The Gallery of Modern British Artists;
VG, 1st ed, c1840, 66 pls (of 65 tp). In contemporary gilt embossed morocco, corners & edges worn. Spine, gilt tooling, no titles, edges worn, some loss. Internally, not paginated, not dated but c1840, frontis, additional engraved title page,…
A Selection of Fac-Similes of Water-Colour Drawings, from the works of the most distinguished British Artists.
[BOWYER R]
A Tour de Force of Engraving and Colouring, with Twelve Finely Coloured Aquatint Plates. 1825, First Edition, First Issue (without title below image), folio, title, 9 ff. text, twelve superb coloured aquatint plates, with guards accompanied by 8…
Sons of the Desert - Original Water Colour Drawings
ALKEN Henry [Thomas] 1785-1851
An Album of Original Water Colour Drawings, of Arab horses and riders, by Henry Alken, c1829 Oblong, in blue long grained morocco by Riviere & Son, elaborate gilt tooling & titles, edges & corners worn. Spine, raised bands, decorative gilt…
Original Water Colour Drawings
ALKEN Henry 1785-1851
18 Stunning water colours by Henry Alken In a superb green long grain morocco (by Riviere and Son), elaborate gilt & blind tooling, gilt titles, corners rubbed. Spine, gilt titles & tooling, raised bands, edges brushed. Internally, gilt…
The Beauties & Defects in the Figure of the Horse Comparatively Delineated in a series of Coloured Plates
ALKEN Henry 1785-1851
An exquisite Alken rarity [1816]. First edition. Quarto. Recent half calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments, with raised bands, black morocco label, all edges gilt; elaborate engraved title page, comprising an engraved roundel title, encompassed by…
[Six Landscapes]
ALKEN S [Samuel] 1756-1815
6 wonderful landscape scenes in aquatint In the original printers blue wrappers, oval publishers ticket to upper cover. Internally, six sepia tinted aquatints, no titles to the images, ruled borders, dated 1795, watermarked J Whatman. Housed…
Chepstow. Tintern Abbey. Llantony Abbey Abergavenny. [Artists Sketch Book]
BATTY Robert
Contemporary marbled boards, ms label, working metal clasp. Modern spine. Upper board MS label reads: 1807, 18 (his age). Chepstow, Tintern Abbey, Llantony Abbey, Abergavenny, 18th-26th July 1807. On the inner board he has written R. Batty began…
The Picture Printer of the Nineteenth Century George Baxter 1804-1867
BAXTER George & LEWIS CT Courtney
First edition in green cloth decorative gilt tooling & titles, oval colour picture onlay, corners bumped. Spine, gilt titles & tooling , edges bumped, a little wear along edges. Internally, half title, tissue guarded coloured frontis, [6],…
Four Picturesque Views in North Wales..
BROUGHTON Rev Brian 1767?-1839
Engraved in Aquatinta by Alken, from Drawings made on the spot. With Poetical reflections on leaving that country. In modern grey oblong cloth covers, with photocopied title to top cover and spine. Internally new endpapers, title page has a 7.5"…
Tivy Side, Cardigan, Wales 1881. (22 engravings)
CLARKE Henry
A suite of 22 engravings on copper, with all scenes identified, of Tivy Side, Cardigan and Neighborhood engraved by Henry Clarke MD, the Medical Officer of Wakefield Prison, a weekend photographer and serious amateur artist. Clarke spent his…
The Young Artist's Companion; or, Drawing-book of studies and landscape embellishments : comprising a great variety of the most picturesque objects required in the various compositions of landscape scenery, arranged as progressive lessons
COX David 1783-1859
64 Illustrations: aquatint and etching, some hand-coloured First edition in oblong, modern half red morocco over contemporary marbled boards, some blind tooling, gilt titles to red morocco label to upper board, edges rubbed. Spine, gilt tooling…
A treatise on landscape painting and effect in water colours: from the first rudiments to the finished picture: with examples in outline, effect, and colouring.
COX David 1783-1859
One of the best of the early drawing books VG, 1st ed, 2nd issue, in modern red half red morocco over marbled boards. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, title leaf, followed by 9-32 pp, 16 coloured aquatints, 16 uncoloured…
31 Original Watercolours
GILPIN William? 1724-1804
A very rare collection of 31 original watercolours, and ink note, by or possibly after William Gilpin In half calf, over worn marbled boards, new tips, some blind tooling, edges rubbed. Respined old invisibly laid down, decorative gilt tooling,…
Sketches in North Wales. WITH Ten Views in the Vicinity of Bristol (but Wales)
HARDING J.W. and FRANK W.A. [William Arnee]
Two separate and very scarce titles JW Harding, Sketches in North Wales, 1810, First and only edition in half green calf over green marbled boards, corners rubbed. Spine, raised bands, ink tooling, gilt titles to red calf label. Internally,…
The Camera; or, Art of Drawing in Water Colours: with instructions for sketching from nature : comprising the whole process of water-colored drawing : familiarly exemplified in drawing, shadowing, and tinting a complete landscape, in all its progressive states : and directions for compounding and using colours, sepia, indian ink, bister, & c
HASSELL J. [John] 1767-1825
THE PROCESS OF DRAWING IN WATER COLOURS EXPLAINED First edition, octavo, original boards with large printed paper label, neatly re-backed. Internally, folding frontis, [3], (iv) only, 5-32 pp. Folding 3 pls (all folding, 1 coloured aquatint,…