor until his death. He had the merit of discovering and promoting young talents from the new generation, such as Henri Rochefort , who without him would have remained a simple employee of the administration. He also wrote the text for several books illustrated by Grandville and Cham. Victor Champs (1844-1912) was one of the most prolific and renowned bookbinders of the late nineteenth century. "His bindings for bibliophiles are sought after by collectors, for the good performance of their body of work and the finish of the work. Together with Carayon, they were the bookbinders who, in relatively simple works, summed up the highest degree of perfection of execution." (Fléty, p.41). Provenance: Bibliothèque Antoine Vautier. One of the great French bibliophiles whose superb collection "Catalogue de Vente aux Encheres" was sold in Paris at Hotel Drouot on April 21st, 1971 and on May 11th, 1977. Hatin, 521. .

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Book number: 05630

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: HUART, Louis CHAMPS, Victor, binder Books in French Caricatures French Caricature

HUGO, Victor; LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB; OFFICINA BODONI; MARANGONI, Tranquillo

Toilers of the Sea, the

Verona: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club, 1960. Dedicated to the Island of Guernsey HUGO, Victor. The Toilers of the Sea. In the translation by Isabel F. Hapgood and with an introduction by Matthew Josephson. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Tranquillo Marangoni. Verona: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club, 1960. Limited to 1,500 copies signed by Giovanni Mardersteig and Tranquillo Marangoni, this being no. 1201. Large octavo (10 5/16 x 7 1/8 inches; 262 x 181 mm.). xxii, 578, [4] pp. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts by Tranquillo Marangoni. Publisher's quarter black cloth over green patterned boards, spine stamped in gold and green leaf. A fine copy in the original pale gray dust jacket, spine printed in green and housed in the original pale green cardboard slipcase. Victor Marie Hugo (1802- 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. The Toilers of the Sea (Les Travailleurs de la Mer) is a novel by Victor Hugo that was first published in 1866. The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Hugo spent 19 years in exile. Hugo uses the setting of a small island community to transmute seemingly mundane events into drama of the highest calibre. The Toilers of the Sea is set just after the Napoleonic Wars and deals with the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon the island. The story concerns a Guernseyman named Gilliatt, a social outcast who falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a local shipowner, Mess Lethierry. When Lethierry's ship is wrecked on the Roches Douvres, a perilous reef, Deruchette promises to marry whoever can salvage the ship's steam engine. Gilliatt eagerly volunteers, and the story follows his physical trials and tribulations, which include a battle with an octopus, as well as the undeserved disapproval and criticism of his neighbors. Limited Editions Club Bibliography, 314. .

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Book number: 03170

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB OFFICINA BODONI MARANGONI, Tranquillo Fine Printing French Literature Signed Limited Edition

HULLEY, Thomas

Six Views of Cheltenham

London: R. Ackermann's, 1813. A Rare Series of Views Showing Cheltenham - the Spa Town at the Height of its Fashion HULLEY, T[homas]. Six Views of Cheltenham: From Drawings made by Mr. T. Hulley. Price, in Colours, £1 1s. London: Published at R. Ackermann's, 1813. Oblong folio (11 1/2 x 14 inches; 292 x 355 mm.). Six superb hand-colored aquatint plates by H. Merke and J. Buck after Hulley. All plates with "London, Pubd. 1 June 1813 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand." The third plate watermarked "J. Whatman 1812". Publishers printed drab stitched wrappers with title and imprint on upper cover within a decorative border. Bookplate of Joel Spitz tipped onto verso of front cover and Maxine and Joel Spitz library stamp on inside of rear cover. Housed in a green cloth clamshell case, spine with black morocco label lettered in gilt. Maxine and Joel Spitz library stamp repeated three times on inside of case. A remarkable survival - a fine uncut copy of this rare series of views showing the spa town at the height of its fashion. This historical account highlights the evolution of Cheltenham from a modest town to a renowned spa destination, driven by the discovery and promotion of its healing spring. The royal visit further solidified its status, and subsequent developments contributed to its popularity in the nineteenth century. The town attracted notable visitors, including Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, and Liszt. Cheltenham is a spa town and borough on the edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England. Cheltenham became known as a renowned health and holiday spa town resort since the discovery of mineral springs there in 1716. The visit of George III with the queen and royal princesses in 1788 set a stamp of fashion on the spa. Cheltenham is famed for its fine Georgian architecture, recorded in the present set of fine fresh plates. Thomas Hulley (active 1798-1819) was a British artist who worked in oil and watercolors. The plates: 1. Montpellier Pump Room. 2. The Assembly Room. 3. Hygeia House. 4. The Crescent. 5. Well Walk. 6. Old Wells & Pump Room. Provenance: Maxine and Joel Spitz (bookplate and ink stamp, sold their sale, Christie's, 27th May, 2015, lot 6). Abbey, Scenery 93; Bobins IV, 1439; Prideaux, p. 331; Tooley 274. .

