Thomas lupton engraver (4 Ergebnisse)

3pp., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. A friend of Lupton's 'has just arrived from Paris with a few choice matters, among others is as I understand an extraordinary Collection of Autographs'. Lupton told his friend that Trench was 'no buyer, but from your knowledge of such matters you could advise him'. The autographs 'consist of official documents connected with the Custom House & Police from the time of the first revolution (1790) to the present date, and about a hundred letters'. They include 'an autograph of Napoleon as Emperor Louis Phillipe [sic]', also 'Phillip [sic] d'Egalite Genl Moira & most of the noted men in the Chamber of Peers'. If Trench comes to town 'the Books are at 3 Salisbury Street Strand at Mr. Lucas, and he will be at home from 1 oClock to 5'. He is 'In a devil of a hurry', and concludes by sending his 'kindest regards to the Cooper Family'.…

Zustand: Good. Mezzotint. 31 x 24 cm (sheet). Good, black tape around some sheet edges, light specks of foxing, sheet toned, short tear at top of sheet, extending just into image.

For more on Nicholson, see his entry by James Ogden in the Oxford DNB. LETTER: 1p., 12mo. In fair condition, on lightly aged and creased paper. At foot of page: 'An acrostic Written for Mr Lupton Esqre | Septr 20th 1828 | John Nicholson'. The poem, the first letter of whose lines spell out 'LUPTON' (the engraver Thomas Goff Lupton?), reads: 'Love thy father Love thy God | unto him Give honor who the seas has trod | Pray to him upon thy Knees | To him who form'd the world the seas | Order'd Creation made Eternity | Nature is but a shade compard to Thee'. PORTRAIT: Lithographic engraving. Without date or place. Cut down. Aged and spotted, with vertical crease. Captioned with facsimile of Nicholson's signature, and the words 'The Yorkshire Poet'. …

London, John Murray,1833, in-folio, landscape format, 27 x 38 cm, (4)nn pp ( engraved frontispice, title page ) + xi pp (with engraved portrait) + (2)nn pp (list of subscribers) + 139 pp + 6 full page sepia tinted aquatint engravings. (Complete). Bound in watering maroon cloth, with maroon leather label with gilt lettering on front cover, maroon coloured endpapers. Binding with some wear at extremities, spine with some minor loss of material, interior fine without staining or foxing but only some offsetting on the serpent leaves. Still a fine copy of a rare and super romantic book. The portrait engraving of the author is made after a painting by G. Hayter.…