Ueber Pressfreiheit und deren Grenzen by Carl Friedrich Bahrdt - 1794: Ein Wort fur Regenten und Schriftsteller

Bulwer Lytton, E. Arasmanes or The Seeker. London, Maclaren an Co. nd Ca 1905. 12mo. Marbled paper design slipcase. Paper covers with title in black to front and spine, red letter device to front and printers black devise to verso. With armorial bookplate of Geoffrey Drew Wood on front pastedown. Illustrated frontis. pp66. Slip cases is age soiled, covers age toned where not protected by slipcase. All pages in fine condition, the frontis print, strong and bright with good plate indent. A scarce book.

Boydell, J. A View of Woolwich. Boydell. 1750. Engraving of boats on the River Thames near Woolwich. Sheet 370mm x 540mm, plate 260mm x 430mm. No12 from Boydells Collection of One Hundred Views in England and Wales. One small tear 12mm to blank margin, very light age tone to edges, otherwise in clean and bright condition with good strong print. Near fine.

Abergavenny Church. Original hand coloured aquatint etching. Drawn and Engraved by J Cullum. Ca 1840. Sheet and plate size 265mm x 205mm including blank border of 15mm and title Now known as St Marys this Priory was a Monastery of Benedictine or Black Monks, founded in the reign of Henry I between 1100 and 1135. Abergavenny Church is recorded in the poem The Worthiness of Wales written near the end of the 16th Century, by Thomas Churchyard who toured Wales in 1586. This poem, dedicated to Her Most Excellent Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, gives much information respecting the Church and the Monuments. The poem was first published in 1587 and reprinted in 1776. Extensive alterations took place in 1828 and Cathedral and Church architect Gilbert Scott was to comment in 1874 "Few Churches have suffered from decay and injudicious repair than this." Information regarding the alternations would suggest this aquatint was completed after the alternations, the leaded roof replaced by slates being the most… Read More

Thomas McLean, 1835. Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (120 x 165 mm), full margins. Printed by Thomas McLean. Light, small circular area of dampstaining at left sheet edge recto, well outside of image area. Second very small area of light dampstaining at extreme lower-center sheet edge, well outside of image area. Paper tape remnants from a former mount at top right, center, and left corners. With fresh colors. Ex-collection: The Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science, Fresno, CA.

1 leaf, verso blank. Sydm. Edwards del.; Pub. S. Curtis Walworth, July 1, 1801, Vol. 15. F. Sansom Sc. No 1472. A hand-colored engraving of Micranthus tubulosus (Burm.f.) N.E. Br., a member of the Iris family.

Bulwer Lytton, E. Arasmanes or The Seeker. London, Maclaren an Co. nd Ca 1905. 12mo. Marbled paper design slipcase. Paper covers with title in black to front and spine, red letter device to front and printers black devise to verso. With armorial bookplate of Geoffrey Drew Wood on front pastedown. Illustrated frontis. pp66. Slip cases is age soiled, covers age toned where not protected by slipcase. All pages in fine condition, the frontis print, strong and bright with good plate indent. A scarce book.

Boydell, J. A View of Woolwich. Boydell. 1750. Engraving of boats on the River Thames near Woolwich. Sheet 370mm x 540mm, plate 260mm x 430mm. No12 from Boydells Collection of One Hundred Views in England and Wales. One small tear 12mm to blank margin, very light age tone to edges, otherwise in clean and bright condition with good strong print. Near fine.

Abergavenny Church. Original hand coloured aquatint etching. Drawn and Engraved by J Cullum. Ca 1840. Sheet and plate size 265mm x 205mm including blank border of 15mm and title Now known as St Marys this Priory was a Monastery of Benedictine or Black Monks, founded in the reign of Henry I between 1100 and 1135. Abergavenny Church is recorded in the poem The Worthiness of Wales written near the end of the 16th Century, by Thomas Churchyard who toured Wales in 1586. This poem, dedicated to Her Most Excellent Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, gives much information respecting the Church and the Monuments. The poem was first published in 1587 and reprinted in 1776. Extensive alterations took place in 1828 and Cathedral and Church architect Gilbert Scott was to comment in 1874 "Few Churches have suffered from decay and injudicious repair than this." Information regarding the alternations would suggest this aquatint was completed after the alternations, the leaded roof replaced by slates being the most… Read More

Thomas McLean, 1835. Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (120 x 165 mm), full margins. Printed by Thomas McLean. Light, small circular area of dampstaining at left sheet edge recto, well outside of image area. Second very small area of light dampstaining at extreme lower-center sheet edge, well outside of image area. Paper tape remnants from a former mount at top right, center, and left corners. With fresh colors. Ex-collection: The Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science, Fresno, CA.

1 leaf, verso blank. Sydm. Edwards del.; Pub. S. Curtis Walworth, July 1, 1801, Vol. 15. F. Sansom Sc. No 1472. A hand-colored engraving of Micranthus tubulosus (Burm.f.) N.E. Br., a member of the Iris family.