William combe text (6 risultati)

8vo. 376pp, colour frontis, 3 colour plates. Original decorated maroon cloth gilt. Extremes lightly rubbed; light text age-browning.

Full-Leather. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Complete 2 Volume Set. Full leather bindings with gilt decorations on front and rear covers. Marbled edges and endpapers. Professionally repaired hinges. Volume I: xx + 330 + 6 page index at rear. Includes List of Subscribers and Arrangement of Plates. Volume II: 275 pages + 4 page index at rear. Includes all hand-colored plates and the uncolored plan of the abbey. Minor foxing to endpapers. A beautiful set.…

Morocco. Condizione: Near Fine+. Second Edition. Second Edition of this volume of light satirical verse, published the same year as the first, with initials of the authors now subjoined to each incident. Royal 8vo: [8],xv,[1],215,[1]pp, with 21 hand-colored engravings (including frontispiece) by Thomas Rowlandson after drawings by J. Green, showing "comically all the delights and amusements of a fashionable watering-place." (Hardie) "Plate 8, 'The Warm Bath,' is said to contain the portrait of Mrs. Robinson, George IV's mistress." (Tooley). Elegantly bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full burgundy morocco, covers with triple gilt (French) fillets, spine richly tooled in gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled end papers. Light, scattered foxing and brief rubbing to joints, else an exceptionally pleasing copy. Abbey, Scenery 297-98. Tooley 422. Prideaux, pp. 144-145. Grolier Rowlandson 66 (for first edition). Hardie, p. 170. Franklin, pp. 72-74 ("The plates are very beautifully done . . . "). Text by William Combe, most famous as author of The Tour of Doctor Syntax; clergyman, abolitionist and bibliophile Francis Wrangham, who also produced a bibliography of Scarborough; and architect and designer John Buonarotti Papworth. One of England's oldest and most fashionable seaside resorts, Scarborough in Yorkshire grew as a major destination for therapeutic sea-bathing from the mid-18th into the 19th century. "It appears that Mr. Green, the artist, during a visit to Scarborough in the season of 1812, made various pleasing and humorous sketches of the most striking objects . . . and that some of his poetical friends, to whom they were shown, undertook the task of illustrating and giving them effect by appropriate sketches in verse." (The Monthly Review, Vol. LXXII (1813), p. 73). 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.).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 2 volumes complete. FIRST EDITION, first printing.(ii), 330, (vi); 275, (iv), complete with 83 aquatint plates (81 hand-coloured) including an engraved plan and portrait of William Vincent, by J.Bluck, J.Hamble, T.Sutherland and others, after A.Pugin, F.Mackenzie, H.Villiers, T.Uwins, &c. Lacking half-titles and list of subscribers. The plate titled "Aymer de Valance" in volume 2 is signed A. Pugin. A little light offsetting from some plates, but a handsome clean set. Original 19th century half morocco leather with spine professionally relaid. Moderat wear to the extremities. Exlibrary but with just one library stamp on the free endpaper and behind the title page. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. 4to. pp. xviii, [2]plate list, 330, [6]index; 2 p.l., 275, [4]index. complete with list of subscribers & half-titles wanting. 1 engraved plan, 1 engraved portrait, 1 hand-coloured line engraving, & 80 hand-coloured aquatint plates (incl. frontis. & title) by J.Bluck, J.Hamble, T.Sutherland, & others after A.Pugin, F.Mackenzie, H.Villiers, T.Uwins, &c. contemporary calf, rebacked with gilt spines mounted, all edges gilt (spine ends & joints rubbed, plates offset, scattered foxing - generally light & occasional light embrowning). First Edition, First Issue. Tooley 2. Abbey, Scenery, 213. Prideaux p. 331.…

Condizione: Near fine. First Edition, second issue. In Two volumes, large 4to; 12 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. (325 x 272 mm), with all 83 plates, 81 of which are colored aquatints by J.Bluck, J.Hamble, T.Sutherland and others, after A.Pugin, F.Mackenzie, H.Villiers, T.Uwins, &c. Includes the half-titles; list of subscribers and arrangement of plates. Vol. 1 pp. xx + 330 + vi index, and 4 plates-2 colored aquatint plates and 2 uncolored engravings of a) floorpan b) portrait of William Vincent, Dean of Westminster opposite the dedication page. Vol. 2 pp. 275 +iv index, 79 colored aquatints. Hands binding in navy crushed morocco by Doverley and Sons, with gilt fillets and decorations on cover, scrolls on turn-ins. Spine gilt with decorations and floral patterns, gilt title and date, 5 double raised bands with four red bands; gilt decorations on edges, marbled end-papers, a.e.g. Some light offset from the plates and foxing only on the letterpress for one gathering towards the end of Vol. 2, not affecting the plates. This is the second issue, with the plate Aymer de Valence" signed "A. Pugin del't" and not the first state of the plate signed in error "F. Mackenzie" (Abbey Scenery 213 & 214). In our copy this plate is bound at the beginning of the Vol. 1, and not in Vol.2 as indicated in the arrangement of plates sheet. [Abbey Scenery 213; Tooley 2; Prideaux p. 124-125; Lowndes vol. 7, p. 2889; Bobins 608]. A very handsome set with many brightly-colored aquatints. In the introduction of the book the author writes: "The Collegiate Church of Westminster may, without fear of contradiction, be considered as one of the most interesting edifices in the British Empire." After the success of The Microcosm of London (1808-1810) Ackerman took on the project of a two-volume work on Westminster, which was first published in sixteen monthly numbers and issued in 2 volumes in 1812. ". Ackermann had issued his History of Westminster Abbey (1812), and when complete, he had all the original drawings for the seventy plates which had been made by Aug. Pugin, Fred Mackenzie, H. Villiers, G. Shepherd, Thompson, T. Unwin, and W. J. White, bound up with the letterpress printed on vellum, making a unique copy. Mr Papworth prepared a special design, with Gothic details, for the brass mountings and clasps for the two volumes, which cost £120. This copy Ackermann valued so highly that he used to provide a pair of white kid gloves for the use of the person to whom was granted the favour of inspecting it. He sent a copy of the book to Mr Papworth inscribed with his sincere regards and a draft for £50." [Prideaux, S. T. Aquatint Engraving; A Chapter in the History of Book Illustration. London, Duckworth & Co., 1909. p.123. According to Tooley this vellum copy with its original drawings may be see in a glass case at Westminster Abbey. [English Books with Coloured Plates; London: Bratsford, 1954; p. 7] RUDOLPH ACKERMANN (1764 - 1834) was an German-born bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman. He moved to Paris at a young age and settled in London at 23. In 1795 he established a print-shop and drawing-school on the Strand, very close to the Royal Academy of Arts and his business quickly expanded and flourished. As a publisher Ackermann was both creative and efficient, bringing to the commercial production of color plate books innovative techniques and an uncompromising attention to detail which ensured uniform high quality (ODNB). He was also an innovator in carriage design and was an early adopter and promoter of gas lighting. WILLIAM COMBE (1742 - 1823) was a British writer best known as the author of The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax, a comic poem, illustrated by artist Thomas Rowlandson's color plates. He also wrote the texts for various illustrated books, including Oxford, Cambridge and Westminster published by Ackermann.…