Thomas redgrave (5 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Collected poetical works by Oliver Goldsmith adorned with illustrations by the members of the Etching Club, first edition thus. Oliver Goldsmith was an important Anglo-Irish author in the eighteenth century. A later impression of his collected poems, with descriptive and lyrical poems as well as prologues and epilogues, each annotated. Featuring also a biographical memoir of the author. Edited by Bolton Corney.Featuring poems including 'The Traveller' and 'The Deserted Village' among other miscellaneous poems, epilogues and prologues.Illustrated with wood engravings by the members of the 'Etching Club': C. W. Cope, Thomas Creswick, J. C. Horsely, R. Redgrave, and Frederick Tayler. Rebound in full calf with five raised bands, gilt tooling to spine, gilt to edges, new marbled endpapers. Externally smart with mild shelf wear, minor marks and light soiling to boards and spine. G. Pearson Barnsley stamp to a front blank leaf. Internally, firmly bound. Considerable spotting to first and last few leaves only, otherwise pages generally bright and clean. With wood engravings in text. Very Good Indeed. C. W. Cope; Thomas Creswick; J. C. Horsely; R. Redgrave; Frederick Tayler (illustrator). book.…

Zustand: Good. [23] leaves of text and 20 colour engravings each with tissue guard. (4to) 32.5x24 cm (12¾ x 9½") period three-quarter blue morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt. Edges worn, front hinge open; paper a bit toned but overall internally near fine.Henry Vizetelly, Printer and engraver, Gough Square, Fleet Street"Plates engraved by Louis Marvy; after Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, J.M.W. Turner, J. Holland, Francis Danby, Thomas Creswick, William Collins, Richard Redgrave, Frederick Richard Lee, George Cattermole, William James Mu?ller, James Duffield Harding, Peter Nasmyth, Richard Wilson, Edward William Cooke, John Constable, Peter De Wint, David Cox, Thomas Gainsborough, David Roberts, and Clarkson Stanfield. Each plate is followed by a short critique by Thackeray. Thackeray was an old friend of Marvy, a French artist, who took refuge in London after the chaos of 1848. Theodore Taylor's 1864 biography of Thackeray mentions the history of the book: "A fine and skillful landscape painter himself, M. Marvy, while here, as a means of earning a living, made a series of engravings after the works of our English landscape painters. The publishers, however, would not undertake the work without a series of letter-press notices of each picture from Thackeray; and the latter accordingly added some criticisms which are interesting as developing his theory of this kind of art" (p.32). An interesting and quite scarce Thackeray item, very rarely found colored.Abbey, Life in England, no 207 : "The majority of the copies issued were uncoloured.".…