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ERNEST ALFRED HARDOUIN (1820-1854) AND WILHELM LEONARD RITTER (1799-1862)
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ERNEST ALFRED HARDOUIN (1820-1854) AND WILHELM LEONARD RITTER (1799-1862)
Java. Tooneelen uit het leven, karakterschetsen en kleedergragten van java's bewoners...et een voorwoord van H.M.Lange. The Hague: K. Fuhri, 1855. 4° (302 x 220mm). Half-title, vignette lithographic title, printed title, list of subscribers, errata leaf, 26 hand-coloured lithographic plates, folding map hand-coloured in outline, 26 woodcut vignette initials. (Minimal spotting to some leaves and plate versos.) Contemporary quarter page morocco gilt, marbled boards (upper hinge rubbed, one corner bumped).
RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of the book which 'reflects the most perfect harmony between lithographer [Lemercier of Paris] and artist' [Hardouin]. (Bastin & Bromer), with all plates dated 1853 and plate 13 numbered. Issued in 26 parts from 1853-1855 to the 244 subscribers of the complete work only, coloured or uncoloured. A second issue of the first edition appeared in 1855 with A.W. Sijthopff's imprint, he having acquired the title from Fuhri. Bastin & Brommer pp. 30-35, notes 519, 537; Haks & Maris, p.112
Ernest Alfred HARDOUIN and William Leonard RITTER. Tooneelen uit het leven, Karakterschetsen en Kleederdragten van Java's Bewoners...et een voorwoord van M.T.H Perelaer. Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff, 1876. 4° (302 x 220mm). Half-title, printed title, 16 chromolithographic plates, 16 woodcut vignette initials, plates undated, text re-set and printed within red typographic border. Publisher's embossed blue cloth, bevelled edges, upper cover panelled in blind and gilt (spine and corners slightly chipped). Second issue of the second, abridged edition, with the printed title-page, reprinted from Sijthoff's 1872 edition, both with 16 plates only. Bastin & Brommer pp.34-35, notes 539, 541, 689. (2)
Java. Tooneelen uit het leven, karakterschetsen en kleedergragten van java's bewoners...et een voorwoord van H.M.Lange. The Hague: K. Fuhri, 1855. 4° (302 x 220mm). Half-title, vignette lithographic title, printed title, list of subscribers, errata leaf, 26 hand-coloured lithographic plates, folding map hand-coloured in outline, 26 woodcut vignette initials. (Minimal spotting to some leaves and plate versos.) Contemporary quarter page morocco gilt, marbled boards (upper hinge rubbed, one corner bumped).
RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of the book which 'reflects the most perfect harmony between lithographer [Lemercier of Paris] and artist' [Hardouin]. (Bastin & Bromer), with all plates dated 1853 and plate 13 numbered. Issued in 26 parts from 1853-1855 to the 244 subscribers of the complete work only, coloured or uncoloured. A second issue of the first edition appeared in 1855 with A.W. Sijthopff's imprint, he having acquired the title from Fuhri. Bastin & Brommer pp. 30-35, notes 519, 537; Haks & Maris, p.112
Ernest Alfred HARDOUIN and William Leonard RITTER. Tooneelen uit het leven, Karakterschetsen en Kleederdragten van Java's Bewoners...et een voorwoord van M.T.H Perelaer. Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff, 1876. 4° (302 x 220mm). Half-title, printed title, 16 chromolithographic plates, 16 woodcut vignette initials, plates undated, text re-set and printed within red typographic border. Publisher's embossed blue cloth, bevelled edges, upper cover panelled in blind and gilt (spine and corners slightly chipped). Second issue of the second, abridged edition, with the printed title-page, reprinted from Sijthoff's 1872 edition, both with 16 plates only. Bastin & Brommer pp.34-35, notes 539, 541, 689. (2)
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