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A New Work of Animals: Principally Designed From the Fables of Aesop, Gay, and Phaedrus
by Samuel Howitt
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/None
- Seller
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Item Price
$250.00$212.50
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About This Item
Good copy of this beautifully illustrated book of classic fables with realistic animal studies
Complete with 56 etchings, drawn and engraved "from the life" by Samuel Howitt, with title page and list of plates
Plate 32, The Dog in the Manger, bound opposite the title page as the frontispiece
Samuel 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 hole near the edge of the page, outside plate mark.
Complete with 56 etchings, drawn and engraved "from the life" by Samuel Howitt, with title page and list of plates
Plate 32, The Dog in the Manger, bound opposite the title page as the frontispiece
Samuel 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 hole near the edge of the page, outside plate mark.
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- Bookseller
- Florilegius
(JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Flo231
- Title
- A New Work of Animals
- Author
- Samuel Howitt
- Illustrator
- Samuel Howitt
- Format/Binding
- Buckram spine, marble boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Edward Orme
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1811
- Size
- Quarto, 27 x 21cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Samuel Howitt, New Work of Animals, fable, illustration, zoology, moral, etching, copperplate engraving, Aesop,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Prints;
Terms of Sale
Florilegius
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Florilegius
Biblio member since 2019
Tokyo, Tokyo
About Florilegius
Tokyo-based bookseller specializing in European illustrated books from the 18th to 19th century, mainly botanical, zoological, costume and travel. Also Japanese ukiyo-e and woodblock botanicals, flower arrangement, etc.
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