Mulready William Illustrator (5 results)

Facsimile ed. Each book: Paperback small trade, very good plus condition, frontispiece, black & white plates, coloured engravings, card envelope. Both in same slipcase. 16 + 14 pp. The author of The Butterfly's Ball wrote this story for his young son Robert. John Harris published the poem anonymously in London in January 1807, with an engraved text and copperplate illustrations by the young William Mulready, the son of poor Irish immigrants. The Peacock at Home, a sequel, written by an anonymous lady, later identified as Catherine Ann (Turner) Dorset, was published in September 1807, by the Harris firm. This booklet was illustrated with copperplates engraved after William Mulready. The card envelopes that wrap around each individual booklet add a special touch. (One of a set of 35 handsome facsimiles in 28 slipcases.).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. William Mulready (1786-1863) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Small 8vo. 7 x 4 ½ inches. xi, [1], 273pp. In the original full tree-calf, gilt lettered red Morocco label on spine, gilt ruled. Rubbed at edges, corners bumped, foot of spine frayed. Ownership inscription of Miss Elizabeth Salisbury, Boston, February 12, 1817, on fep, multiplication in ink on pastedown. D.W. Salisbury on front flyleaf, Miss Elizabeth S. Salisbury to verso. Paper uniformly toned with scattered spots of foxing. p. 227 misnumbered 722. p. 231 misnumbered 132 (13 is upside down), p. 264 misnumbered 462. First two leaves of text (p. 1-4) torn at foremargins, p.1-2 with partial loss of engraving and text, p. 3-4 with a small hole affecting image and a few words to verso. Lower inner corner of p. 35-36 (gutter) with loss affecting a few final letters, lower blank corner of p. 41-42 chipped. Lower blank verso of p. 82 with old red wax and paper repair (not affecting text on p. 81), several short, closed tears to blank margins. P. 271-272 was bound in a bit crooked with the text at the foredge (no loss). Few pencil marks. Still a charming example of the scarce first American edition with wonderful woodcuts. Collated, complete. The ownership inscriptions are those of 10-year-old Elizabeth Sewall Salisbury Chauncey (1807-1850), and later, her younger brother, Daniel Waldo Salisbury (1817-1890). The Salisbury family, beginning with Nicholas Salisbury (1694-1748), were prominent merchants from Boston. Elizabeth married Nathaniel Chauncey (1789-1865), a descendant of Charles Chauncey (c.1592-1671), the second president of Harvard. Published under the pseudonym, Edward Baldwin, this collection of fables was the work of William Godwin, husband of Mary Wollstonecraft who died 11 days after giving birth to their daughter, Mary Shelley. First published in London in 1805 by Thomas Hodgkins, a second edition appeared in 1807. The first American was published in 1811 (offered here). According to the New York Public Library, Godwin wrote this book for his children, which was the first book for his Juvenile Library. The illustrations were created by the then 19-year-old William Mulready. [Fables-Children's Literature].

First edition; 16mo (12.5 x 10.5 cm); 6 hand-coloured engraved plates including frontispiece, gift inscription in pen to front free endpaper; original pictorial wrappers, rebacked in green card, housed in a modern grey cloth clamshell case, contrasting red morocco title-piece to spine, a very good example. The first edition of this scarce illustrated children's tale in the original wrappers, with contemporary hand-coloured plates after designs by William Mulready (1786-1863). The book was published following the tremendous success of Catherine Ann Dorset's (d.1816?) The Peacock at Home, which sold 40,000 copies within a year, and reached a twenty-eighth edition by 1819. The present work is much less well-known, with WorldCat recording only 16 copies in institutional collections worldwide. With an early female gift inscription 'For Sarah King from her sister Honora'(?). Moon 605; Gumuchian 2251.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1807 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 32 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 32.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1807 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 34 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 34.