Bulmer printer (4 Ergebnisse)

Engraving, Printer associated with Thomas Bewick and Shakspeare Press.

Zustand: Good. [x], [22] leaves of explanatory text in English on rectos and French on versos. With 22 hand-coulored stipple engravings. 34.8x25.5 cm (13¾x10"), contemporary green morocco,stamped in blind and gilt, spine stamped in gilt, all edges gilt; inner panels and gilt dentelles, feather-patterned endpapers; binding restored. .Series of twenty-two finely coloured engravings graphically depicting various methods of torture and punishment employed by the Chinese. First published in 1800 this this copy with frontispiece watermarked J. Whatman, 1834. Frontispiece slightly loose. Two plates with short tears without loss. References; Abbey Travel 532; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 1463517344.William Bulmer (1757-1830) was a pioneering English printer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He established the Shakespeare Printing Office at 3 Russell Court off Cleveland Row in London's St. James's district in 1790. Partnering with typefounder William Martin, Bulmer helped lead the "fine printing" movement in England.List of the Punishments: 1. A culprit before a magistrate;2. A culprit conveyed to prison;3. A culprit conducted to trial;4. An offender undergoing the bastinade;5. Twisting a man's ears;6. Punishment of the swing;7. Punishing a boatman;8. Punishing an interpreter;9. The rack;10. Torturing the fingers;11. Burning a man's eyes with lime;12. A malefactor chained to an iron bar;13. Punishment of the wooden collar;14. A man fastened to a block of wood;15. A malefactor in a cage;16. Punishment of a wooden tube;17. Hamstringing a malefactor;18. Close confinement;19. Conducting an offender into banishment20. A malefactor conducted to execution;21. The capital punishment of the cord.22. The manner of beheading. …

Zustand: Good. Small folio. 26 x 35cm. Contemporary green straight grain morocco decorated in gilt, with raised bands to spine with gilt lettering and tooling; rebacked.Offsetting from plates to text pages.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:2015495: .[6], xxviii, [100] pages 50 color plates; Abbey, Ttravel, no. 71. …

Zustand: Good. Folios. 31.3 x 41.3 cm. 9 volumes. Original calf with gilt dentelles along the edges of the covers; gilt spine and edges; the heavy covers reattached with matching binding material by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov. . Scattered foxing, mainly light.few pages with tears. Total weight about 140 pounds. Will be shipped in 3 heavy boxes.OCLC 5503043: Contents: v. 1. Prefaces of Pope and Johnson to the Dramatic works of Shakspeare. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure.v. 2. Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost ; Midsummer-night's dream.v. 3. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well.v. 4. Twelfth-night ; Winter's tale ; Macbeth ; King John.v. 5. King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; King Henry V.v. 6. King Henry VI ; King Richard III.v. 7. King Henry VIII ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra.v. 8. Timon of Athens ; Titus Adronicus ; Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline.v. 9. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello.Notes:Originally issued in 18 parts in 1791 and 1802 [i.e. 1803?]The edition is based upon the 1790 Malone and 1793 Steevens editionsVolume title pages, with "volume" designation, are all dated 1802With a dedication leaf "To the King's most excellent majesty" dated June 4th, 1803, signed John Boydell, Josiah Boydell, and George Nicol; advertisement signed "G.N." in v. 1Letterpress printed.Plays are paginated separately, have no signatures, and are bound in no designated order.Each play has a colophon reading: From the Shakspeare Press, by W. Bulmer & CoNo table of contents or list of plates is given, but the plates correspond with the list given in "Boydell's Graphic illustrations of the dramatic works of Shakspeare," a separate issue of the plates, except that the latter lacks a variation of the first plate in Richard III (Gloster and the princes) while it has in addition (as frontispiece) "Shakspeare nursed by Tragedy and Comedy, " a portrait of John Boydell, a variation of Juliet's supposed death, and a second plate in Titus Adronicus (Lavinia nursing her young nephew, by T. Kirk)."Boydell's Graphic illustrations &c." must not be confused with their "Collection of prints, from pictures painted for the purpose of illustrating the dramatic works of Shakspeare," London, 1803, two large folios containing larger plates (100, including the portraits of the King and Queen prefixed, and the two title-vignettes) most of which are entirely different from these smaller platesPlates, dated 1791-1803, are mainly by R. Smirke, W. Hamilton, R. Westall, F. Wheatley, James Northcote, with a few each by Reynolds, Opie, Stothard, and others. Among the engravers who executed the greatest number of plates are James Parker, Anker Smith, and James Heath.…