Rowlandson thomas illus (26 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1903. New Edition. 265 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Colour illustrated plates. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Missing front free endpaper. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and rear free endpaper. Moderate cracking to gutters and hinges exposing netting and causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with moderate staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft splitting and crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.…

Zustand: Good. 1903. New Edition. 265 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Colour illustrated plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.…

Zustand: Very Good. Leatherette boards.

Zustand: Like New. Quarter-bound in richly coloured leather; cloth covered boards. Raised bands and gilt lettering on spine; Gold decoration on spine and boards. Marbled endpapers, matching sewn-in bookmark and all edges gilt.

oblong, 4to. pp. 206, [2]. profusely illus. in colour. map illus. endleaves. cloth. dw. (minor edge wear, 3 tears).

Zustand: Good. 22 x 13 cm. Good. Staining on Corners from scotch taping, penciled notation bottom right. Penciled notation on reverse. [Aquatint etching.].

Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Modern rebind with new endpapers. Occasional scattered light foxing. 260mm x 170mm (10" x 7"). viii, 254pp. 24 colour plates by Rowlandson. Lovely edition of Goldsmith's classic. Based on the Ackermann edition of 1817. Grey hardback cloth spine over papered boards. …

First Edition. Poor copy in the original gilt-illustrated green cloth boards, now somewhat scuffed and rubbed along the edges. Bottom corners bumped. Endbands rubbed, with rear joint split and spine cover separating; tight, smaller tear to the front joint. Front hinge starting, with t.p.-p. iv loose. The text shows occasional marginal annotations and faint foxing only; flyleaf and title page show contemporary reader inscriptions. The colour plates are well-preserved overall, although those facing pp. 222 and 224 are loose and ragged along the edge. A complete and serviceable copy. Physical description; xlviii, 354 pages. Notes; "The original edition, complete and unabridged, with life of the author by John Camden Hotten; and eighty full page illustrations drawn and coloured after the originals by T. Rowlandson." Subjects; Humorous fiction. Satire. Travel literature. 19th century. Illustrated. Thomas Rowlandson. Regency. Tour. Picturesque. Comic verse. English literature. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Poor copy in the original gilt-illustrated green cloth boards, now somewhat scuffed and rubbed along the edges. Bottom corners bumped. Endbands rubbed, with rear joint split and spine cover separating; tight, smaller tear to the front joint. Front hinge starting, with t.p.-p. iv loose. The text shows occasional marginal annotations and faint foxing only; flyleaf and title page show contemporary reader inscriptions. The colour plates are well-preserved overall, although those facing pp. 222 and 224 are loose and ragged along the edge. A complete and serviceable copy. Physical description; xlviii, 354 pages. Notes; "The original edition, complete and unabridged, with life of the author by John Camden Hotten; and eighty full page illustrations drawn and coloured after the originals by T. Rowlandson." Subjects; Humorous fiction. Satire. Travel literature. 19th century. Illustrated. Thomas Rowlandson. Regency. Tour. Picturesque. Comic verse. English literature. 1 Kg.…

Zustand: Very Good.

hardcover. Zustand: poor. no jacket. n.d. (c.1869). (4), xlviii, 354pp., 16pp.(publisher's list for 1869. misnumbered as 19pp.). Bound in publisher's green cloth, gilt illus.to front board, gilt illus.and title to spine. A.e.g. Gray e.ps. Numerous coloured illus. 19.6x13.3cm. Front board worn at corners, rear board sl.rubbed and worn at corners, spine somewhat darkened and worn. Hinges of spine and boards started and partly torn. Edges rubbed. E.ps.stained and started. Binding loosened. Pencil notations to front flyleaf and ink and pencil noatations to recto of frontis. Verso of the title page of ".Picturesque" stained at joint. From front flyleaf to page xviii about to detach. Pages and plates foxing and some are light spotted. [f1386-171494].…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and blind-bordered cloth, edges very slightly toned. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 2 p. 1., [iii]-xlviii, 354 p. col. front., 77 col. pl. 20 cm. Notes; "Bibliographical list of the works written by William Combe": p. [xl]-xlviii. Subjects; William Combe (1742-1823). Fiction. 19th century fiction. Genres; Bibliography. Biography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

Limited Edition. No. 310 of 1500 hand-numbered copies. Octavo (25.5cm); half red morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to spine; top edge gilt; 327pp; illus. In publisher's board slipcase. A tight, Fine copy in the original publisher's slipcase, lightly dusted, Near Fine.

