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Philadelphia [&] Pittsburgh: James Kay, Jun. and Brother; C.H. Kay & Co.,, 1829. A Compendium of Practical Knowledge MACKENZIE, Colin. Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts in all the Useful and Domestic Arts: Constituting A Complete Practical Library relative to [and including] Agriculture, Bees, Calico printing, Carving at table, Cements, Confectionary, Cookery, Crayons, Dairy, Diseases, Distilation, Dying, Enamelling, Engraving, Farriery, Food, Gardening, Gilding, Glass, Health, Inks, &c, Jewellers pastes, Lithography, Medicines, Metallergy, Oil colours, Oils, Painting, Pastry, Perfumery, Pickling, Pottery, Preserving, Scouring, Silk, Silk worms, Silvering, Tanning, Trees of all kinds, Varnishing, Water colours, Wines, &c, &c, &c. A new American from the latest London Edition. With numerous and important additions generally; and the medical part carefully revised and adapted to the climate of the U. States; and also a new and most copious index by an American Physician. Philadelphia: James Kay,…
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Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts in all the Useful and Domestic Arts
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Manteau d'Arlequin, Le
by GAVARNI, Paul [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier]
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Paris: Imp. Lemercier, 57 R. de Seine, 1852. The Harlequin Coat Twelve Lithographed Plates by Gavarni GAVARNI, Paul [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier]. Le Manteau d'Arlequin par Gavarni. Paris: Imp. Lemercier, n.d., 1852]. Large folio (14 9/16 x 10 1/2 inches; 370 x 267 mm.). Twelve lithographed plates. Title from front cover. Publisher's dark blue pebble-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and front cover lettered in gilt. Expertly and almost invisibly rebacked with the original spine laid down. Yellow coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Minimal marginal foxing to a few plates, otherwise a very fine copy. Scarce; no copies recorded by OCLC and no copies seen at auction since at least 1975. The plates are captioned: 1. "...oui mon chair Auguste Ge suis décidé arestée dan les queur tant que mon poliçon de direqueteur aura çelui demi laissée..." 2. "...alors, si vous permettez, j'aurai l'honneur de vous envoyer ma voiture à onze heures...Ça me botte." 3. "...Ah!,…
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Mark Twain's A Dog's Tale
by TWAIN, Mark; UNDERHILL, Irving S.
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Metuchen, New Jersey: Printed for the Editor, 1931. [TWAIN, Mark]. UNDERHILL, Irving. Mark Twain's A Dog's Tale. Printed for the Editor of The American Book Collector, 1931. First edition, limited to seventy-one numbered copies, this being copy 32. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/8 in; 206 x 130 mm). 19, [1, blank] pp. Publisher's original printed string bound wrappers. A fine copy. BAL Sec. II, p. 253, col. 1.
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by DE VOE, Thomas
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New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867. A comprehensive guide to the Public Markets of Major Cities, including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn DE VOE, Thomas. The Market Assistant, Containing a brief description of every article of human food sold in the public markets of the Cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn; including the various domestic and wild animals, poultry, game, fish, vegetables, fruits, &c., &c. With many curious incidents and anecdotes... New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867. First edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches; 192 x 124 mm.). Engraved frontispiece with tissue-guard, [2, title, imprint], [5]-455, [1, blank], [15, advertisement], [1, blank] pp. Several illustrations within the text. The frontispiece is an engraving of the author's shop, showing a butcher incongruously attired in a tall dress hat and butcher's apron, cutting a rib of beef. Publishers brown cloth, covers decoratively bordered in blind, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, yellow coated…
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Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field..
