Orme Edward Howitt Samuel (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. oblong folio. inscribed presentation copy from the publisher Charles TraylentoBob Williams, fine copy in its original box, will require extra postage.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. J. H. Clark & Samuel Howitt & M Dubourg. (illustrator). 1st Edition. q hand coloured aquatint engravings of "Arabs Hawking Antelopes". with a page of printed letterpress description. The plate is clear and clean, a little light thumb mark on the page of letterpress and in the white of the engraved plates, images not affected. Measure. 20 x 23 cm to plate line. Neither framed or mounted.

Faksimile. 2° quer (45 x 55 cm); Illustriertes Titelblatt, illustr. Liste des Inhalts und 20 farbig illustrierte, lose Tafeln in OPp.-Mappe (komplett). Gedruckt in 8-Farben-Offset-Lithographie von W.S. Cowell. Nummeriert mit 181/600 Exx. - Mappe etwas angeschmutzt und mit einigen Lagerspuren; alle Tafeln sehr sauber.

Condition: Good. Elephant oblong folio. 17.75 x 22.25 inches. Full red crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf, titled and ruled in gilt on the upper cover, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles, cloth hinges and Cockerel marbled endpapers together with the matching slipcase. Fine condition.The best plate from the original edition "Partridge Shooting" is enclosed in a built-in folder as the rear. Abbey, Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, no. 14. Plate is 14 (14). Original plate watermarked "J Whatman 1805."Title page and contents page decorated and coloured, 20 coloured plates reproduced from the original hand-coloured aquatint plates, no text, plates captioned in English and French,copy. This exact fascimile reprint of the first and only edition of one of the rarest of all sporting books, printed in eight colours by offset lithography by W S Cowell, Butter Market, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, published by Charles W Traylen, Antiquarian Bookseller, 87 North Street, Guildford, England. This copy is number 13 of the edition deluxe, limited to twenty copies, each of which contains one of the original plates. British style foxing to the endpapers.

Aquatint engraving, coloured by hand, by James Godby and Henri Merke (watermark: 'J. Whatman 1805'). A fine image from 'Orme's Collection of British Field Sports': "the finest and most important sporting book of the last two centuries" (Schwerdt) Samuel Howitt, "genius, artist, sportsman", concentrated his considerable artistic talents on picturing scenes of horse-racing and hunting in all its aspects. Born in Nottinghamshire, England, Howitt was largely self-taught ,"although he must have been helped by his companions George Morland, Rowlandson and John Raphael Smith. Howitt's watercolours of hunting, shooting and racing have delightful spontaneity. An enthusiastic sportsman himself, he had sufficient family money to paint at first only for his own and his friends pleasure. However, this fortune was quickly dissipated and Howitt moved to London. [He made a living], partly by etching at which he was extremely skilled. As an artist he was prolific, more than 150 of his designs were published in The Sporting Magazine. He illustrated Beckford's Thoughts on Hunting, and other books, including Orme's Collection of British Field Sports. The light touch of his pen, the delicacy of his brushwork and his experience of field sports ensured all that he drew was animated and accurate." (Charles Lane British Racing Prints pp.132-133). Cf. Abbey Scenery 14; Lane British Sporting Prints p.133; Mellon British Sporting and Animal Drawings p.106; Siltzer p.164; cf. Schwerdt II, p.53; Siltzer p.164; cf.Tooley 273.

Aquatint engraving, coloured by hand, by Thomas Vivares and Henri Merke. A fine image from 'Orme's Collection of British Field Sports': "the finest and most important sporting book of the last two centuries" (Schwerdt) Samuel Howitt, "genius, artist, sportsman", concentrated his considerable artistic talents on picturing scenes of horse-racing and hunting in all its aspects. Born in Nottinghamshire, England, Howitt was largely self-taught ,"although he must have been helped by his companions George Morland, Rowlandson and John Raphael Smith. Howitt's watercolours of hunting, shooting and racing have delightful spontaneity. An enthusiastic sportsman himself, he had sufficient family money to paint at first only for his own and his friends' pleasure. However, this fortune was quickly dissipated and Howitt moved to London. [He made a living], partly by etching at which he was extremely skilled. As an artist he was prolific. more than 150 of his designs were published in The Sporting Magazine. He illustrated Beckford's Thoughts on Hunting, and other books, including Orme's Collection of British Field Sports. The light touch of his pen, the delicacy of his brushwork and his experience of field sports ensured all that he drew was animated and accurate." (Charles Lane British Racing Prints pp.132-133). Cf. Abbey Scenery 14; Lane British Sporting Prints p.133; Mellon British Sporting and Animal Drawings p.106; Siltzer p.164; cf. Schwerdt II, p.53; Siltzer p.164; cf.Tooley 273.

Platte: 15,5 x 19,2 cm; Blatt: 21 x 27,5 cm Oberer weiße Rand mit kleinen Ausrissen, sonst gutes Blatt Sprache: Deutsch 1001 gr.

Platte: 15,5 x 20 cm; Blatt: 29 x 28,8 cm Blatt etwas gebräunt und stockfleckig, sonst gut Sprache: Deutsch 1001 gr.