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Anecdotes of Eminent Painters in Spain, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; with cursory remarks upon the present state of arts in that kingdom. By Richard Cumberland. In two volumes. Vol. I [-II]. London, J. Walter, 1782.
First Edition. Two volumes, 12mo (156 x 95 mm), pp. [iv], 225, [1], [2] index; [iv], 224, [1] index, [1], in contemporary tree calf, spines ruled in compartments and numbered in gilt, red morocco labels lettered in gilt.
ESTC t116936.
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Ideas for Rustic Furniture; proper for Garden Seats, Summer Houses, Hermitages, Cottages, &c. on 25 plates. London, I. & J. Taylor, the Architectural Library, circa 1800.
First Edition. 8vo, (235 x 145 mm), 25 engraved plates including the title, some staining, particularly to the title-page, in slightly later marbled wrappers, binding sprung and partly broken, possibly the result of an early and not very successful restoration project, consequently several of the plates are loose, yellow edges.
ESTC t146494, at BL, RIBA, The National Trust, V & A and Massachusetts Institute of Technology only; the Met also has a copy.
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Memoirs of Maria, Countess d'Alva:
being neither Novel nor Romance, but appertaining to both. Interspersed with Historic Facts & Comic Incidents; in the Course of which are introduced, Fragments & Circumstances, not altogether inapplicable to the events of this Distracted Age, and to the Measures of the Fore-sighted Defenders of Our Holy Faith. In Two Volumes. By Priscilla Parlante. Vol. I [-II].
1808.
First edition. 2 vols, 8vo (228 x 135 mm), I: pp. [xvi], 384; II: [iv], 494, [ii], last leaf blank, engraved frontispiece to each volume designed by the author and a third plate bound facing p. 268 of vol. I, uncut throughout, some offsetting from plates, small paper flaw to lower blank margin of one leaf, edges dusty, slight browning, occasional minor spotting, in the original drab boards, white paper spine, printed paper labels on spines, the label to Vol. II chipped with loss of one letter of title, spines a little dusty, with the contemporary ownership inscription of M. Meath on the first page of text in each volume.
Garside, Raven & Schöwerling 1808:36; Summers p. 410; not in Block.
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OIKIDIA,
or, Nutshells: being Ichnographic Distributions for Small Villas; chiefly upon oeconomical principles. In seven classes. With occasional remarks. By Jose Mac Packe, a Bricklayer’s Labourer. Part the first, containing Twelve Designs.
London, for the Author, 1785.
First Edition. 8vo, (212 x 121mm), two engraved frontispieces and pp. [iv], 89, with numerous tables in the text and twenty-five engraved plates, each facing its description, the text proper being in the appendix, beginning at p. 51, plate xviii misnumbered xvii, in contemporary calf, red morocco label on spine lettered in gilt, spine ruled in gilt, foot of spine chipped, joints cracking and in need of some attention, but generally an attractive copy, with the early ownership inscription of James McDouall of Lagan.
Eileen Harris, British Architectural Books and Writers 1556–1785, 694; Berlin Katalog 2295.
ESTC t42147.
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Parentalia:
or, Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens; viz. of Mathew Bishop of Ely, Christopher Dean of Windsor, &c. But chiefly of Sir Christopher Wren, late Surveyor-General of the Royal Buildings, President of the Royal Society, &c. &c. In which is contained, besides his Works, a great Number of Original Papers and Records; on Religion, Politicks, Anatomy, Mathematics, Architecture, Antiquities; and most Branches of Polite Literature. Compiled by his Son Christopher; Now published by his Grandson, Stephen Wren, Esq; With the Care of Joseph Ames, F.R.S. and Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries, London.
London, T. Osborn, 1750.
First Edition. Folio, (305 x 212mm), mezzotint frontispiece portrait of Christopher Wren (the son, compiler of Parentalia) by John Faber and pp. [ii], xii, ii, [iv], 120, 125-159, [1], 181-368, [3] index, [1] directions to the bookbinder, title-page printed in red and black, three further engraved portraits and eight engraved plates, final plate slightly cropped at the foot, three half page engravings and a final engraved tail-piece, marginal wormholing in the first couple of leaves, in contemporary calf, rather worn, plain spine simply ruled in compartments, brown morocco label lettered in gilt, covers and extremities scuffed, joints cracking, head of spine and upper joints badly chipped, with the contemporary Dacre bookplate and later ‘GBS’ bookplate, early manuscript shelf mark and scribbles.
Harris 949.
