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No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original Engraving, Colored In Shades Of Red-Brown. Trimmed To Margins All Around. One Of A Large Collection Of Original Antique Engravings Formed By A Southern California Artist In The Early To Middle Twentieth Century. Each Plate Has Small Glue Marks On Reverse Where They Were Tipped In To An Album. Arthur Pond (C.1705-1758) Was An English Painter And Engraver. He Was Educated In London, And Stayed For A Time In Rome Studying Art, In Company With The Sculptor Roubiliac. He Became A Successful Portrait-Painter. He Was Elected A Fellow Of The Royal Society In 1752, And Died In Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 9 September 1758. His Numerous Original Portraits Include Alexander Pope, William, Duke Of Cumberland, And Peg Woffington. Pond Was Also A Prolific Etcher, And Used Various Mixed Processes Of Engraving By Means Of Which He Imitated Or Reproduced The Works Of Masters Such As Rembrandt, Raphael, Salvator Rosa, Parmigianino, Caravaggio, And The Poussins. In 1734-5 He Published A Series Of His Plates Under The Title Imitations Of The Italian Masters. He Also Collaborated With George Knapton In The Publication Of The Heads Of Illustrious Persons, After Jacobus Houbraken And George Vertue, With Their Lives By Thomas Birch (London, 1743-52); And Engraved Sixty-Eight Plates For A Collection Of Ninety-Five Reproductions From Drawings By Famous Masters, In Which Knapton Was Again His Colleague. Another Of His Productions Was A Series Of Twenty-Five Caricatures After Pier Leone Ghezzi, Republished In 1823 And 1832 As Eccentric Characters.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original Engraving, Colored In Shades Of Gray. Trimmed To Margins All Around. One Of A Large Collection Of Original Antique Engravings Formed By A Southern California Artist In The Early To Middle Twentieth Century. Each Plate Has Small Glue Marks On Reverse Where They Were Tipped In To An Album. Arthur Pond (C.1705-1758) Was An English Painter And Engraver. He Was Educated In London, And Stayed For A Time In Rome Studying Art, In Company With The Sculptor Roubiliac. He Became A Successful Portrait-Painter. He Was Elected A Fellow Of The Royal Society In 1752, And Died In Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 9 September 1758. His Numerous Original Portraits Include Alexander Pope, William, Duke Of Cumberland, And Peg Woffington. Pond Was Also A Prolific Etcher, And Used Various Mixed Processes Of Engraving By Means Of Which He Imitated Or Reproduced The Works Of Masters Such As Rembrandt, Raphael, Salvator Rosa, Parmigianino, Caravaggio, And The Poussins. In 1734-5 He Published A Series Of His Plates Under The Title Imitations Of The Italian Masters. He Also Collaborated With George Knapton In The Publication Of The Heads Of Illustrious Persons, After Jacobus Houbraken And George Vertue, With Their Lives By Thomas Birch (London, 1743-52); And Engraved Sixty-Eight Plates For A Collection Of Ninety-Five Reproductions From Drawings By Famous Masters, In Which Knapton Was Again His Colleague. Another Of His Productions Was A Series Of Twenty-Five Caricatures After Pier Leone Ghezzi, Republished In 1823 And 1832 As Eccentric Characters.

Original wraps. Zustand: Fine. Signed limited edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, featuring twelve illustrations with woodcuts and an original etching by Salvador Dalí. (illustrator). Limited Edition. Folio, 150pp, [6]. Full set measures 22" x 16" x 3.5". Portfolio of loose leaves, held in brown cloth wraps. "Dalí" stamped in gilt on front cover. Leaves are gathered in signatures of 6, with each centerfold featuring an illustration. All in fine condition. Complete with twelve vibrant full-page color illustrations and one frontispiece etching. One of 2,500 portfolios, printed on Mandeure paper. This set is numbered 1,860. Each portfolio features an original colored etching, signed by the artist, Salvador Dalí. Housed in the matching cloth clamshell, title in gilt on orange morocco spine, brown silk interior. Small orange stain to bottom right corner. Held shut with leather straps along fore-edge, lacking one latch. Includes the publisher's original shipping box, with the matching limitation number. A truly exceptional piece combining classic literature with modern art. Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) illustrated a number of limited edition works throughout his artistic career. In addition to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Dalí was commissioned to illustrate Macbeth (1946), Don Quixote De La Mancha (1946), The Divine Comedy (1960), Arabian Nights (1964), and The Bible (1967). Signed.

(Hamburg, Verlag St. Gertrude, 1988). 4to. Orig. wrappers. (34) pp. Illustrated in colour. "Vorzugsausgabe - Originalradierung". With the orig. signed etching in front. Signed "JH 88" at foot of etching.