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ROWLANDSON, Thomas (1756-1827), illustrator – COMBE, William (1741-1823). English Dance of Death. London: J. Diggens at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1815-1816.
2 volumes, 8° (255 x 165 mm). Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and hand-colored aquatint title in vol. one, 72 hand-colored aquatint plates after Rowlandson. (Some light offsetting, a few leaves with marginal tears touching imprint, plate 12 imprint dated July 1, not June 1 as called for in Abbey.) Original grey boards, printed paper labels on spines, uncut (skillfully rebacked preserving original spine, some light wear); red morocco pull-off case gilt.
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. For Tooley this work is “one of the essential pivots of any colour plate library.” Ray considers it “the perfect complement” to Rowlandson's Microcosm of London since “here the artist is concerned for the most part not with crowds, but with scenes of violent action or intense emotion drawn from private life. Far from seeming repetitious, the figure of King Death provides a sardonic presence which adds immensely to the scenes he stage manages.” Abbey Life 263; Ray 35; Tooley 411.
2 volumes, 8° (255 x 165 mm). Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and hand-colored aquatint title in vol. one, 72 hand-colored aquatint plates after Rowlandson. (Some light offsetting, a few leaves with marginal tears touching imprint, plate 12 imprint dated July 1, not June 1 as called for in Abbey.) Original grey boards, printed paper labels on spines, uncut (skillfully rebacked preserving original spine, some light wear); red morocco pull-off case gilt.
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. For Tooley this work is “one of the essential pivots of any colour plate library.” Ray considers it “the perfect complement” to Rowlandson's Microcosm of London since “here the artist is concerned for the most part not with crowds, but with scenes of violent action or intense emotion drawn from private life. Far from seeming repetitious, the figure of King Death provides a sardonic presence which adds immensely to the scenes he stage manages.” Abbey Life 263; Ray 35; Tooley 411.