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Book number: 05683

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Topography Views

IRELAND, Samuel

Picturesque Views on the River Medway, from the Nore to the Vicinity of Its Source in Sussex

London: T. and J. Egerton, 1793. Scarce With Hand-Colored Aquatints IRELAND, Samuel. Picturesque Views on the River Medway, from the Nore to the Vicinity of its Source in Sussex: With observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its neighbourhood. London: T. and J. Egerton, 1793. First edition, the scarce hand-colored issue. Octavo (9 x 6 1/8 in; 229 x 155 mm). xii, 206, [1, adv.], [1] pp. Extra hand-colored engraved title-page, black and wite map, and twenty-eight hand-colored aquatint plates. Bound by Root & Son (stamp-signed) in full brown morocco, with multiple gilt-rolled borders and gilt corner-pieces, gilt-rolled turn-ins. Gilt-ruled and ornamented compartments. Top edge gilt. A fine, clean and tight copy of a book generally found with plates in sepia. "Samuel Ireland (17?-1800) was one of the most successful artists who devoted himself to the career of topographic print-making. In the ten years between 1790 and 1800 he brought out six books of views, containing in all some two hundred and eighty plates, all aquatinted by himself after his own drawings.. He began his artistic career as a copier of prints and a dealer in them, and in 1760 gained a medal from the Society of Arts.. The success of his first book, A Picturesque Tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France (1790) encouraged him to other work of the sort, and in 1793 and 1793 appeared to other books, Picturesque Views on the River Thames and Medway, and later again on the Avon (1795) and Wye (1797) and (posthumously) the Severn (1824). His son, William, was the notorious Shakespeare forger. The London bindery of W. Root & Son consistently turned-out excellent work, both on fine bindings as here, and on trade bindings and sets. Packer lists the firm in business in Red Lion Square in 1899-1901, and the December 1942 issue of The Rotarian notes with regret that W. Root had been bombed out (uprooted?) of their premises on Paternaster Row during the 1941 Blitz. Abbey, Scenery 428. Prideaux, p. 341. .

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Book number: 02662

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Fine Bindings Topography Views Voyages and Travels

IVORY, Lesley Anne, artist

Mau-Mau on Paisley

: , 1990. A Stunning Original Watercolor "Mau-Mau on Paisley" IVORY, Lesley Anne, artist. "Mau-Mau on Paisley". [n.p. n.d. ca. 1990]. Original pen, ink and watercolor, signed and inscribed with title on reverse. Image size: 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches; 115 x 115 mm. Beautifully matted, framed and glazed. (Frame size: 11 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches; 299 x 299 mm.). A gorgeous illustration of "Mau-Mau", a grey cat, with a stunning paisley background. Beautifully framed with a cream quilted mat and metallic gold and white decorative ribbon border. Lesley Anne Ivory has gained her reputation as the world's most popular painter of cats by sustaining a superlative level of invention and craftsmanship. She studied at the art schools of St Albans, Watford and Luton, and, having gained the National Diploma in Design, taught at a school in Bedfordshire. Over a decade, she exhibited wood-engravings of wildlife at the Royal Academy, while creating an increasing demand for her card designs. Now married to the artist Evan Ivory and living in Hertfordshire, she works as a freelance designer and illustrator. As an illustrator, she has published many books, including Cats Know Best (1988), Meet My Cats (1989), Cats in the Sun (1991), Cats Among the Toys (1993) and Star Cats (1998). Never complacent, despite her secure position, she continues to test and stretch herself, both technically and conceptually, advancing by way of a balance between the observing eye and the designing hand. Though she is patiently fascinated by the appearance and behavior of cats, and studies their individuality with constant and precise attention, she is never content with providing a loosely delineated backdrop or with creating hastily sketched verisimilitude. She always thinks in terms of a complete pictorial design, drawing on her impressive knowledge of the history of design in order to extend her own visual language. .

