Thomson Engraver (49 results)

Size: 8vo. 275 x 187mm. Single sheet, with stab holes for stitching. Some foxing. Steel engraving by J. Thomson after an unidentified artist. Handel is depicted half-length facing to the right but with head towards the viewer, in braided coat with wig. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, founded in 1826, was a Whiggish London organisation that published inexpensive texts intended to adapt scientific and similarly high-minded material for the rapidly expanding reading public.…

Condition: Good. Sir Martin Archer Shee (1769-1850), portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy. Line engraving measuring 6 x 5 inches. Mold and stains. Good.

Condition: Good. Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), portrait painter, collector and President of the Royal Academy. Line engraving measuring 9 x 6 inches. Mold and stains, corner piece missing top right, rubbed spot with loss of text. Fair.

Condition: Good. Line engraving measuring 10 x 7 inches. Mold and stains, corner piece missing lower right. Gilbert (1767 -1839) was an English Economist & Politician known for his writings and studies in the Antiquarian world.

Condition: Good. Stipple and line engraving. 33 x 23 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Light foxing along sheet edges.

Condition: Good. Stipple and line engraving on chine colle. 34 x 25.5 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Light specks of foxing in the margins.

Condition: Good. Steel engraving. 26.5 x 17.5 cm. (sheet). Very Good. With printed signature. Some toning along sheet edges.

Condition: Good. Original engraving on wove paper. Very Good. 9.25 x 5.75 inches sheet size. Some signs of handling. Smudge on middle right, and minor foxing on top edge. Trimmed at left edge of image.

Condition: Good. Original engraving on wove paper. Very Good. 9.75 x 6 inches sheet size. Some creasing on top and bottom edges. Water staining on bottom edge, not affecting image. Toning throughout. Portrait of Lady Katherine Wemyss-Charteris-Douglas, Lady Grey of Groby (1801-1844), from the miniature by Sir William Charles Ross, RA (London 1794 - London 1860).…

Condition: Good. Original engraving on wove paper. Very Good. 9.25 x 5.75 inches sheet size. Some creasing on top and bottom edges. Light foxing throughout.

First Edition. Poor copy bound in contemporary boards. Triptych frontis complete. Wear and tear as with age. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Includes previous owner's signature. Physical description; 104 p., [1] folded leaf of plate ; 23 cm. Subjects; Meade, John Colonel. Castlereagh, Robert Stewart Viscount (1769-1822). Great Britain. Parliament Elections. Down (Northern Ireland : County) Politics and government. Genres; Biography. Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Poor copy bound in contemporary boards. Triptych frontis complete. Wear and tear as with age. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Includes previous owner's signature. Physical description; 104 p., [1] folded leaf of plate ; 23 cm. Subjects; Meade, John Colonel. Castlereagh, Robert Stewart Viscount (1769-1822). Great Britain. Parliament Elections. Down (Northern Ireland : County) Politics and government. Genres; Biography. Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1803 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. 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. Pages: 60 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: 60 Language: English.…

Condition: Good. Stipple engraving. 28.5 x 18 cm (sheet). Facsimile signature. Very Good, toning along sheet edges.

Condition: Good. Original engraving on rag paper. Very Good. Minor spot on top left edge, not affecting image. 12 x 9 inches sheet size, accompanied by 14 pages of letterpress description. From the collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon, at the Grove.

Condition: Good. Original engraving on rag paper. Very Good. Minor spot of foxing, not affecting image. 12 x 9 inches sheet size, accompanied by 6 pages of letterpress description. From the collection of The Right Honourable the Earl of Egremont, at Petworth.

Condition: Good. Original engraving on rag paper. Very Good. Minor spots of foxing, not affecting image. 12 x 9 inches sheet size, accompanied by 5 pages of letterpress description. From the collection of The Right Honourable the Earl of Morton, at Dalmahoy.

Condition: Good. Original engraving on rag paper. Very Good. Minor spot of foxing, not affecting image. 12 x 9 inches sheet size, accompanied by 9 pages of letterpress description. From the original of Lely, in the collection of the Right Honourable Lord Clifford.