Three-Quarter Leather. Zustand: Very good +. Replica of annotated edition of 1813. Limited edition of 260 copies; this copy has no number. xv, 215 p. 21 colour plates. Bound in half red leather with red paper boards, gilt trim. Repaired front hinge. Edges of free endpapers browned. Moderate thumbing. A couple of small spots on title page. A few page edges roughened. Still a gorgeous volume that will add a lovely touch of colour to your shelf. Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827) was an English artist and caricaturist well-known for his humorous drawings of various aspects of social life. One of the authors of the accompanying verse was Archdeacon Francis Wrangham, an advocate for the abolition of slavery, women's education, Catholic rights, charity schools, free libraries, charity hospitals and other progressive social ideas.…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and blind-bordered cloth, edges very slightly toned. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 2 p. 1., [iii]-xlviii, 354 p. col. front., 77 col. pl. 20 cm. Notes; "Bibliographical list of the works written by William Combe": p. [xl]-xlviii. Subjects; William Combe (1742-1823). Fiction. 19th century fiction. Genres; Bibliography. Biography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and blind-bordered cloth, edges very slightly toned. Some wear and tear as with age. Title page loose. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 2 preliminary leaves, [iii]-xlviii, 354 pages color frontispiece, 77 color plates 20 cm. Notes; Bound in green cloth; stamped in gold and blind; gray coated endpapers. Front free endpaper, frontispiece, engraved title-page, detached. Subjects; Combe, William (1742-1823). Verse satire. English poetry 19th century. Genres; Bibliography. English wit and humor. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and blind-bordered cloth, edges very slightly toned. Some wear and tear as with age. Title page loose. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 2 preliminary leaves, [iii]-xlviii, 354 pages color frontispiece, 77 color plates 20 cm. Notes; Bound in green cloth; stamped in gold and blind; gray coated endpapers. Front free endpaper, frontispiece, engraved title-page, detached. Subjects; Combe, William (1742-1823). Verse satire. English poetry 19th century. Genres; Bibliography. English wit and humor. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Scattered marginal foxing. Finely and [period] sympathetically bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Blind-tooled cross-bands with the title blocked direct in gilt. An exceptional set; of presentation quality - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Related names; Combe, William (1742-1823) - contains the first print appearance of Doctor Syntax - 'The schoolmaster's tour'. Physical description; 4 v. : ill., (part col.) ; 22 cm. Notes; v. 1-4; May 1809-Apr. 1811. All published. Engraved t.p. in each volume. Index in each v. Subtitle varies slightly. The schoolmaster's tour [of Dr. Syntax]. 3 Kg. …

First Edition. Scattered marginal foxing. Finely and [period] sympathetically bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Blind-tooled cross-bands with the title blocked direct in gilt. An exceptional set; of presentation quality - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Related names; Combe, William (1742-1823) - contains the first print appearance of Doctor Syntax - 'The schoolmaster's tour'. Physical description; 4 v. : ill., (part col.) ; 22 cm. Notes; v. 1-4; May 1809-Apr. 1811. All published. Engraved t.p. in each volume. Index in each v. Subtitle varies slightly. The schoolmaster's tour [of Dr. Syntax]. 3 Kg. …

First edition in book form of Rowlandson and Combe's vastly popular satire of common picturesque travel books of the time. The books combine the illustrator's signature caricature-style with author's narrative verse to recount the various mishaps of the titular character. Dr Syntax first appeared in Ackermann's Poetical Magazine in 1809. The character was based on the artist, cleric and travel writer William Gilpin. Combe and Rowlandson both sought to mock his writings on picturesque adventures. Tooley 427-429. 3 vols, octavo (227 x 133 mm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispieces, hand-coloured aquatint titles to vols I and III, 75 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Late 19th-century blue crushed morocco by Rivière and Son, spine gilt-lettered direct, gilt in compartments with floral design, double gilt fillet framing to boards and triple gilt fillet design in centre, gilt floral cornerpieces to boards, gilt board edges, gilt inner dentelles, red endpapers, gilt edges. Bookplate of Douglas Kerr to front pastedowns. Spines lightly sunned, faint soiling to boards, couple of spots of rubbing, a little foxing to edges and outer leaves; split to lower rear hinge vol II, but firm. A very good set presenting handsomely on the shelf.…

First editions. The Tours follow the amusing misadventures of the titular character, a foolish clergyman and schoolmaster, and satirize contemporary travel writing. Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) created the vivid, caricature-style illustrations of Dr Syntax's various mishaps, and William Coombe (1742-1823) composed the narrative poems that accompany them. Dr Syntax first appeared in Ackermann's Poetical Magazine in 1809. The character is based on the artist, cleric and travel writer William Gilpin (1724-1804). In his 1768 Essay on Prints, Gilpin defined the picturesque as "a term expressive of that peculiar kind of beauty, which is agreeable in a picture" (p. 2). His writing encouraged amateur artists to travel in search of picturesque vistas to reproduce. Coombe mocks such as activities: "His pencil too perfom'd its duty / In sketching many a landscape beauty / Scarce rose a cot within the bound / That his dominion did surround / Whose whiten'd walls did not impart / Some bounty on the Doctor's art". During his early career as an artist, Rowlandson travelled extensively through Britain and Continental Europe, producing a mix of caricatures and the style landscape painting mocked in the Tours. At the beginning of the 19th century, he moved into book and magazine illustration and was primarily employed by Rudolph Ackermann. His work demonstrates his vast range. He was "as much a master of the lyrical watercolour of rolling countryside as of the incisive caricature". The latter, seen here, is "marked by brilliant draughtsmanship and acute observation of stance, movement, and character" (ODNB). Houfe, p. 285. Two works, (257 x 166 mm), large octavo in half-sheets. 24 coloured aquatint plates in each vol., tissue guards in Third Tour, woodcut vignette to p. [51] of Second Tour, aquatint title page and vignette tailpiece in Third Tour. Contemporary red straight-grain half morocco, spines flat, lettered in gilt with gilt and blind tooling, marbled sides and endpapers, all edges untrimmed. Spots of wear to board edges and corners, covers a little rubbed, occasional offsetting from plates, well-margined: in very good condition.…

