RURAL COSTUME SCENES) (possibly Swiss)
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Blockley, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: N P, 1830 approx). Softcover. Very Good. Hand colored lithographs (12) on tinted background . Oblong narrow quarto (32x20cm) cloth spined paper boards (tips worn) Twelve leaves. First plate shows some foxing others clean. No titlepage (as issued?) all plates stubbed some closed gutter tears. *Subjects: Father carving a wooden sword for 2 boys while young woman watches; Travelling showman selling vial of medicine while clown with drum waits to perform to crowd of ladies and children with horse and carts in front of curtained "stage"; Travelling salesman offering statues to grandmother (seated) and young woman and man with toddler & sister all in forecourt of farm with ducks, dogs, chickens etc; Hawker with wares on a board on his head is bitten by dog and his wares fall off as the board tips (among wares are dolls, parrot, and a Napoleon figurine); Man in doorway of house laughs, also lady peeling apples with toddler reaching for carrots on table and boy with stick; Dancing girl and man with sword while women hang out clothes sit by laundry cart with dog and wash board by stream in the foreground; Coming out of church 2 ladies kiss in greeting with 2 men talking, boys on fence, youngster led by grandmother & many other people in Sunday best; Group of young people playing a dare you game of jumping over a fire, one girl has fallen down, another has been caught by her partner, dog & 5 others watch a boy jump; Guide has taken 2 ladies up a mountain to look at a waterfall, one crawls right up to the edge while the other is pulling her back, all 3 have early mountaineering poles with girp-hooks; Group of children fruit picking young man on pony with lady mounted behind crossing a stream with dog; Grape harvesters take a break while one dances to the tambourines & procession with garlands. Very lively scenes.
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- Bookseller
- Abbey Antiquarian Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- V58069
- Title
- RURAL COSTUME SCENES) (possibly Swiss)
- Illustrator
- Hand colored lithographs (12) on tinted background
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- N P
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1830 approx)
- Keywords
- hand colored plates
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian;
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About the Seller
Abbey Antiquarian Books
Biblio member since 2005
Blockley, Gloucestershire
About Abbey Antiquarian Books
We are antiquarian booksellers established in Gloucestershire, England for over twenty years. We have general stock and specialise in early illustrated and children's books and pop-ups. We are members of PBFA.
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- Leaves
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- Quarto
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- Gutter
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- Cloth
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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