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Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera. Vol. I [-II]. London, John Pine, 1733.
First Edition, second state of vol. II p. 108 with the inscription on the medal of Augustus Caesar in the corrected state of ‘potest’. Two volumes, 8vo, (221 x 130 mm), pp. [xxxii], 176, [2], [177]-264, [2], first end final pages blank; [xxiv], 48, [2], [49]-94, [2], [95]-152, [2], [153]-172, [2], [173]-191, [1] blank, [13] explanation of the plates, printed entirely from engraved plates, some light foxing and offsetting, in contemporary crimson morocco, triple gilt filet borders to covers, gilt spines with raised bands and contrasting brown morocco labels, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, some slight wear to the bindings with a little bit of surface abrasion and staining.
See Gordon Norton Ray, The illustrator and the book in England from 1790 to 1914 (1976); Daniel Berkeley Updike, Printing types, their history, forms and use (3rd edition, 1962).
ESTC t46226; Brunet III, 320; Cohen-de Ricci 498.
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Studien für geübtene Anfänger. Ein Duzend neüe abwechselnde Gegenden in Winterthur. Winterthur, 1782.
First Edition, Privately Distributed. 4to, (235 x 175 mm), engraved pictorial title page and 11 further numbered engraved plates, (plate marks between 157 and 151 x 112), the first plate with two landscape engravings one above the other, all the others single portrait landscapes, in contemporary olive green boards, worn at extremities, spine chipped.
Lonchamp, Manuel du bibliophile suisse 2633; Rümann, Die illustrierten deutschen Bücher des 18. Jahrhunderts 1016.
No copies traced in America.
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[The Four Elements.] Earth. Wind. Fire. Water. Northern Italy, 1787.
Four sheets, (362 x 260 mm), stipple-engraved prints, platemarks measuring 246 x 177 mm, the images presented in elegant slim ovals (198 x 98 mm), double ruled, each plate bearing an English title of one of the elements and signed ‘W. Hamilton delinet’ and ‘Giuseppe dall’ Acqua di Cristoforo scul. 1787’, the first print (Earth) also with ‘no. 343’, two pin-holes at the top of each sheet, with very light creasing and soiling but generally a very fresh, clean set with generous margins.
We have traced only one copy of these prints, a coloured and framed set appearing at auction in Rome, 28 October 2014. In addition to the V&A album cited above, the Huntington Library has another sketchbook of drawings by Hamilton.
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The Rudiments of Ancient Architecture, in two parts. Containing an Historical Account of the Five Orders, with their Proportions and Examples of each from the Antiques; also Vitruvius on the Temples and Intercolumniations, &c. of the Ancients. Calculated for the Use of those who wish to attain a summary Knowledge of the Science of Architecture. With a Dictionary of Terms. Illustrated with Ten Plates. London, Taylor, 1789.
First Edition. 8vo, (250 x 152 mm), engraved frontispiece (detached) and pp. [iv], vii, [i], 84, engraved portrait by Basire on the title-page, with nine further plates bound after the text, uncut throughout in the original paper-backed marbled boards, spine chipped and largely missing, boards dust-soiled, some spotting in the text but generally good and clean.
ESTC t46905, listing BL, Cambridge, Oxford; Columbia, Getty, Johns Hopkins, Bancroft, Delaware and Nebraska-Lincoln.
Avery 882.
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Traité théorique et pratique sur l’art de faire et d’appliquer les vernis; sur les différens genres de peinture par impression et en décoration, ainsi que sur les couleurs simples et composées: accompagné de nouvelles observations sur le copal; de notes historiques sur la nature des matières et sur les procédés mis en usage par les compositeurs des couleurs et de vernis, et par les peintres vernisseurs et décorateurs, &c. &c. &c. An XI. (1803).
First Edition, Fine Paper Copy. Two volumes, 8vo, (198 x 124 mm), pp. [iv], xlviii, 326, [1] errata, [1] blank; [iv], 351, [1] errata, woodcut device on each title, with five etched plates (four folding) in vol. 1 and a folding printed table in vol. 2, printed on thick, blue tinted paper, in contemporary mottled calf, flat spines attractively gilt in compartments, with orange and black lettering pieces, a circular numbering piece in contrasting orange on the black label, lettered and numbered in gilt, with red sprinkled carmine edges, liberally applied leading to the partial closure of a couple of pages, a little rubbed at extremities but a handsome set, with the bookplate of the Bibliothèque de Mr. de Barante on the pastedowns.
Neville II, p. 558.
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