First edition of the first tour of Doctor Syntax, first published as a separate book in 1812 as Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque. 4 vols, octavo. Contemporary straight-grain dark red morocco, labels renewed. Housed in a custom red cloth solander box. Light rubbing to joints, some toning to contents else clean. A very good set.…

First edition of "one of the essential pivots of any colour plate library", a work "indispensable to any Rowlandson collection" (Tooley). It was part of a wave of modern interpretations of the Dance reinvigorated by a return to Holbein's satiric impulse. Rowlandson's vivacious plates depict a particularly vindictive figure of Death. Holbein's 1538 designs "may have inspired Rowlandson but in his Dance of Death he takes his characters from the world round him, sees them in his own original way, and imparts to the subject his own satirical humour, with its curious combination of the sublime and the ludicrous. The union of the gruesome and the grotesque appealed strongly to his imagination, and in completeness of detail and carefulness of grouping the illustrations excel nearly all his other work" (Hardie). The accompanying text by William Combe (1742-1823), one of a series of comic poems written for Rowlandson and for which he is still most famous, is "full of wit and vigour" (ibid.). Published in 24 monthly numbers it was issued in two volumes in boards upon completion. Abbey 263, Hardie 171-172; Ray 35; Tooley pp. 332-334. Dancing with Death. The Origins and Development of the Dance of Death Motif and its Representation in Graphic Art: The Gemmell Collection at the University of Glasgow Library, accessible online. 2 vols, large octavo (228 x 142 mm), pp. 296; 300. Frontispiece, title page, and 72 aquatint plates, all finely hand-coloured. Contemporary quarter calf, spine lettered in gilt, marbled paper sides, pale green endpapers, edges speckled green. Bookplate of Swedish travel writer Carl D. Arfwedson. Spines skinned, bindings rubbed, wear to edges, slight browning to endpapers, offsetting from plates, hand-colouring clean, paper reinforcement to fore edge of vol. II title page: a very good copy.…

First Rowlandson edition. Goldsmith's novel was first published in 1766. The publisher's introduction notes that the novel's "pictures of human nature, the virtues it inculcates, and the continuing interest of its story, must always render it a favourite with the good; and will consequently justify the expense which has been bestowed upon this edition of it". Octavo (235 x 142 mm). 24 hand-coloured aquatints by Thomas Rowlandson. Early 20th-century half brown crushed morocco by Bayntun, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, decorations to compartments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine very slightly faded, occasional minor wear to extremities, minor foxing and browning: a near-fine copy.…

Mixed set, with ninth edition of vol. I and stated third edition of vols II-III. Octavo (26cm). Uniformly bound in mid-century orange cloth, stamped in blind on boards and gilt on spines, top edges gilt; pale yellow endpapers; I: [iv],[iv],276pp; II: [vi],277,[1]pp; III: [iv],279,[1]pp; illustrated with hand-colored aquatints, vol. I with 31 plates including frontispiece and engraved title page, vol. II with 24 plates including frontis. (but without engraved t.p., as issued), vol. III with 26 plates including frontis., t.p., and concluding vignette. Binder's ticket of Remnant & Edmonds at rear. Bookplates of Robert Arthur Blane in each volume, with 1849 gift inscription to Blane in vol. I. A straight set, largely sound, cloth rubbed and dustsoiled, corners bumped, vol. I chipped at head; internally with some offsetting and fingersoil, a few plates browned or foxed, and one gathering pulled, but most plates bright and fresh: Very Good. Likely an 1840s issue of this popular comic poem (note that all three volumes state "third edition" on title page, but vol. I also states eighth edition on the engraved title page, and includes the advertisement to the ninth edition). Combe's poems about Doctor Syntax combined "lighthearted satire of William Gilpin's theory of the picturesque in art with a central character modelled on Cervantes' Don Quixote and Henry Fielding's Parson Adams" (ODNB). The works gave the illustrator, Thomas Rowlandson, "ample scope for the comic designs of which he was a master," and the aquatints in these books "were his greatest success as an illustrator" (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914 p.27). Cf. RAY 34 for the first editions.…

First edition of Rowlandson's riposte to Beresford's Miseries of Human Life. The topics discussed include literature, the law, fashion, and politics. Small octavo. Stipple-engraved frontispiece and additional title each with coloured vignette, 5 hand-coloured etched plates after Rowlandson. Later 19th-century red half morocco, marbled sides. Very minor edge wear, light toning. A very good copy.…