AUTHENTIC MEMOIRS OF THE LATE GEORGE MORLAND, WITH REMARKS ON HIS ABILITIES AND PROGRESS AS AN ARTIST: IN WHICH IS INTERSPERSED A VARIETY OF ANECDOTES NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED; TOGETHER WITH A FACSIMILE OF HIS WRITING, SPECIMENS OF HIS HIEROGLYPHICAL SKETCHES, &C. &C??.

MORLAND. BLAGDON, WILLIAM FRANCIS.

Verlag: London. Edward Orme, 1806

Beschreibung

Oblong folio 16 1/2 x 22 inches, original marbled boards and endpapers, rebacked to style with a central leather lettering label. FIRST EDITION. Title and pages 3-15 thus title and 7 leaves. All text leaves watermarked J. 1802. 22 PLATES ON 20 LEAVES INCLUDING 7 IN COLOUR. 1 plate watermarked J. Whatman and 4 plates watermarked 1803 - corresponding to the description of the rare first edition described in the bibliography of English Colour Plate Books by Tooley. Engravers include William Ward, T. Vivares, E. Bell, and R. Dodd. The first plate- a portrait of Morland is a soft ground etching with stipple added to his face with startling effect. The other plates are a mixture of soft ground etching, mezzotint and stipple. The 7 fine colour plates are 5 mezzotints printed in colour and 2 hand coloured soft ground etchings. This work - particularly the colour plates - represent the apotheosis of English bucolic art. Title page repaired, some occasional marginal spotting. A rare and beautiful work, - Tooley writes in his bibliography - Blagdon's Memoirs of George Morland is an extremely scarce book and I have had great difficulty in tracing copies to compare. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4851

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Titel: AUTHENTIC MEMOIRS OF THE LATE GEORGE MORLAND...

Verlag: London. Edward Orme

Erscheinungsdatum: 1806

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1. Auflage