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PUGIN, Augustus (1762-1832) and Thomas ROWLANDSON (1757-1827), illustrators. The Microcosm of London. London: R. Ackermann, [1808-1810] [watermarked 1806-1808].
3 volumes, 4° (339 x 280mm). Half-titles, wood-engraved titles, engraved dedications, 104 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Bluck, Stadler and others after Pugin and Rowlandson. (Offsetting from plates throughout, some text leaves in vol. I lightly and evenly browned). Green morocco gilt by C. Hering, sides with wide and richly tooled border in gilt and blind, gilt spines directly lettered and filled with massed pointillé tools, brown silk liners with gilt ropework border and shamrock at corners, wide gilt turn-ins with multiple motifs, gilt edges (vol. 3 with upper joints rubbed and slight paper adhesion to lower cover, other vols more lightly rubbed). Provenance: Sir Henry Hope Edwardes, 10th Baronet (1829-1900; bookplate).
A famous collaborative work between Pugin and Rowlandson, the former providing the architectural designs, the latter the 'artfully disposed' human figures on the plates. Originally issued in 26 monthly parts. Abbey, Scenery 212; Ray, English 33; Tooley 7.
3 volumes, 4° (339 x 280mm). Half-titles, wood-engraved titles, engraved dedications, 104 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Bluck, Stadler and others after Pugin and Rowlandson. (Offsetting from plates throughout, some text leaves in vol. I lightly and evenly browned). Green morocco gilt by C. Hering, sides with wide and richly tooled border in gilt and blind, gilt spines directly lettered and filled with massed pointillé tools, brown silk liners with gilt ropework border and shamrock at corners, wide gilt turn-ins with multiple motifs, gilt edges (vol. 3 with upper joints rubbed and slight paper adhesion to lower cover, other vols more lightly rubbed). Provenance: Sir Henry Hope Edwardes, 10th Baronet (1829-1900; bookplate).
A famous collaborative work between Pugin and Rowlandson, the former providing the architectural designs, the latter the 'artfully disposed' human figures on the plates. Originally issued in 26 monthly parts. Abbey, Scenery 212; Ray, English 33; Tooley 7.
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