Swain engraver (9 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. B & W illustration on newsprint. 27.5 x 21 cm (sheet). Good, tears along sheet edges, missing some areas along sheet corners and right sheet edge.

Zustand: Good. Engraving on wove paper. 21.5 x 26 cm (sheet). Text on verso. Very Good, light toning along sheet edge.

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper. The letter begins: 'As cheapness seems the chief topic at present, I send you 'something cheap' which I trust may suit the Gazette.' He asks, 'when any verse of mine appears in the Gazette', for a stamped copy. He has 'many friends, connected with the Local press, who would quote & thus be serviceable to you'. In a postscript he tells Jerdan: 'You must please yourself about "Something Cheap" it is out of my usual way, written off hand: and I may have missed my mark.'. …

Zustand: Good. Wood engraving on newsprint. 34 x 25.5 cm (sheet). Very Good, print affixed to another support sheet all round.

Zustand: Good. Steel engraving. 15.5 x 22 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Text on verso.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 1st Edition. First edition. [xii], 224pp. Illustrated frontispiece, vignette on red and black title page, illustrated and ornamented throughout. Bound in full brown leather decorated with gilt and blind tooling, gilt lettering front and spine, five panels/four raised bands to spine., all edges sprayed red. Bevelled boards. Brown endpapers. Brown satin marker bound in. Printed in black with red page decorations, page borders and accents throughout. Many double page spreads with Rogers' title and evocative passage (or two) on the left and his visual representations opposite. 8vo. Boards are moderately worn, most markedly at edges, a few light scratch marks, rubbed on corners and spine ends, spine faded, upper text block edge darkened and dust marked. Front hinge broken, releasing backstrip and front panel, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. William Harry Rogers was among the finest artist-designers of the mid-Victorian era , peer of the likes of Augustus Pugin and Owen Jones. He won several medals at the 1851 Great Exhibition and he subsequently specialised in book design and augmentation, becoming the supreme book designer of the 1850s and 1860s. Gregory Jones, in his book on William Harry Rogers, says of Spiritual Conceits, it is 'WHR's most complete work in book form, the only one in which he had a free hand in devising the striking whole-page plates.the book provides the most extensive and striking development of WHR's exploration of the emblem.Spiritual Conceits has no obvious peer in the High Victorian period' [Jones, Gregory, William Harry Rogers: Victorian Book Designer and Star of the Great Exhibition, p. 141]. Engravings by Joseph Swain and printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press. A second edition of Spiritual Conceits was issued in 1870 under the title Emblems of Christian Life. An important, scarce work. Rogers, W Harry; Swain, Joseph (engraver) (illustrator).…

Zustand: Good. Hand-colored wood engraving. 17 x 26 cm (sheet). Very Good, tape along sheet edges on verso, text on verso.Provenance: From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

Zustand: Good. Two hand-colored engravings on newsprint. 10.5 x 14.4 cm. (each image). 13 x 18 cm. (each sheet). Very Good. Each sheet taped to backboard.

4pp., 12mo. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. Addressed to 'My dear friend', and with the name of the recipient obliterated from the valediction: 'Will you give my sincere and grateful remembrances to your noble hearted husband? and believe me | dear | Every affectionately, | [signed] Charles Swain'. He can put off 'the evil day' no longer, and must now 'give in to circumstances' and reluctantly inform her that he cannot come and visit. 'After all the enjoyment I promised myself in your society this is hard: and I go on picturing to myself your friendly faces and cordial welcome until my heart aches to see the impediments standing in the way of so much (unnusual) pleasure.' He feels sure she has been 'calling me all sorts of names', 'but something has occurred - which had to be met and set right:- and I am now left with as many more disjointed things to cope with as will take a month to remove'. In a postscript he conveys the regards of his wife and family, before ending: 'A shake of the hand to my old friend Jerdan should you see him. - When is that 4th Vol to astonish the world?' The reference is to the fourth volume of Jerdan's 'Autobiography', which appeared in 1853.…