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Book number: 03990

Catalogue: Original Art

Keywords: Cats

JENKINS, James; HEATH, William, artist

Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies; from 1799 to 1815, the

London: Printed for Js. Jenkins.. by L. Harrison & J.C. Leigh, [1814-15]. An Amazing Large-Paper Copy with the Majority of the Plates in Three States [JENKINS, James]. [HEATH, William, artist]. The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies; From 1799 to 1815. London: Printed for Js. Jenkins.. by L. Harrison & J.C. Leigh, [1814-1815]. First Edition, Large Paper Copy with the majority of the plates in three states. Large quarto (13 1/8 x 11 inches; 335 x 277 mm.). Engraved (uncolored) vignette title-page (verso blank); engraved dedication leaf to the Duke of Wellington in two states, uncolored and colored; dedication to Duke of Wellington 2 pp. Description of vignette title (verso blank), Introduction 4 pp. Contents (list of plates) 2 pp. 60 unnumbered leaves of text, List of subscribers 4 pp. Extra 'colored' copy of plate 35 "Siege of St. Sebastian" used as an additional frontispiece and fifty-two hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece (described as vignette title), dedication, and fifty-one views of military scenes and battles, by T. Sutherland, D. Havell, M. Dubourg, J. Hill et al from drawings by William Heath. Forty-nine of the plates are in three states, outline, uncolored and colored. The two other plates (numbers 11 & 18) are in two states, uncolored and colored. Plates watermarked "J. Whatman 1812"; text watermarked, "J. Whatman 1812." With the exception of the 'Duke of Wellington' dedication leaves (uncolored and colored) which are watermarked "J. Whatman 1818" and "J. Whatman 1820", and plate 42 'Blowing up of the Bridge at Elster' which is watermarked "J. Whatman 1820". Contemporary maroon scored calf, covers decoratively paneled in gilt. Expertly rebacked (about 50 years ago) with original spine laid down. Spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt board edges and turn-ins, red cloth endpapers, all edges gilt. Bookplate of Joel Spitz on front paste-down. Housed in a fleece-lined red buckram slipcase. A wonderful copy with the majority of the plates in three states. Abbey had a large-paper copy in the original thirteen parts (December 1814 through December 1815), but with the plates in colored state only. He makes no mention of copies with the 'plates in three states' - only Tooley makes note of this. It is quite fascinating to see the progression of the plates from the outline to the uncolored and then finally to hand-coloring. Provenance: acquired from Ackermann, Chicago, 1944. Excessively rare - the last copy with the plates in three states to appear at auction was nearly forty years ago. The Abbey copy (together with the Naval Achievements) sold for just under $9,000 in April 1976. In a discussion of color plate books on Wellington and Waterloo ("a literature in themselves"), Prideaux distinguishes this volume and Jenkins's 1817 companion volume, Naval Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies, as "worthy of their theme; nor could one desire a finer record of heroic deeds" (pp. 223, 224). William Heath (1794 - 1840) was a British artist. His early works often dealt with military themes, and this is probably the best known of his illustrated military books. Some of his later caricature works were published under the pseudonym Paul Pry. Abbey Life 365; Prideaux, p. 34; Ogilby, British Military Costume Prints, 498; Tooley 281 ("Large-paper copies exist with the plates in three states."). .

