lavater john casper (7 Ergebnisse)

Full sheep. Zustand: Very Good with no dust jacket. Second Edition. 16mo; VIOII, 1OO pages; Front cover detached. Text lightly browned but fully legible. Text intact. An example is, "You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea. " Easy come, easy go. The early bird gets the worm. Etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 173 Plates and Hundreds of Engravings By William Blake and Others (illustrator). 1st Edition. Title, (8), Iv, (20),281 Pp.; Title, Pp. V-Xii, 238 Pp., Final Plate; Half Title, (4), Pp. 239-444; Title, Pp. V-Xii, 252 Pp.; Half Title ,(Iv), Pp. 253-437, (Viii, Index). Three Volumes Bound In Five, Complete. Original 35.7 Cm Height. Full Calf, Five Double Bands, Gilt Rules And Designs On Spines, Covers, And Gilt Designs On Turns, Watered Endpapers In Blue And Red. Silk Bookmarks Bound In. All Edges Gilt. First Printings Of Each Volume (Title Pages Dated 1789, 1792, 1798, But The First Volume, 1789, Bound With The 1798 Translator's Preface). All 173 Plates And Other Illustrations Present, Including William Blake Plate And Three Illustrations By Him, And With All Initial And Final Blanks [No Half-Titles In Vol I, Vol Ii Pt I, Or Vol Iii Pt I]. Binding Lightly Worn At Edges, Wear And Fraying At Corners, Gilt Bright, Covers Recently Refurbished, Endpapers Clean, No Names Or Stamps Or Marks, Some Foxing To Plate Margins. Additional Postage Required, International Postage At Insured Rates .

Brown hardback leather cover. Zustand: Fair. Reprint. Worn condition. Hinges cracked and loosening. Front board almost detached. Wear to spine. Content in overall good condition. 220mm x 130mm (9" x 5"). 186pp + plates. 74 b/w plates.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Henry Fuseli - William Blake - Patrick Maguire (illustrator). 3rd Edition. Printed by W. Sleater, Dame-Street, and P. Byrne, Grafton Street. Pages: vi, 222. Frontispiece. 165x100mm. Contemporary full tree calf, spine ruled gilt with gilt lettered red title label. This is one of two printings of this work which were issued in Dublin in 1790. Both are described as the 'Third Edition' and that 'Printed by and for Chamberlaine and Rice, No. 5 College-Green' does not appear to have had a frontispiece. The stipple engraved frontispiece in this copy is signed 'P. Maguire, Sculpt.' and is an almost exact copy of the William Blake engraved frontispiece of the London 1789 edition, thus representing what is probably an unauthorized copy of Blake's engraving, which itself was from a design by Fuseli. Patrick Maguire was active as an engraver in Dublin in the years 1783 to 1820. Lower front corner of binding rubbed with lower front hinge tender but holding well. Aphorism no. 199 has been highlighted in contemporary pen, with shadows of removed pencil marks in the page margins. Overall a very attractive copy of this scarce Dublin printing with a particularly clean example of the important frontispiece which is missing from many copies.

hardcover. Zustand: good. HOLLOWAY, Thomas (illustrator). Translated from the French by Henry Hunter, D.D. 3 volumes originally bound in 5 (volume 1, volume II parts I and II, and volume III parts I and II) LACKS 5th volume (aka volume III part II, or pages 253-435). Some irregularities in pagination, but only lacking one illustration in the present volumes: "A pensive character leaning his head on his hand" from page 10 volume II part I. Profusely illustrated in black and white with copper engravings, accurately copied; and some duplicates added from originals executed by, or under the inspection of Thomas Holloway. 3 illustrated title pages, 129 full page plates plus hundreds of in text vignettes depicting a wide range of facial features and their supposed significance (some foxing, confined mostly to margins of plates). Folios bound in ornately blind stamped calf (worn and dry, covers of volumes II, III, and IV detached), marbled endpapers, marbled page edges, raised spine bands. London: John Stockdale, 1810. A good copy. Johann Caspar Lavater (1741 - 1801) was a Swiss poet, philosopher, physiognomist, theologian and friend of artist Henri Fuseli. An incomplete, but impressively illustrated set. Please note, the weight of these books will require additional postage if shipped internationally.

Second edition illustrated by four hundred and eighteen engravings, 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. vi, [2], cxlix, [1], 242; [4], 324; [6], 399, [1], [10] index; copper-engraved frontispiece portrait after Corbould, 424 engraved plates, leaf B1 in volume 1 with marginal restoration, occasional neat pencil annotations throughout; contemporary polished half tan calf over marbled boards, maroon and black morocco labels on gilt-paneled spine, sprinkled edges; some rubbing and wear but in all a very good copy. Lowndes II, p. 1321.

London: J. Johnson, 1789. Small 8vo, viii, 224 pages. With a frontispiece engraved by Blake after Fuseli. Old half calf neatly rebacked, a very good copy. Bookplate of PAW. ? Second edition (first printed in 1788), first state of the plate. The frontispiece is after a drawing by Fuseli (see Essick, Blake and His Contemporaries., 43 for the original drawing) and is a powerful image. The text notes ?End of Vol. I? but no further volumes appeared as a fire destroyed Lavater?s manuscript at the printer. The Huntington Library has Blake?s own copy, extensively annotated throughout. Bentley, Blake Books, 480. Essick and Easson 2, XXXII, 1c. Essick, William Blake?s Commercial Book Illustrations, XVIII. Pencil note at front recording that this copy was purchased from H.D. (Dicky) Lyon in 1987.