Lot Essay
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Details
JACQUES CALLOT (1592-1635)
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including 41 plates from the Nancy set, 1621, and four from the Florence set, 1617, lacking five plates, all on laid paper, good to very good impressions, mostly with small margins, some trimmed to the platemark, all tipped onto laid paper sheets; also including a number of similar subjects in the manner of Callot and seven various plates by Stefano della Bella; all bound in a late 18th century quarter-calf binding with marbled boards and end-papers, the binding worn; generally in good condition
244 x 196 mm. (album)
Capricci di varie figure
including 41 plates from the Nancy set, 1621, and four from the Florence set, 1617, lacking five plates, all on laid paper, good to very good impressions, mostly with small margins, some trimmed to the platemark, all tipped onto laid paper sheets; also including a number of similar subjects in the manner of Callot and seven various plates by Stefano della Bella; all bound in a late 18th century quarter-calf binding with marbled boards and end-papers, the binding worn; generally in good condition
244 x 196 mm. (album)
Provenance
Thomas Walker, London (with his bookplate).
Laura Meysich (?), 1850; and A.W. H. Hay, 1880 (according to a manuscript label on the fly-leaf).
A. A. Hay, Harewood Lodge (?), dated 1868 (with their bookplate).
Jones, 20th century (with their bookplate).
Laura Meysich (?), 1850; and A.W. H. Hay, 1880 (according to a manuscript label on the fly-leaf).
A. A. Hay, Harewood Lodge (?), dated 1868 (with their bookplate).
Jones, 20th century (with their bookplate).
Literature
See Lieure 214-263, 428-477