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Book number: 03340

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: HEATH, William, artist Fine Bindings Caricatures English History Voyages and Travels

JENKINS, James

Naval Achievements of Great Britain from the Year 1793 to 1817, the

London: Printed for J. Jenkins.. by L. Harrison, 1817. First Edition, First Issue With Pre Publication Watermarks Fifty-Five Superb Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates JENKINS, James. The Naval Achievements of Great Britain from the Year 1793 to 1817. London: Printed for J. Jenkins.. by L. Harrison, [1817]. First edition, First Issue With Pre-Publication Watermarks Large quarto (13 7/8 x 11 5/16 inches; 352 x 287 mm.). xii, pp. (including dedication, introduction, list of plates and list of subscribers) and [74] leaves of descriptive text. Engraved title with hand-colored vignette and fifty-five hand-colored aquatint plates by T. Sutherland, J. Baily, and J. Jeakes after T. Whitcombe and Pocock. One uncolored plate with plan of the Bombardment of Algiers and plan of the Battle of Trafalgar. Text watermarked J. Whatman 1812; twelve plates watermarked J. Whatman 1811 and two plates watermarked J. Whatman 1816. Bound without the list of subscribers. Contemporary half red roan over marbled boards. Spine with five double raised bands, ruled in blind and lettered in gilt in compartments. Armorial bookplate of William Hutton on front paste-down. A large and tall example (Abbey's copy measured 13 1/8 x 10 5/8 inches). In this copy, which is a first issue with pre-publication watermarks throughout, the engraved-title vignette is colored. This is quite unusual with early issues as all the literature states that only later issues had the title vignette colored. "As in the "Martial Achievements" there are late issues of the plates which must be examined to see that the watermarks are pre-publication. Some copies of this work have one or two additional plates, namely portraits of Nelson and Lord St. Vincent. The work is complete without them. Copies were issued with the plates on India paper and also in etched outline. Some large-paper copies have the plates in three states. More sought after than the Martial Achievements, it is becoming uncommon". (Tooley p. 234-5). "Collectors should note that evidence of early state in this book can be found in the title-page vignette, originally issued uncoloured, and coloured only in later issues. The book was reprinted as late at 1840, copies having been seen with watermarks of the date." (Abbey, Life. p. 287). Abbey's copy measured 13 1/8 x 10 5/8 inches. Abbey, Life, 337; Bobins II, 360; Tooley 282. .

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Book number: 04313

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: English History Naval and Military

JOHNSON, Samuel; Fitzgerald, Percy; Hill, G. Birkbeck

Critical Examination of Dr. G. Birkbeck Hill's "Johnsonian" Editions Issued by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, A.

London: Bliss, Sands & Co. 1898. Fitzgerald on Hill's Johnson [JOHNSON, Samuel]. FITZGERALD, Percy. A Critical Examination of Dr. G. Birkbeck Hill's "Johnsonian" Editions Issued by the Clarendon Press, Oxford. London: Bliss, Sands & Co. 1898. The first edition of this celebrated instance of the pot calling the kettle black. Quarto (10 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 258 x 191 mm.). [8], 86, [2, advertisements] pp. Original gray printed wrappers. Unopened. A fine copy. .

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Book number: 00872

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Fitzgerald, Percy Hill, G. Birkbeck English Literature Johnsoniana Literature

JOHNSON, Samuel; Fitzgerald, Percy; Hill, G. Birkbeck

Critical Examination of Dr. G. Birkbeck Hill's "Johnsonian" Editions Issued by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, A.

London: Bliss, Sands & Co. 1898. Fitzgerald on Hill's Johnson [JOHNSON, Samuel]. FITZGERALD, Percy. A Critical Examination of Dr. G. Birkbeck Hill's "Johnsonian" Editions Issued by the Clarendon Press, Oxford. London: Bliss, Sands & Co. 1898. The first edition of this celebrated instance of the pot calling the kettle black. Quarto (10 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 258 x 191 mm.). [8], 86, [2, advertisements] pp. Original gray printed wrappers. A fine copy. .

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Book number: 00873

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Fitzgerald, Percy Hill, G. Birkbeck English Literature Johnsoniana Literature