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Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1811. Day set on Norham's castled steep. And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep... " Bound by Taylor & Hessey and with a Fine Fore-Edge Painting by the "Double-Line Painter" [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. [TAYLOR & HESSEY, binder]. [DOUBLE-LINE PAINTER, artist]. SCOTT, Sir Walter. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field... The eighth edition. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1811. With a very fine early twentieth century fore-edge painting by the "Double-Line Painter" showing a view of Norham Castle in Northumberland depicting the opening lines of the poem. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 210 x 133 mm.). [viii], [1]-377, [1, blank], [i]-cxxviii pp. Additional engraved vignette title-page and nine engraved plates. The title-page and plates with old water stain at top left corner, some occasional and light spotting, otherwise near fine. Handsomely bound ca. 1811 by Taylor and Hessey, Booksellers, London. Stamp-signed in gilt on the fore-edge of the front board…
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Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies; from 1799 to 1815, The
by JENKINS, James; HEATH, William, artist
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London: Printed for Js. Jenkins... by L. Harrison & J.C. Leigh, [1814-15]. An Amazing Large-Paper Copy with the Majority of the Plates in Three States [JENKINS, James]. [HEATH, William, artist]. The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies; From 1799 to 1815. London: Printed for Js. Jenkins... by L. Harrison & J.C. Leigh, [1814-1815]. First Edition, Large Paper Copy with the majority of the plates in three states. Large quarto (13 1/8 x 11 inches; 335 x 277 mm.). Engraved (uncolored) vignette title-page (verso blank); engraved dedication leaf to the Duke of Wellington in two states, uncolored and colored; dedication to Duke of Wellington 2 pp., Description of vignette title (verso blank), Introduction 4 pp., Contents (list of plates) 2 pp., 60 unnumbered leaves of text, List of subscribers 4 pp. Extra 'colored' copy of plate 35 "Siege of St. Sebastian" used as an additional frontispiece and fifty-two hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece (described as vignette title),…
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Masque of Comus, The
by DULAC, Edmund, illustrator; [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB]; MILTON, John
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New York: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club at the University Press, Cambridge, 1954. John Milton's "Masque of Comus"— the Last Book Illustrated by Edmund Dulac [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB, The]. [DULAC, Edmund, Illustrator] MILTON, John. The Masque of Comus. The Poem by John Milton, with a Preface by Mark Van Doren & The Airs by Henry Lawes, with a Preface by Hubert Foss. Illustrated with Water-Colors by Edmund Dulac. [New York]: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club at the University Press, Cambridge, 1954. Limited to 1,500 numbered copies (this copy being No. 715). Quarto (10 3/8 x 7 7/16 inches; 263 x 189 mm.). [8], 57, [2], [1, blank], [12, music], [1, blank], [1, colophon] pp. Six color plates, including frontispiece. Original quarter parchment over marbled boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. A near fine copy. In the original black cardboard slipcase with spine lettered in gilt. "By November 1951, Dulac no longer had working arrangements with…
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Masters, The
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Birmingham [Alabama]: Oxmoor House, Inc., 1976. With Four Presentation Photographs - Two Signed by Arnold Palmer & Two Signed by Jack Nicklaus [GOLF]. PALMER, Arnold. NICKLAUS, Jack. BISHER, James Furman. The Masters. Augusta Revisited. An Intimate View by Furman Bisher. Birmingham [Alabama]: Oxmoor House, Inc., [1976]. First edition. Large quarto (11 x 9 1/2 inches; 280 x 241 mm.).[vi], 186 pp. Illustrated in color & black & white throughout. Publisher's green cloth over boards, front cover titled in blind, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers. A fine copy in a near fine pictorial dust jacket. Loosely inserted are four signed black & white photographs: two of Arnold Palmer (same photo), and two of Jack Nicklaus - each one inscribed to Paul [Sherlock]. Paul Sherlock V.P. Hospitality and Lodging at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club & Lodge. Also a copy of Time Magazine January 10, 1949 featuring Ben Hogan (1912-1997). James Furman Bisher (1918-2012) was a newspaper sports writer and…
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Mau-Mau on Paisley
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: , 1990. A Stunning Original Watercolor "Mau-Mau on Paisley" IVORY, Lesley Anne, artist. "Mau-Mau on Paisley". [n.p., n.d., ca. 1990]. Original pen, ink and watercolor, signed and inscribed with title on reverse. Image size: 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches; 115 x 115 mm. Beautifully matted, framed and glazed. (Frame size: 11 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches; 299 x 299 mm.). A gorgeous illustration of "Mau-Mau", a grey cat, with a stunning paisley background. Beautifully framed with a cream quilted mat and metallic gold and white decorative ribbon border. Lesley Anne Ivory has gained her reputation as the world's most popular painter of cats by sustaining a superlative level of invention and craftsmanship. She studied at the art schools of St Albans, Watford and Luton, and, having gained the National Diploma in Design, taught at a school in Bedfordshire. Over a decade, she exhibited wood-engravings of wildlife at the Royal Academy, while creating an increasing demand for her card designs. Now married to the artist…
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Medley of Characters, A.