Condition: Good. Original engraving on rag paper. Very Good+. 12 x 9 inches sheet size, accompanied by 5 pages of letterpress description. From the collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Guildford, at Wroxton Abbey.

Condition: Good. Original engraving on rag paper. Very Good+. Very minor signs of foxing in left margin, not affecting image. 12 x 9 inches sheet size, accompanied by 8 pages of letterpress description. From the collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Egemont, at Petworth.

Condition: Good. An original steel engraved portrait of Dr. Edmund Cartwright, the clergyman and inventor of the power loom, published by William Mackenzie. The sitter is shown half length, turned slightly to the left and looking out at the viewer, his gray hair falling loosely to his collar. He wears a dark coat and waistcoat with a white cravat and sits in a carved and upholstered armchair against a plain dark ground. The plate is lettered beneath the image "Engraved by J. Thomson, from a Picture in the possession of Miss Cartwright", with the name "Dr. Cartwright." in outline capitals below and the imprint "William Mackenzie, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London & New York." at the foot of the sheet. James Thomson was a London engraver who specialized in portraits for books and periodicals. Edmund Cartwright (1743 to 1823) was a Leicestershire clergyman and poet who turned to mechanics in middle age. In 1785 he patented the first power loom, the machine that would in time transform the weaving of cloth, and he went on to patent a wool combing machine and other inventions. Parliament granted him 10,000 pounds in 1809 in recognition of the value of the loom to the nation. William Mackenzie of Glasgow was one of the most active Victorian subscription publishers, issuing illustrated histories, dictionaries and biographical works in parts, each illustrated with steel engraved portraits such as this. The New York line in the imprint places the printing in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. The engraving is finely worked, with close cross hatching in the coat and background and delicate stipple in the face. This portrait suits a collection of the Industrial Revolution, the textile trade or the history of invention, and a narrow dark molding with a wide mat shows it to advantage. Condition: Good condition for its age. A few small spots to the margins; small nick to the upper edge and a faint crease at the lower left corner, all clear of the image. Please review the images for further condition details. This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed. Size: H 28 cm x W 18 cm x D 0.02 cm Stock number: BG-14343-14.…

A pair of hand coloured engraved maps: 50 x 59 cms; 54.3 x 68.5 cms (sheet); central fold, some browning to the inset maps and faint age-toning to the sheets, small sealed hole to the key of one map, a few neat repairs to margins but an attractive pair of maps in very good condition. Highly detailed sheet maps that form a complete view of the Indian subcontinent during a period of significant British East India Company expansion. Published in Edinburgh by John Thomson as part of his New General Atlas (c. 1814?1821), the first of the maps covers Northern India from Persia and the Indus Valley in the west to Assam and Bhutan in the east, extending north into Tibet, with two inset maps which feature a remarkably detailed map of the Kingdom of Nepal, (which was rarely visited by Westerners at that time), and a second inset of Cabul (Kabul) in the upper left. The Southern map covers the peninsula from Bombay in the north down to the northern part of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). A beautiful pair of maps with attractive hand-colouring defining eight spheres of influence identified in the key in the lower left of the Southern map, for example red for British-controlled areas, orange for the Nabob of Oude, green for the Berar Rajah.…

