Quizem caleb (4 risultati)
Editore: Thomas Tegg, 1809
- Rilegato
Da: Arader Galleries of Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.Arader Galleries of Philadelphia, PA
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleCondizione: Usato - Buono
EUR 532,12
EUR 3,87 spedizioneSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Good. Cherry red leather bordered in gold with 5 raised ribs fold out color illustration in front plus other color illustrations throughout the contents and pages all vg but boards becoming Dis- attached.
Altre immaginiEditore: Thomas Tegg, London, 1809
- Rilegato
- Prima edizione
Da: Bagatelle Books, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.Bagatelle Books
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleMembro dell’associazione: IOBA
Condizione: Usato - Ottimo
EUR 1108,59
EUR 5,17 spedizioneSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octodecimo. 4 x 6.25 in. 104 pp. Fine in the original red morocco with pristine gilt titling and decor. The binding and boards are firm and in terrific shape. The pages are clean and free of foxing, except for a single pencil notation on…the front free endpaper. This copy contains a fold-out frontis piece and 27 hand-colored plates by Rowlandson. This copy is housed in a red cloth fall-down-back box with a leather spine. A collection of humorous letters coupled with color plates.
Altre immagini- Rilegato
Da: Nangle Rare Books, Dorchester, Regno UnitoNangle Rare Books
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 2 stelleCondizione: Usato - Molto buono
EUR 1018,91
EUR 25,43 spedizioneSpedito da Regno Unito a U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Hand-coloured folding frontispiece engraved by Thomas Rowlandson after Henry Bunbury. Also with hand-coloured vignette title of a rider falling from Pegasus, and 26 further hand-coloured plates by Rowlandson after H. Bunbury and others. Thomas Tegg, 1809. Small 8vo. 104 pp. 19thC…cloth-backed marbled paper covered boards. [Not in Abbey or Tooley.] Very scarce.
Altre immaginiEditore: London: Thomas Tegg, 1809, 1809
Da: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
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EUR 1729,40
EUR 8,61 spedizioneSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrello"Esteemed on Account of its Humorous Plates by Rowlandson" Rare In the Original Printed Boards [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, engraver]. QUISEM, Caleb (pseud.). The Annals of Sporting. London: Thomas Tegg, 1809. First edition. Twelvemo (6 3/4 x 4 in; 171 x 105 mm). [10], 104 pp., untrimmed. Hand-colored fold-out frontispiece engraved by T…homas Rowlandson after Henry Bunbury, hand-colored vignette title of a rider falling from Pegasus, and twenty-seven hand-colored etched plates including folding frontispiece) by Thomas Rowlandson after H. Bunbury,George Moutard Woodward, and possibly others. Publisher's original printed boards, expertly and almost invisibly rebacked with the original spine laid down. A superb copy, rare in the original printed boards. Housed in a fleece-lined black pebbled-cloth drop-back box. The plates include: "The Bucephalus Riding Academy for grown Gentlemen" (frontispiece); "How to Vault from the Saddle;" "The True Method of sitting on a Horse Mathematically Delineated;" "How a Man may Shoot his own Wig;" "The Maid of Mim;" "Costume of Hogs Norton" (two plates); "Game Wigs" (two plates); "Hounds" (two plates); "Mathematical Horsemanship" (six plates); "Fashionable Furniture at Hogs Norton" (two plates); and "The Bailiffs Hunt" (eight plates). Commonly rebound, the book is rather rare in the publisher's boards (original price 10s. 6d). The identity of "Caleb Quizem" has yet to be determined; he appears to have written only one other book, Economy: a Pindaric Tale in Three Parts (1811). "First edition of a coloured-plate Sporting-book, which is esteemed on account of its humorous plates by Rowlandson. Written in the form of 16 letters to, and answers by Mr. C. Quizem, Spelt Quisem on wrap [and boards]" (Schwerdt). Not found in Abbey, Tooley, nor, surprisingly, Siltzer. Schwerdt II, pp. 119-120 (rebound). Grego, Rowlandson the Caricaturist, p. 178. Falk, p. 216. Grolier, Rowlandson, 63.