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London: William Holland, 1797. A Medley of Characters A Wonderful 'Frieze' by John [Colley] Nixon NIXON, John [Colley] A Medley of Characters. Drawn by J. Nixon, engraved by Ziegler. London: William Holland, [31, January 1797]. Oblong quarto (28 1/2 x 10 7/8 inches; 276 x 723 mm.). Large landscape hand-colored aquatint engraving on four sheets. Total size 10 3/4 x 114 inches; 277 x 2892 mm. Four numbered sheets, all with "Drawn by J. Nixon Esq.r' / A Medley of Characters / Engraved by Ziegler / London Pub. by Willm. Holland Cockspur Street". Small closed tear to blank margin of first plate not affecting image; neatly repaired 3 1/8 inch tear to lower right hand edge just touching image, otherwise an excellent complete suite of this exceptionally rare panorama showing John Nixon's gentle satire. Chemised in a quarter black morocco clamshell case (measuring 12 x 30 inches; 305 x 762 mm.), spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments. This panorama works as a kind of…
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Melange of Humour, The
by ALKEN, Henry; EGERTON, Daniel Thomas
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London: Printed by W. Lewis, 1835. Fifty Hand-Colored Plates Caricaturing the English Lifestyle of the 1820s [EGERTON, Daniel Thomas, and others]. The Melange of Humour; A Series of Fifty Coloured Engravings, Comprising a Great Variety of Comic Subjects, by The most Popular Artists of the Present Day. London: Printed by W. Lewis, [n.d., 1835]. First collected edition of this acclaimed series of humorous plates depicting the English and French lifestyle of the 1820s. Folio (14 1/16 x 10 1/4 inches; 358 x 260 mm.). Letterpress title and fifty hand-colored etched plates (including frontispiece). Most plates with tissue guards. Plates watermarked 1835, 1821, and 1822. Contemporary half maroon roan, ruled in gilt, over gray pebble-grain cloth boards. Spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt with three wide raised bands. All edges gilt. With the engraved book-plate of John M. Schiff on front paste-down. Early ink signature of Wm. Morrison dated 1840 on front free endpaper. Top and bottom of…
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Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire
by ALKEN, Henry, illustrator -- [APPERLEY, Charles James]; NIMROD; APPERLEY, C.J.
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London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837. A Most Valuable and Important Book" Second and Enlarged Edition With Additional Text and Six Extra Hand-Colored Plates [ALKEN, Henry, illustrator]. NIMROD (pseud. of C.J. Apperley). Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire, Formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, High sheriff for the Counties of Salup & Merioneth, and Major of the North Stropshire Yeomanry Cavalry. With Notices of His Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits By Nimrod. With Numerous Illustrations by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837. Second and enlarged edition, with additions to the text, six extra hand-colored plates and with three new plates replacing three from the first edition. Octavo (9 1/2 x 5 3/4 in; 241 x 146 mm). ix, [3], 206, [1, printer's slug], [1] pp. Additional engraved title in aquatint and eighteen hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece, with tissue guards. Publisher's original pictorially…
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Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq
by ALKEN, Henry, illustrator -- [APPERLEY, Charles James] NIMROD; APPERLEY, C.J.
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London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1851. A Desirable Item" "A Most Valuable and Important Book" Third and Best Edition With Memoir of Nimrod [ALKEN, Henry, illustrator]. APPERLEY, C.J. Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire, Formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, High sheriff for the Counties of Salup & Merioneth, and Major of the North Stropshire Yeomanry Cavalry. With Notices of His Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits By Nimrod. With Numerous Illustrations by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins. Third Edition, With a Brief Memoir of Nimrod by the Author of "Handley Cross" [i.e. Robert S. Surtees]. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1851. Third edition, the first to contain the Memoir of Nimrod by Surtees and complete with the additional text and plates from the second edition of 1837, third issue (with extra title, title, and plates dated 1851) in 1850 issue binding (with "Ackermann" at spine foot). Octavo (9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in; 235 x 146 mm). ix, [1], 218, [8,…
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London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837. Alken Off To The Races With Apperley In The Saddle Second Edition With the Six Extra Plates in a Fine Contemporary Binding [ALKEN, Henry, illustrator]. NIMROD (pseud. of C.J. Apperley). Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire. Formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, High sheriff for the Counties of Salup & Merioneth, and Major of the North Stropshire Yeomanry Cavalry. With Notices of His Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits By Nimrod. With Numerous Illustrations by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins. Second Edition. Reprinted with considerable Additions from the New Sporting Magazine. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837. Second and enlarged edition, with additions to the text and six extra hand-colored plates. Tall octavo. ix, [3], 206, [2], pp. Extra-engraved title-page with aquatint vignette. Eighteen hand-colored aquatint plates with tissue guards. Bound in contemporary full hard-grain crimson morocco featuring a…
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[Memoirs of Count Grammont.]
