[HASSELL'S DRAWING MAGAZINE OF RURAL SCENERY ...] by Hassell, John - 1809

[ London: Published by Thomas Tegg, 1809. Seventy parts, disbound folded signatures, comprised solely of images and captions, accompanied by aquatint caption titles for volumes one and two (without wrappers). Some occasional foxing, dusting and offsetting, a few marginal smudges, but a good lot. A partial, broken run of numbers 1 - 74, lacking numbers 14, 48, and 65. The periodical is scarce; the entry in COPAC for the holding at Oxford indicates a total of 100 numbers were published, each consisting of four or more illustrations, on four panels of a folded quarto sheet. Numbers were issued in printed wrappers, which bore the title, imprint and adverts. The illustrations often present a single view replicated in outline and aquatint, and occasionally other intermediate states, suitable for instruction. Hassell produced the majority of the illustrations, but a few are after drawings by George Morland. Most of the images depict rural activities, scenery, and/or livestock; others are floral, including a couple of instances where the aquatint is colored. Some of the plates were also utilized in variant forms of the publication. Examples of the individual parts in the original printed wrappers are rare; for example, the British Art Center at Yale has only parts 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, & 10 in wrappers. OCLC: 54272639.