Bartlett william henry illustrator (10 Ergebnisse)

1. Original-Stahlstich von Le Keux (in der Platte signiert) nach Bartlett auf rückseitig unbedrucktem Büttenblatt, extrem feine und detailreiche Ansicht, bildliche Darstellung ca. 17 x 12,5 cm, Blattgröße ca. 27 x 20,5 cm (jeweils Höhe x Breite), sauber und sehr gut erhalten, sehr schönes und seltenes Blatt 1100 gr.…

Zustand: Good. Hand-colored engraving. 4 x 6 1/2 in. (image); 5 5/8 x 9 in. (sheet). Very Good, light toning and foxing in the margins, tape along top edge of sheet verso, a short tear at bottom of sheet.

Zustand: Good. Hand-colored engraving. 5 3/4 x 4 in. (image); 9 x 5 1/2 in. (sheet). Very Good, light toning and foxing in the margins, tape along top edge of sheet verso.

Zustand: Good. Hand-colored engraving. 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. (image); 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (sheet). Very Good, light toning and foxing in the margins, tape along top edge of sheet verso.

Zustand: Good. Hand-colored engraving. 5 3/4 x 4 in. (image); 9 x 5 3/4 in. (sheet). Good, sheet toned and foxing in the margins, tape along top edge of sheet verso.

Zustand: Good. Engraving. 4 1/2 x 7 in. (image); 7 5/8 x 10 3/4 in. (sheet). Good, light toning and foxing in the image and margins.

Zustand: Good. Hand-colored engraving. 7 x 4 5/8 in. (image); 10 1/2 x 8 in. (sheet). Good, light toning and foxing in the margins, a tear at top of sheet, but not extending into image.

Full green cloth boards. Upper stamped in gilt and black, lower in blind. Spine stamped in gilt pictorial design. Beveled edges. Yellow pasted and free endpapers. All edges gilt. , Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806 ? 1867) was an American author and editor who worked with several other noted American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He was highly popular in his life, and became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day. Willis embedded his own personality into his writing and addressed his readers personally, specifically in his travel writings, so that his reputation was built in part because of his character. Most contemporaries recognized how prolific he was as a writer and how much time he put into all of his writings. James Parton said of him: ?Of all the literary men whom I have ever known, N. P. Willis was the one who took the most pains with his work. It was no very uncommon thing for him to toil over a sentence for an hour; and I knew him one evening to write and rewrite a sentence for two hours before he had got it to his mind.?William Henry Bartlett (1809 ? 1854) was a British artist, recognized as one of the foremost illustrations of topography of his generation. Bartlett?s primary concern was to render ?lively impressions of actual sights.? Nathaniel Parker Willis described Bartlett's talent thus: ?Bartlett could select his point of view so as to bring prominently into his sketch the castle or the cathedral, which history or antiquity had allowed.?, Size : Quarto (280 x 220 mm), Very good example of this famous and early pictorial work on Canada. Complete with 118 plates, including frontispieces: vol. 1 with 54 plates; vol. 2 with 64 plates. , (P) VOL I: Blank. Frontispiece. Pictorial title. Blank. Printed title. Blank. List of engravings. Blank (2). Plate. Pp. (1)-128. / VOL II: Frontispiece. Pictorial title. Blank. Printed title. Blank. List of engravings. Blank. Pp. (1)-116. Corners bumped, hinges weak, endpapers loose, interior lightly toned else crisp. Frontispiece with corner piece lacking at upper gutter, not affecting plate.…

Hardcover. Quarto, Two volumes. In Very Good condition. Bound in half black leather over marbled-paper boards. Spines black with gilt lettering and raised bands. Spines rubbed and scuffed, with wear and losses at spine ends. Boards show rubbing, scuffing and abrasion; edges and corners heavily worn and bumped. Pages age-toned with scattered to moderate foxing and occasional staining and soiling. CONTENTS: Vol. I, 140 pages--Vol. II, 106 pages. 1416362. Special Collections - Upstairs.…

All edges gilt. No binding. , Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806 ? 1867) was an American author and editor who worked with several other noted American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He was highly popular in his life, and became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day. Willis embedded his own personality into his writing and addressed his readers personally, specifically in his travel writings, so that his reputation was built in part because of his character. Most contemporaries recognized how prolific he was as a writer and how much time he put into all of his writings. James Parton said of him: ?Of all the literary men whom I have ever known, N. P. Willis was the one who took the most pains with his work. It was no very uncommon thing for him to toil over a sentence for an hour; and I knew him one evening to write and rewrite a sentence for two hours before he had got it to his mind.?William Henry Bartlett (1809 ? 1854) was a British artist, recognized as one of the foremost illustrations of topography of his generation. Bartlett?s primary concern was to render ?lively impressions of actual sights.? Nathaniel Parker Willis described Bartlett's talent thus: ?Bartlett could select his point of view so as to bring prominently into his sketch the castle or the cathedral, which history or antiquity had allowed.?, Size : 4to. (273x210 mm), Very good examples of these substantial works on colonialism and European settlement in Canada, with detailed and lyrical descriptions, as well as a profusion of plates illustrating many views and scenes accompanying the text. Interior and plates are clean and crisp. Including early views of Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Fredericton, Kingston, Halifax, and other cities, as well as many scenes of lakes, rivers, forests, and other natural sights. Vol. 1 complete with 54 plates. Without frontispiece of Bartlett, as per this copy?s index. Vol. 2 complete with 64 plates, including frontispiece. These two volumes have the two Toronto views., Volume : 2 volumes.…