Full Morocco. Third Edition. Unusual split arrangement of fore-edge paintings, with each occupying half of the fore-edge's vertical length. One of the paintings, occupying the first half of the book, reveals itself when you fan those leaves to the left -- towards the front board; the other, taking up the latter leaves, emerges when fanning to the right, or the rear board. But one thing special about this volume's fore-edge paintings is that one needn't fan the pages oneself really, because when one opens the volume in its center, the two fore-edge paintings come out clearly at the same time! And while we don't recommend that one rest an antiquarian book fully open, in the case of this binding we believe it is safe. Plus the paintings in fact are sufficiently apparent without the book laying completely flat. 12mo. 16.5 by 11 cm. lxxii, 681 pp. With seven steel engraved plates, including frontis and half-title, and a few illustrations placed in the text. The front fore-edge painting is of a coach that gets mired in the snow, as a sole horseman gallops by in the background. The rear fore-edge painting is of omnibuses hitched together, with no horse(s) attached, as would be needed to pull the vehicular ancestor of trolleys. Both paintings are populated with people, and setting them apart from almost all fore-edge paintings is that they are genre scenes, with something going on, fitting into and/or sparking a narrative. They also easily relate to Thomson's most famous poem, "The Seasons", and thus are distinguishable from the typical fore-edge painting in which the painter chooses a volume more or less randomly to use as his canvas. Besides the fore-edge paintings, the volume has a lovely decorative binding to recommend it with the boards' gilt decoration elaborate gilt design evoking Pompeian ornament, and similar to countless palatial wall and door panels created in the neo-Classical vein of the late 18th Century. The spine has a typical five raised band format, but given the dimensions of the book, the narrower compartments means the gilt decoration within have an unusual horizontality to them. The binding does show wear, with rubbing along the joints, on the raised bands, along the edges. It remains very handsome nonetheless, and the binding is also tight. Internally, there is light age toning to the leaves. Other than some foxing of the plates, which are of a different, thicker paper stock than the rest, with the frontis plate suffering the deepest amount of foxing, the leaves are generally clean. There is normal offsetting of the engravings. George Grantbach, engraver. Engravings of mostly of works by John Gilbert, but frontis portrait was painted by Joseph Paton (illustrator).…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1835 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: 292 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: 292 Volume 10 Lodge, Edmund, 1756-1839,Dean, T.A., engraver,Wright, Thomas, engraver,Picart, Charles, ca.1780-ca.1837, engraver,Scriven, Edward, 1775-1841, engraver,Freeman, Samuel, 1773-1857, engraver,Robinson, H., engraver,Cooper, Robert, fl. 1800-1836, engraver,Holl, William, 1771-1838, engraver,Thomson, James, 1789-1850, engraver,Fry, William Thomas, 1789-1845, engraver,Cochran, John, engraver,Rydall, Henry Thomas, 1811-1867, engraver,Purple Heather, engraver,Blood, T., fl. 1809-1823, engraver,Jenkins, J., engraver,Kellaway, G., engraver,Parker, J., engraver,Agar, John Samuel, approximately 1770-approximately 1835, engraver,Cook, Henry R., fl. 1800-1845, engraver,Parker, G., engraver,Pofselwhite, J., engraver,Mote, William Henry, fl. 1830-1864, engraver,Cochran, J., engraver,Lightfoot, Peter, 1805-1885, engraver,Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543, ill,Titian, approximately 1488-1576, ill,Gerard, Mark, ill,Flick, Auguste Emile, ill,Moore, Antonio, Sir, ill,Ketel, Cornelis, 1548-1616, ill,Zuccheri, Federico, 1540-1609, ill,Hilliard, Nicholas, 1547?-1619, ill,Pantoja de la Cruz, Juan, 1551-1608, ill,Jansen, ill,Mytens, Daniel, 1590-1648, ill,Van Somer, ill,Miereveld, Michiel Jansz van, ill,Van Dyke, Anthony, Sir, 1599-1641, ill,Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640, ill,Walker, ill,Honthorst, Gerrit van, 1590-1656, ill,Lely, Peter, 1618-1680, ill,Oliver, P., ill,Knapton, ill,Van Loo, ill,Jarvis, Charles, 1675?-1739, ill,Ramsay, ill,Hoare, Richard Colt, Sir, 1758-1838, ill,Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, ill,Cotes, Francis,1726-1770, ill,Dance, George, 1741-1825, ill,Rosalba, 1675-1757, ill,Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788, ill,Hoppner, John, 1758-1810, ill,Copley, John Singleton, ca. 1738-1815, ill,Opie, John, 1761-1807, ill,Rivers, J. A. (John Abbot), ill,Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780-1860, ill,Knight, ill.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1835 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: 290 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: 290 Volume 6.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1835 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: 292 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: 292 Volume 3.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1835 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. 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. Pages: 332 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: 332 Volume 7 Language: English.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1876 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. 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. Pages: 420 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: 420 Volume 2 Language: English.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1812 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. 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. Pages: 434 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: 434 Volume 2 Language: English,German.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1812 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. 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. Pages: 454 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: 454 Volume 1 Language: English,German.…