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,…
The Copper Plate Magazine, or Elegant Cabinet of Picturesque Prints consisting of Sublime and Interesting Views in Great Britain and Ireland
With 249 (of 250) Copper Plates, n.d. [1792-1802] Five volumes, oblong folio, in contemporary full maroon blind and gilt embossed, a little rubbed. Spines, decorative gilt tooling & titles, raised bands, edges rubbed. Calligraphic engraved…
Collection of Caernarvon Castle, Caernarvonshire & North Wales Views
Attractive Collection of North Wales plates In full 2 tone morocco, worn at corners & edges, gilt title to upper board. Spine, raised bands, blind tooling, gilt titles, edges worn. Internally, 40 leaves, featuring 55 plates, various sizes, mostly…
The Melange of Humour;
[ALKEN Henry Thomas] 1784-1851. [EGERTON Daniel Thomas] 1800?-1847
First collected edition of this acclaimed series of humorous situations with Fifty Hand Coloured Plates Caricaturing the English Lifestyle of the 1820s. c1835, Folio, letterpress title and fifty hand coloured plates (including frontispiece). Most…
A Few Ideas; Being Hints on Hunting and Driving and other sports; caught in Leicestershire, &c.
[ALKEN Henry] 1784-1851
ONE OF THE RAREST COLOUR PLATE SPORTING BOOKS c1830. First edition, early issue, with some plates watermarked 1828 and 1829, folio, letterpress title, and forty two hand coloured etched plates, some heightened with gum arabic. In contemporary…
Britannia [Grangerised North Wales section]
[CAMDEN William] 1551-1623. GOUGH Richard 1735-1809 ed. & tr. NICHOLS John 1745-1826 editor.
A superb, grangerised copy of the North Wales section of Camden's Britannia Volume 3 only (of 4), [1806], near Fine, in modern green morocco over green marbled boards (by Delrue 1982), spine with raised bands, gilt title to black cal label.…
Knight's Cyclopaedia of Ornaments Designed for the use of Architects, Builders, Silversmiths, Chasers, Modellers, Jewellers, Die Sinkers, Engravers, Founders, Carvers, and all Ornamental Manufacturers.
[KNIGHT Frederick]
Complete, in green bevelled cloth, blind edge tooling & gilt titles. Re-spined old laid down, new printed green paper title. Internally, engraved title followed by 123 leaves of illustrations, some with 2 illustrations per leaf, some light water…
Picturesque Views in Devonshire, Cornwall, &c.
[PAYNE William]
G, 1st ed, 1826, 16 colour plates. In modern dark red half morocco, over the original worn boards, gilt tooling, original gilt title to gilt tooled black calf label. Internally, frontis, [4], 16 hand coloured aquatint plates with grey wash…
Temple of Flora. or Garden of the Botanist, Poet, Painter and Philosopher,
[THORNTON Robert John] 1768?-1837.
The Most Spectacular Botanical Print Book of its Era. First quarto edition, large quarto, [45] leaves, engraved title on two leaves, hand coloured allegorical aquatint frontispieces, two uncoloured engraved plates (the first by Maddocks after…
Thirty Plates Illustrative of Natural Phenomena, ETC. With A Short Description Annexed To each Plate.
[WHIMPER J.W. or WHYMPER Josiah Wood) 1813-1903
[1846]. First edition, in the publishers marked, embossed brown cloth, gilt titles. corners bumped. Carefully respined, printed paper titles. Internally, not paginated, but title leaf followed by 30 leaves of Phenomena's, depicted in numbered &…
Cambria Depicta: BOUND With Illustrations of the Natural Scenery of the Snowdonian Mountains [grangerised]
A Native Artist [PUGH E.]; WITH JONES Harry Longueville 1806-1870
Depicta with hand coloured plates and with many Extra Illustrations Two volumes bound as One, first edition (both), large paper copy, quarto. Xvi, 476 pp. 71 hand coloured aquatint plates and extra illustrated with a double page hand coloured…
A Touch of the Fine Arts: Illustrated by Twelve Plates, With Descriptions,
ALKEN Henry [Thomas] 1784-1851
Alken's Amusing Satire of Artists. (3 leaves - half title, title and preface), (12 leaves descriptive text), (1 leaf adverts), printed on recto's only, with twelve hand-coloured plates. Original dull gray boards, front cover with pink printed paper…
Involuntary Thoughts
ALKEN Henry [Thomas] 1784-1851
First edition (first issue?), oblong quarto, letterpress title page and six hand coloured soft ground etchings by Alken depicting 18 thoughts, quarter red morocco over marbled boards, burgundy gilt morocco cover label. The plates have been sized to…
Sporting Scrap Book, Containing fifty Plates, Designed and Engraved by Himself
ALKEN Henry [Thomas] 1785-1851
50 hand coloured plates in the original boards. First edition, 1824, in contemporary red half calf over the publishers printed maroon boards, corners worn. Skilfully re-spined, old laid down, gilt titles. Internally, frontis, title leaf,…
Tutor's Assistant, Containing A Variety of Amusing Scenes
ALKEN Henry 1785-1851
Six Humorous Hand-Coloured Engraved Plates by Alken, illustrative of the declension of verbs and other grammatical parts of speech. First edition, cover title, large oblong folio, six hand coloured engraved plates containing twenty six amusing…