William Darton, Darton, Darton & Clark, Edward Suter. John Bysh, Darton and the Reparatory of Genius, Infant School Depository, Home and Colonial Infant School Society, and others (printers and publishers)

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Two rolls of educational prints for infants, the subjects including costumes, geography, astronomy, geometry, grammar, natural history, topography, trades, and others

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William Darton, Darton, Darton & Clark, Edward Suter. John Bysh, Darton and the Reparatory of Genius, Infant School Depository, Home and Colonial Infant School Society, and others (printers and publishers)
Two rolls of educational prints for infants, the subjects including costumes, geography, astronomy, geometry, grammar, natural history, topography, trades, and others
handcoloured aquatints, engravings and lithographs, the majority published 1820s-40s
the first roll comprising 42 joined sheets, fully extended 510 x 18 ½in. (1295.5 x 47cm.)
the second roll comprising 47 joined sheets, fully extended 670 x 18 ½in. (1702 x 47cm.)

Provenance

Private collection, Canada.

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Lot Essay

The prints include a fine set of six plates of sugar production after William Clark's Ten views in the Island Antigua, London, 1823 (Abbey Travel 690), and a set of twelve plates ('The Progress of Cotton'), after Edward Baines's History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, London, 1835.

An extensive collection of educational prints for infants mounted on their original spools.

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