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Published by Longman & Co, London, 1834
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: VG. 1st. Folio. Brown embossed cloth, gilt decorated on spine and front panel. 50 plates, one per page, engraved on copper. Only 48 plates called for but two extra of Fulham and Richmond Hill. Plates are in wonderful, unfoxed condition. Large ink name to endpaper. Cloth splits on spine but hinges doing nicely. Clean copy.
Published by London: David Bogue, [1850], 1850
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. [23] leaves of text and 20 colour engravings each with tissue guard. (4to) 32.5x24 cm (12¾ x 9½") period three-quarter blue morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt. Edges worn, front hinge open; paper a bit toned but overall internally near fine.Henry Vizetelly, Printer and engraver, Gough Square, Fleet Street"Plates engraved by Louis Marvy; after Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, J.M.W. Turner, J. Holland, Francis Danby, Thomas Creswick, William Collins, Richard Redgrave, Frederick Richard Lee, George Cattermole, William James Mu?ller, James Duffield Harding, Peter Nasmyth, Richard Wilson, Edward William Cooke, John Constable, Peter De Wint, David Cox, Thomas Gainsborough, David Roberts, and Clarkson Stanfield. Each plate is followed by a short critique by Thackeray. Thackeray was an old friend of Marvy, a French artist, who took refuge in London after the chaos of 1848. Theodore Taylor's 1864 biography of Thackeray mentions the history of the book: ?A fine and skillful landscape painter himself, M. Marvy, while here, as a means of earning a living, made a series of engravings after the works of our English landscape painters. The publishers, however, would not undertake the work without a series of letter-press notices of each picture from Thackeray; and the latter accordingly added some criticisms which are interesting as developing his theory of this kind of art? (p.32). An interesting and quite scarce Thackeray item, very rarely found colored.Abbey, Life in England, no 207 : "The majority of the copies issued were uncoloured.".
Published by John and Arthur Arch, et al., London, 1826
Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Two volumes, bound folio in contemporary half morocco over burgundy cloth boards, in custom cloth slipcase & chemise. Gilt titles and raised bands to spines; marbled endpapers. Hinges professionally restored, at endpapers. Moderate rubbing to extremities of covers. Edges toned, and some varied foxing, scattered to text, but more to plates, where it mostly affects the margins and much less the actual images. Old owner's mark to preliminary page in each volume. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome set. 80 engravings -- collates complete. Book.