edward finden illustrator (1 Ergebnisse)

Two volumes, 8vo, containing 120 plates (landscape scenes and portraits, mostly by E.Finden, a few by W. Finden or T. Higham), each with a tissue guard; fine impressions, occasional very slight foxing to versos, a few small dampstains and spots; withal a handsome set in early green pebble-grained morocco, covers gilt with an intricate linear pattern made of small tools, edges gilt, blue moiré silk endpapers; joints lightly rubbed (particularly at head), light wear to spine and corners; autograph letter c. 1848, signed by Finden, to the publishers W. & R. Chambers of Edinburgh, tipped in at start of vol.I; bookplates of Charles E.S. Chambers to pastedowns, 1914 ownership inscription 'Lily Grand, Dulwich?.Finden's attractive engraved illustrations to the works of Byron, taken after drawings and paintings by Turner, Stanfield, Weston, and others, and his portraits of the Romantics after paintings in the Murrays' collection, here with an autograph letter from the engraver to the Edinburgh publishers W.&R.Chambers. Published in parts by John Murray in 18334, the engravings have here been assembled from the parts as a suite of plates without title-pages (the order of parts not preserved but the five engravings per part often found together). Later they would appear with descriptive text by Brockenden in a three-volume collected edition (with the engravings in a very different order). Portraits of 'Monk' Lewis, Southey, Coleridge, Clare, Murray, Ada Lovelace, Caroline Lamb, and others appear at the start of the second volume; the other engravings are of European and Middle Eastern scenes associated with Byron, from Missolonghi to the Palace of Ali Pasha and the Dungeon of Chillon. Provenance: 1. With a tipped-in autograph letter signed 'Edwd F. Finden' (17911857) to the publishers W. & R. Chambers of Edinburgh. The autograph letter tipped in here relates to Finden's later publication of The Tales and Poems of Lord Byron, with forty-six engravings: 'The present work has cost me great labour and expense, but I think that the Poems I have selected to illustrate are so beautiful as to be worthy of even greater outlay'.2. Likely passed by descent from Robert Chambers (b. 1802), co-founder of W. & R. Chambers, to his son, Charles E.S. Chambers (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of a select Portion of the Library and of a Collection of autograph Letters the Property of C.E.S. Chambers, Esq., 7 May 1914, lot 114). 3. 1914 ownership inscription of Lilly Grand, Dulwich, to both volumes. Language: English.