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ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator – [PAPWORTH, John Buonarotti (1775-1847)]. Poetical Sketches of Scarborough. London: R. Ackermann, 1813.
8° (244 x 152mm). 21 hand-coloured plates by T. Rowlandson after J. Green, including frontispiece. (Text spotted throughout, plates with occasional marginal spotting.) Polished calf gilt by Morell, London, sides with triple fillet and floral corner-pieces, spine gilt in compartments with morocco labels, top edges gilt, others uncut. Provenance: Cortlandt F. Bishop (bookplate; purchased at his sale, 7 April 1938). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Scenery 297; Tooley 422.
[With:] Arthur Benoni Evans, The Cutter in five Lectures upon the Art and Practice of Cutting Friends, Acquaintances, and Relations. London, 1808. 8°. 6 folding hand-coloured aquatint plates by and after J.A. Atkinson, uncut in contemporary boards; and the first illustrated edition of Charles William Hempel, The Commercial Tourist; or, Gentleman Traveller. London: 1822. 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates by and after R. Cruikshank. (Printing flaw on p.103 causing loss of one or two words in ten lines of text.) Green morocco by Riviere and Son.
8° (244 x 152mm). 21 hand-coloured plates by T. Rowlandson after J. Green, including frontispiece. (Text spotted throughout, plates with occasional marginal spotting.) Polished calf gilt by Morell, London, sides with triple fillet and floral corner-pieces, spine gilt in compartments with morocco labels, top edges gilt, others uncut. Provenance: Cortlandt F. Bishop (bookplate; purchased at his sale, 7 April 1938). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Scenery 297; Tooley 422.
[With:] Arthur Benoni Evans, The Cutter in five Lectures upon the Art and Practice of Cutting Friends, Acquaintances, and Relations. London, 1808. 8°. 6 folding hand-coloured aquatint plates by and after J.A. Atkinson, uncut in contemporary boards; and the first illustrated edition of Charles William Hempel, The Commercial Tourist; or, Gentleman Traveller. London: 1822. 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates by and after R. Cruikshank. (Printing flaw on p.103 causing loss of one or two words in ten lines of text.) Green morocco by Riviere and Son.
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