.jpg?w=1)
Details
WOODWARD, George Moutard. Satire. Sketches from Nature, Flights of Fancy, and Original Ideas, intended to banish care – divert melancholy – increase mirth, and above all to pourtray vice and folly in their proper colours. London: S.W. Fores, [imprint on plates 1794-1797; plates watermarked 1794].
3 parts bound in one, oblong 2° (340 x 462mm). 45 hand-coloured etched plates after Woodward by Isaac Cruikshank and others. With an original watercolour inscribed in ink, bound in opposite the etched plate 'Apologies for Tippling.' (Some plates trimmed with loss of imprint, top margin or border, original drawing laid down with loss of upper outer corner and a long but clean closed tear, very lightly browned, a few spots.) Light brown half morocco by the Lakeside Press Chicago, original drab front wrappers of each vol. bound in at start of each volume (without rear wrappers), cloth slipcase (spine a little darkened). Provenance: purchased from Stack, New York, 15 February 1944.
A SCARCE COMPLETE COPY WITH AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR in which women and men alike praise the recuperative powers of alcohol.. There is no auction record for this work over the past 25 years, and only one incomplete copy is located in WorldCat (Brown University Library, 2 vols. with 30 plates). Each plate consists of characters arranged in double rows voicing their thoughts on a particular theme. In fact Woodward exploited the continuous strip and speech bubble device successfully enough to be regarded as 'the pioneer of the strip cartoon' (ODNB).
Special notice
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium.
Brought to you by
Rupert Neelands