Catnach james (4 Ergebnisse)

Limited edition No. 114 of 250 copies printed; 12mo.; leather backed boards with gilt lettering on spine, hardcover; top page edges are gilt; black and white illustrations; boards are heavily edgeworn and chipped with front hinge beginning to crack else very good.

Both items in good condition on lightly-aged paper. Both 1 p, on 12mo landscape slips. John Catnach's bill and receipt: 'The Honb. Coast Comit. | April 12 1795. | To J. Catnach | Printing 200 Signal for the Coast 7s . 0 | 5 qrs. Best Wove foolscap for Do. 1s.2d Per qr 5 . 10 | £0 . 12 . 10 | Recd the above from Thos. Adams Esqr. | [signed] Jno. Catnach | June 29th. 1796.' Docketed on reverse with calculation. Mary Catnach's bill and receipt: 'The Honble Coast Committee | 1795 To J Catnach Dr. | March 10th. 3 Quarto Copy Books at 1/6 - 0 . 4 . 6 | Same time recd. Paymt of Jas. Russell [signed] Mary Catnach'. Docketed on reverse. According to his son's entry in the Oxford DNB, John Catnach 'was ahead of his time in publishing cheap attractively illustrated books, including children's books, but was a poor businessman. Working in Newcastle, he was imprisoned for debt, and in an attempt to mend his fortunes by moving to London with his family in 1808 he only sank deeper into poverty. In 1813 he died, broken in spirit, of an infected leg.' He was associated with Thomas Bewick, who was one of the creditors named at his first bankruptcy, and printed 'The Beauties of Natural History, selected from Buffon's History of Quadrupeds', 'Poems by Percival Stockdale' and 'Poetical Works of Robert Burns' all with Bewick woodcuts. BBTI has him trading in Berwick , 1790-1791; Alnwick, 1790-1808; Newcastle, 1808-1812; and London, 1812-1813. The Honourable Coast Committee of Northumberland was an organisation, founded on subscriptions, for the foundation and maintenance of a series of beacons along the Northumberland coast, as a defence against French invasion. See IMage.…

Zustand: Good. Folio. 38 x 25.5cm. .OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:496418489:Contents:Carol I. Christmas day;Carol II. St. Stephen's day;Carol III. St. John's Day;Carol IV. Holy innocents, anciently called Childermas day;A very old carol, called "The joys."[I saw three ships.].Provenance : From the collection of Frederic Gale Ruffner, Jr., the founder of Gale Research, Detroit.…

Broadside, approx. 20" x 15¼" (65 x 53 cm.), incorporating 26 woodcuts depicting the life of Christ (from swaddling clothes to the Resurrection), under decorative wood type, plus 6 hymns; a few chips from the margins (not affecting any illustration or letterpress), minor soiling, mostly confined to the margins; a good example. No mention of this in Hindley, History of the Catnach Press (1887). SMU only in OCLC.…