The Works of William Hogarth, in a Series of 150 Steel Engravings... : with descriptions and comment on their moral tendency, to which are added anecdotes of the author and his works by J. Hogarth and J. Nichols. In Two Volumes by Hogarth) Rev. John Trusler; J. Hogarth and J. Nichols

Good copy of this beautifully illustrated book of classic fables with realistic animal studiesComplete with 56 etchings, drawn and engraved "from the life" by Samuel Howitt, with title page and list of platesPlate 32, The Dog in the Manger, bound opposite the title page as the frontispieceSamuel Howitt (1756–1822) was an English painter, illustrator and etcher, famous for his scenes with animals, hunting, horse-racing, sporting and landscapes. He is best known for his illustrations to Captain Thomas Williamson's Oriental Field Sports (1807). Other works include Thoughts on Hunting (1798), Miscellaneous Etchings of Animals (1803), British Field Sports (1807); The Angler's Manual (1808), Groups of Animals (1811), The British Sportsman (1812) and Foreign Field Sports (1819).Blue buckram spine, marble boards bumped and darkened, new endpapers, tissue guards, all plates with varying degrees of spotting and foxing, mostly outside the image, one with 10cm tear within image, first 25 plates with small… Read More

[Manchester, England]:: Darren Marsh,, 2020.. Edition of 6. 3 bookworks each 16.8cm x 28.4cm. Each bookwork an 8 page bound concertina. Unfolds in spreads and can be read as one continuous piece. Archival digital print on 280gsm Titanium Lustre silver resin coated paper. Archival linen hingesMirri Blanco Pearl 220gsm covers. Blue and gold inked paper cover labels. Blue and gold inked paper banderole. All content, design and production by Darren Marsh. Includes Certificate of Authenticity signed and numbered by artist. Darren Marsh: "weneverstoodapart is a visual poem about our relationship with other beings, both human and non-human. We have constructed our worlds with humans as the dominant or central character, and so find ourselves in an ecological and political era which mirrors the impact this brings to all life and the planet. "A civilisation that chooses to drive ecological change, while refusing to acknowledge its own interdependence and interconnectedness,… Read More

A very good copy of a scarce edition of the Dance of Death.Complete with handcoloured woodcut frontispiece and 10 other woodcuts by an unknown artist (perhaps Wenceslaus Hollar).One of "400 copies plain" from an edition of 460 (60 copies were issued with handcolour). The 11 subjects are: The Count (handcoloured), The Pope Crowning an Emperor, Emperor, Empress, Queen, Bishop, Abbess, Canoness, Soldier, Physician and Preacher. According to the author, "the blocks illustrating this work are a series found in a northern printing office many years ago. They seem to be of considerable age." Elsewhere, he identifies the owner to be Joseph Temple, a Hull printer and newspaper publisher. According to the exhaustive Dance of Death website dodedans.com, the woodcuts here follow the 1816 re-issue of Wenceslaus Hollar's reworking of Arnold Birckmann's copies of Holbein's woodcuts. The engravings lack any artist's initials or signatures.Thomas Tindall Wildridge (1858-1928) was a librarian, antiquarian, artist and… Read More

Very good copy of Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection of intimate family sketches12 charming portraits on steel, hand tinted to give the impression of pastel sketchesFrontispiece engraved bust, engraved title page and 12 hand-coloured engraved plates.A snapshot of the family and friends of the most popular portrait artist in Georgian EnglandThe subjects include:Lady Emma Hamilton, scandalous mistress of Lord Horatio Nelson, in see-through dress and turban, looking up most ravishingly.Self-portrait of Sir Thomas Lawrence, and portraits of his innkeeper father Thomas Lawrence and mother Lucy Read, depicted close to death. Cute portraits of his nephews Thomas Lawrence Bloxam, Rowland Bloxam and Henry Bloxam, all in dresses and ribbons.Two depictions of his niece Mary Isabella Bloxam, as a young girl and once again as a young woman.The Calmeady children in an embrace.Two unknown girls, one in a lace bonnet. His niece Lucy Meredith.Lady Augusta Lowther, Countess of Fane, wife of the 1st Earl of Lonsdale. Sir… Read More

