Engravings Henry Moses (4 results)

HC. Condition: good, brown cloth (hardcover). B&W plates (illustrator). ".AFTER ENGRAVINGS BY HENRY MOSES AND OTHERS." 60 plates with 2 images per plate.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Moritz Retzsch; engravings by Henry Moses (illustrator). This is a tale of two something or others, the covers are quite worn and the spine is missing but the pages with the twenty-six etchings are all in excellent condition. There is none of the foxing I have seen in other listings where photographs are included. There is very close to no soiling at all, in total a spot or two and a few specks-- and I turned over every page. The frontispiece which is not counted among the 26 etchings does have a very light tan spot at its center. Across the way is an etching of Goethe which is in excellent condition. The following page is the title page, then the one-page Introduction with the first plate across from it. After that you have a selection from Goethe's Faust and a Plate across from it. The verso sides of both the Text page and the Plate page are blank. So it's text, plate, blank page, blank page, text, plate, blank page, blank page. All the way through. Curiously, in a good number of instances you can see lightly some of the tracings of the figures in the etchings on the text pages across from them. I'm confident that would be the case with all of the copies of this edition. The tracings, where they occur, are quite light and have absolutely no impact on one's ability to read the print (I have provided a photograph). The text pages and pages with the Plates are also in very good condition. I'm not seeing any creasing. I didn't see any tears. There are no markings on any of them or anywhere in the book. There are no attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. With all that said, the binding of the pages is not wonderful. The inside covers and end papers are blue. The blue front end paper and the two white end papers that follow it are bound together in one gathering. The next bound gathering takes us through to the second plate. The next to the sixth plate. The next bound gathering takes us through to the tenth plate. The next to the fourteenth. The next to the eighteenth (I'm seeing a pattern). The next to the twenty-second. The next to the text page of the twenty-sixth. And in the last gathering of pages there is the twenty-sixth plate, one blank end paper and one blue end paper. Each of these gatherings is detached from the other gatherings. The blue front end paper has some late staining off its inside edge and small losses off its bottom edge. One other thing: the page edges are all gilt. They look very bright. 'Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch was a German painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He was born in the Saxon capital Dresden. He joined the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1798 under Cajetan Toscani and Józef Grassi, later working autodidactically, copying the famous pictures of the Gemäldegalerie, among them a copy of the Sixtinian Madonna. He was made a member of the Academy in 1817 and professor in 1824. The Cotta publishing house commissioned illustrations for Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Faust (26 plates), which made him financially independent. Goethe liked his work, and he illustrated works by other famous authors, most notably Friedrich Schiller's Lied von der Glocke (43 plates), a Shakespeare Gallery (80 plates), and Bürger's Ballads (15 plates). He also did oil paintings on classical subjects, and portraits. Many of his works were created in a house in the Lößnitz, with a view of the Elbe Valley.'.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. . . . . Oblong 4to, hardcover. Re-bound in green library buckram cloth, no dj. Good condition. Prev. owner's name. Ex-library copy, textblock edges stamped, perforated stamp at upper corner of title page and each of the plates, not affecting images themselves. LACKS Plate 22: 25 (of 26) black-and-white plates w/ accompanying text on facing pages, frontis. illustration & portrait of Goethe present. Occasional marginal finger-smudging, contents otherwise clean, no markings, binding firm.

THIS VOL ONLY, ex-library, folio, half green leather bound green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, aeg, marbled eps, frontispiece, (xx) + xl + unnumbered plates, VG (moderate rubbing & scuffing/surface loss to leatherwork on spine & board corners, sl loosening/wrinkling of buckram/material to boards, minimal library markings, light to moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, prev. owner's name in pencil to prelims, moderate foxing to plates).