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George Stubbs (1724-1806)
The Anatomy of the Horse. London: J. Purser for the author, 1766. Broadsheet oblong 2° (486 x 595mm). 24 etched plates by and after Stubbs, including 4 key plates, (Title and a1 creased, pinhole flaws on some text leaves and plates, title and some text leaves and plates with skilfully-repaired, mainly marginal tears, title, a1 and Aa1 reinforced on the blank versos.) Modern half calf over marbled boards, the spine gilt in compartments, gilt-leather lettering piece, tan cloth box. Provenance: occasional, early, pencilled marginalia.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. A WORK THAT 'HAS BOTH SCIENTIFIC AND ARTISTIC IMPORTANCE, AND ... ENJOYS WITH THE WORKS OF VESALIUS AND ALBINUS, AN ESTEEM FAR BEYOND THE SPECIAL AREA OF LEARNING FOR WHICH IT WAS DESIGNED' (Doherty, quoted by Norman). Stubbs' drawings for the plates were executed between 1756 and 1759, and were based on numerous dissections that the artist had performed himself. Once the drawings were finished, Stubbs unsuccessfully attempted to find an engraver (many engravers felt the subjects of the plates fell beyond their knowledge), and was forced to engrave them himself, thus effecting his transformation from an engraver of limited ability to one of great skill. The plates were prepared in the following six years, and when the work was published, had the important effect of causing him 'henceforth to be regarded primarily as an animal painter, whereas his previous provincial reputation had been based on portraits' (Lennox-Boyd). The work itself 'remained the standard authority on its subject for nearly a century. It marked a major advance in the study of equine anatomy, and Gilbey, who calculated that out of forty-nine authors prior to George Stubbs, only one, the seventeenth-century English farrier Andrew Snape, had produced a study that compared with the ''exhaustive description'' of The Anatomy of the Horse, maintained that ''if he [Stubbs] had never painted a picture, [this] stands as his monument' (Lennox-Boyd).
The text was probably printed at the time of publication, but the plates, which could be printed on demand, appear to have been printed as copies were sold, and copies with plates watermarked with dates from 1798 to 1827 are known. The plates in the present copy are not watermarked, and both the text and plates are on laid paper. As Lennox-Boyd notes, 'copies ... issued in 1766, and in most of those sold in Stubbs's lifetime, both the letterpress and the plates were printed on laid paper', and the later copies were printed on wove paper. Brunet V, col.571; Dingley Comben 600 (later issue, plates watermarked 1823); Eales Cole ... 1472-1800 1840; ESTC T147211; Garrison and Morton 308.1; Lennox-Boyd Stubbs 165-188; Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship 57; Nissen ZBI 4027; Norman 2032 (later issue, plates watermarked '1798').
The Anatomy of the Horse. London: J. Purser for the author, 1766. Broadsheet oblong 2° (486 x 595mm). 24 etched plates by and after Stubbs, including 4 key plates, (Title and a1 creased, pinhole flaws on some text leaves and plates, title and some text leaves and plates with skilfully-repaired, mainly marginal tears, title, a1 and Aa1 reinforced on the blank versos.) Modern half calf over marbled boards, the spine gilt in compartments, gilt-leather lettering piece, tan cloth box. Provenance: occasional, early, pencilled marginalia.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. A WORK THAT 'HAS BOTH SCIENTIFIC AND ARTISTIC IMPORTANCE, AND ... ENJOYS WITH THE WORKS OF VESALIUS AND ALBINUS, AN ESTEEM FAR BEYOND THE SPECIAL AREA OF LEARNING FOR WHICH IT WAS DESIGNED' (Doherty, quoted by Norman). Stubbs' drawings for the plates were executed between 1756 and 1759, and were based on numerous dissections that the artist had performed himself. Once the drawings were finished, Stubbs unsuccessfully attempted to find an engraver (many engravers felt the subjects of the plates fell beyond their knowledge), and was forced to engrave them himself, thus effecting his transformation from an engraver of limited ability to one of great skill. The plates were prepared in the following six years, and when the work was published, had the important effect of causing him 'henceforth to be regarded primarily as an animal painter, whereas his previous provincial reputation had been based on portraits' (Lennox-Boyd). The work itself 'remained the standard authority on its subject for nearly a century. It marked a major advance in the study of equine anatomy, and Gilbey, who calculated that out of forty-nine authors prior to George Stubbs, only one, the seventeenth-century English farrier Andrew Snape, had produced a study that compared with the ''exhaustive description'' of The Anatomy of the Horse, maintained that ''if he [Stubbs] had never painted a picture, [this] stands as his monument' (Lennox-Boyd).
The text was probably printed at the time of publication, but the plates, which could be printed on demand, appear to have been printed as copies were sold, and copies with plates watermarked with dates from 1798 to 1827 are known. The plates in the present copy are not watermarked, and both the text and plates are on laid paper. As Lennox-Boyd notes, 'copies ... issued in 1766, and in most of those sold in Stubbs's lifetime, both the letterpress and the plates were printed on laid paper', and the later copies were printed on wove paper. Brunet V, col.571; Dingley Comben 600 (later issue, plates watermarked 1823); Eales Cole ... 1472-1800 1840; ESTC T147211; Garrison and Morton 308.1; Lennox-Boyd Stubbs 165-188; Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship 57; Nissen ZBI 4027; Norman 2032 (later issue, plates watermarked '1798').
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