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Very good copy of Richard Dagley's first foray into caricatureWith 26 comical illustrations from the life of a young wastrel in Regency England, most engraved by William Henry BrookesWith 2-page dedication, 3-page advertisement, 32-page essay Miscellaneous Observations on the Ludicrous in Art all by Dagley, and 4-page introduction in poetry and 180-page poem by Gaspey. According to the preface, it was the author of Flim-Flams! [Isaac D'Israeli], who encouraged Dagley to experiment with comedy. Later, "an ingenious friend" suggested he used the word "Taking" to stimulate further practice. The result is seen here in these commissioned illustrations for Thomas Gaspey's doggerel adventure.A young student, Tom Takeall, ignores his father's advice and sets off on a disastrous series of adventures. He is depicted riding dangerously, spending lavishly on clothes, losing bets on the horses, getting robbed in the theatre, boxing with a prizefighter, eloping with a young woman and then pistol-dueling with her… Read More

A good copy of the Dance of Death with lithographs after Jacques-Antony Chovin/Matthaus Merian. Complete with 42 lithographs reworked from Chovin/Merian with backgrounds removed, some reversed.The 42 subjects are: The Preacher's Word, Ossuary (Charnel House), Pope, Emperor, Empress, King, Queen, Cardinal, Bishop, Duke, Duchess, Earl, Abbot, Knight, Lawyer, Alderman, Canon, Doctor, Nobleman, Lady, Merchant, Abbess, Cripple, Hermit, Young Man, Usurer, Maiden, Minstrel, Herald, Judge, Headsman, Jester, Pedlar, Blind Man, Jew, Pagan, Paganess, Cook, Peasant, Painter, Painter's Wife, Adam and Eve.Unlike Holbein's skeleton of Death, the figure of Death here is a gruesome cadaver with rotten flesh still on the bone. In some images, the skin splits to reveal worms, intestines and other organs.The lithographs are copied from Matthaus Merian's originals first published in 1621 or Chovin's copies from 1744. Merian copied the wall paintings just after they had been restored by Emanuel Bock in 1614-1616. By the… Read More

Lovely suite of the ultra-rare Dance of Death etchings by the genius printmaker and painter Daniel ChodowieckiVery good copy of this meticulous early 20th-century German reprintNumber 856 of a limited edition of 1,000Complete with title-page with engraved vignette, 12 copperplates and 74 pages of text. Decorative front cover in gold and black designed by Ernst NicolasDaniel Chodowiecki's legendary Dance of Death sequence was never published in book form. Instead, the twelve figures only appeared in the Ravenberg Calendar, 1792.There are some unusual subjects along with the usual clerics and royalty. A fish wife killed by Death with a scythe, a prostitute whipped by a skeleton with a cat'o-nine-tails, a baby stolen by a winged skeleton while the mother sleeps, a swordsman losing a duel to a skeleton with a bone, a soldier on guard duty surprised by Death, etc.For this edition, Chodowiecki's engravings were reprinted on a hand press at Meisenbarth Riffarth engraving company in Berlin.Daniel Niklaus… Read More

Very good complete suite of 21 aquatint views of Paris in the years of the Bourbon Restoration.Lively collection of Parisian scenes showing the sights (parks, bridges, catacombs, morgue, swimming pool, etc.), the people (tradesmen, famous characters, itinerant merchants, street performers) and events (festivals, military rituals, religious processions). A good selection of post-Napoleonic costume too.First published in parts in oblong folio with the title A Tour of Paris in 1822, this is the first collected edition with letterpress and the title A Tour Through Paris. Plates dated 1822 and 1824.The illustrations are unsigned but accredited to the French artist Victor Auver. Four plates previously appeared in Richard Brinsley Peake's The characteristic costume of France, (1816): Itinerants on the Boulevards, Street Characters (as Water Carriers), The Catacombs and La Morgue.The plates depict: Distribution of wine on the morning of St. Louis; The voitures (coach-drivers) of Versailles; The blind man… Read More

First edition of this rare colour plate book in the medieval chivalric genre.With 24 handcoloured copperplates attributed to Thomas Rowlandson, and doggerel verse in the style of frequent collaborator William Combe. Probably inspired by the success of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe published in 1819 and the Regency craze for all things medieval Gothic.A ripping yarn with Sir Ethelbert romancing the fair Adelaide, despite the evil machinations of rival knight Gondibert. The plates depict knights in armour in combat at tournaments, sword-fighting duels, dastardly deeds, pageantry and courtly love.Condition: Both plates and text with spots of foxing, title page with closed tear, 2cm hole in text page 37, childish scribbling on rear of Plate 13, general signs of use throughout. Binding with gilt decoration on spine, red title label, five raised bands. some scuffing to edges. Printed for William Sams, bookseller to H.R.H. the Duke of York, 1 St James's-Street, 1823. His plate books such as A Tour Through Paris… Read More

Volume 1 of this 10-volume set on medieval costume, art and equipment.With 72 fine chromolithographs, many finished in gold, numbered 1-72 and 38 pages of explanation in German.Plates include religious subjects, suits of armour, tapestries, gravestones, portraits of knights and ladies, fine jewelry, etc. from the 5th to 12th centuries in Europe.Condition: Some scuffing to the marble boards and cloth spine, some foxing and discoloration to plates.Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.Heavy book - extra shipping charges apply.

Volume 4 of this 10-volume set on medieval costume, art and equipment.With 72 fine chromolithographs number 217-286 and 31 pages of explanation in German.Plates include suits of armour, tapestries, gravestones, portraits of knights and ladies, jewelry, combs, mirrors, tournaments, etc. from the 14th and 15th centuries in Europe.Condition: Some scuffing to the marble boards and cloth spine, but all chromolithographic plates clean and vivid, many handfinished in gold and silver.Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.Heavy book - extra shipping charges apply.

Volume 1 of the Supplement (Volume 10 of the series) of this 10-volume set on medieval costume, art and equipment.With 72 fine chromolithographs number 1-72 (649-720 of the series) and 28 pages of explanation in German.Plates include portraits, costumes, weapons, pistols, suits of armour, goblets, fascinators, musketeers, etc., from the 16th and 18th centuries in Europe.Condition: Top half of leather spine missing, but plates vivid and clean. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.Heavy book - extra shipping charges apply.