Book cover like new - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
Jacket near new, modest edge/shelf wear; protected in fresh mylar sleeve.
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Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769¬1830) was the most gifted and successful British portrait painter in the generation following Gainsborough and Reynolds, and his pre-eminence was confirmed by his election as President of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1820. Yet Lawrence¬"s work has often been dismissed as flashy and meretricious. This beautifully illustrated, eloquently written, and comprehensive account reverses that view, demonstrating that Lawrence was an intelligent, hard-working, and profoundly conscientious artist.The book is the first sustained study of Lawrence¬"s work in many years, and the first ever to look closely at his highly accomplished drawings as well as his paintings. Tracing the steps in his career, Michael Levey analyses and… Read More

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1925. First edition, the second issue binding in blue cloth hardback, with title and decoration in black. Includes portrait frontispiece in the 162 plates, with explanatory paper guards. No dust jacket. Boards are rubbed at edges and slightly soiled. Inside clean and tidy, with some light foxing throughout. Binding is sound with no shaking or loose plates. Overall in good condition. 290 x 230 mm (11½ x 9 inches) Première édition, deuxième édition reliée en toile bleue, avec le titre et la décoration en noir. Comprend un portrait-frontispice dans les 162 planches, avec des gardes de papier explicatives. Pas de jaquette. Les plats sont frottés sur les bords et légèrement salis. L'intérieur est propre et bien rangé, avec quelques rousseurs légères. La reliure est solide, les planches ne tremblent pas et ne se détachent pas. Dans l'ensemble en bon état. 290 x 230 mm

A radical working class group of queer graphic artists who took the agitation prop poster form to its limit.Each page is a graphic /art entirety.A powerful statement of the cutting edge radicalism of its time. Some pages shown in the V&A Museum
Printed on coated art paper each page (or opening) is an graphic entity that can be photocopied and used as a fly poster. It followed the format of 'Flyposter Frenzy' by Matthew Fullwer.
Copy now sold to support a working class artist's initiatives.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing. A wonderful copy of this magnificent book- SIGNED, with silver ink-splash, INSCRIBED to the previous owner & DATED, and with an accompanying drawing. A Fine copy in Fine unclipped dustjacket.

San Francisco: Synaesthesia Press, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Chap book in which Barry Gifford recalls a visit to see Willlam S. Burroughs at the Bunker. Hand-sewn wrappers with die-cut cover, pp. 4, illustrated by Billy Childish. One of 26 lettered copies from a total edition of 176. Signed by both the author and artist at the title-page and includes three additional woodcuts created for the book by Billy Childish - these are enclosed in an envelope laid in. All presented in a larger, illustrated manilla envelope which shows minor creasing, the book itself and prints are in immaculate, Very Fine condition.

Near fine copy of the First Series of these charming portraits of the children of English aristocracy
Complere with 10 very fine steel engravings of chocolate-box Victoriana
Toddlers and teenagers in ringlets, satin and taffeta, both boys and girls in cute dresses.
One poem by Benjamin Disraeli, MP, who mourns the death of one of the subjects, Susannah Copley, at the tender age of 15.
The portraits by eminent artists such as Alfred Edward Chalon, John Bostock, and Daniel Maclise. The engravings by William Henry Mote, Henry Cook, H. Robinson and J. Thomson.
Supervised by Charles Heath, 1785-1848, British engraver, currency and stamp printer, publisher and illustrator.
Edited by Louisa Fairlie (1881-1843), writer and editor, wife of John Fairlie, niece of Lady Blessington (who contributes one poem).
The poems dedicated to the children by a variety of authors including Benjamin Disraeli MP (future Prime Minister), Lady Blessington (Irish novelist Marguerite Gardiner), Henry Lytton Bulwer (future MP),… Read More