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London: John White, 1808. A Rare Series of Plates depicting the Characters of Seventeenth Century England and France [HAMILTON, Anthony]. [Memoirs of Count Grammont.] A series of thirty-nine stipple plates printed in colors. [London: John White, 1808]. Quarto (11 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches; 299 x 216 mm.). A rare set of thirty-nine color printed stipple plates to the "Memoirs of Count Grammont" edition of 1808, each plate bearing the date 1 July 1808 and the address of John White. Added are six colored plates: Elenor Gwynn (no. 1 on list); Somer Hill (no. 8 on list); Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland (no. 13 on list); [Nell Gwynn] (no. 18 on list); Elizabeth, Countess of Chesterfield (no. 43 on list), and Susan, Lady Bellasys (no. 45 on list). Original boards uncut, expertly rebacked in black calf. Engraved bookplate of Clarence S. Bement (1843-1923) & oval black leather bookplate of Joseph Widener (1871-1943) on front paste-down. Housed in a full crimson levant morocco slipcase, spine with five raised bands…
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Microcosm of London; or, London in Miniature, The
by ACKERMANN, Rudolph; COMBE, William; PUGIN, Augustus; ROWLANDSON, Thomas
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London: R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1808. With Eight of Abbey's Twelve Key Plates in Their First "Luminous" State A Wonderful Example Bound in Early Twentieth Century Three-Quarter Red Straight-Grain Morocco [ACKERMANN, R[udolph]. The Microcosm of London; or, London in Miniature]. London: R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, [1808-1810]. First edition, early issue, bound from the original parts, with eight of Abbey's twelve key plates in their first state. Text watermarked J. Whatman 1806 & 1807 and also L & D 1807; plates watermarked J. Whatman 1806, 1807, 1808 & 1809. "Contents" leaf in volume one in first state. With all of the errata uncorrected, except for that reading "coustom" for "custom" on p. 218 of Volume I (see Abbey, Scenery, p. 138). Complete with the half-titles, woodcut titles and engraved dedication leaves in each volume. Three large quarto volumes (12 5/8 x 10 1/2 inches; 321 x 267 mm.). [1, pictorial woodcut title], [1, blank], [1, dedication], [1, blank], iv,…
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Midsummer-Night's Dream, A.
by RACKHAM, Arthur; SHAKESPEARE, William
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New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1939. The Final Book Published During Rackham's Lifetime [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. SHAKESPEARE, William. A Midsummer-Night's Dream. The Text of the First Folio, with Quarto Insertions, Edited and Amended Where Obscure by Herbert Farjeon. Illustrated from Water-colors by Arthur Rackham. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1939. Deluxe edition limited to 1,950 copies of which this is no. 1306. Folio (12 7/8 x 8 3/4 inches; 328 x 223 mm.). Six color lithographed plates. With LEC Subscriber's Letter for this volume laid-in at front. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Publishers quarter tan buckram over decorative paper boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A near fine copy. "The illustrations for this play were made by one of the world's most famous illustrators, that Englishman Mr. Arthur Rackham. He has been for years one of the most prolific of the world's illustrators, and one of the most admired. He is now seventy-two years old, having being born in…
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Military Discoveries
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London: S & J Fuller, 1819. Scarce Misery in the Army [ALKEN, Henry] TALLY-HO, Ben. Military Discoveries or, The Miseries of campaigning in a series of seven plates being Hints to Young Officers. London: S & J Fuller, March 24, 1819. Oblong quarto (10 1/8 x 14 in; 257 x 355 mm). Seven uncolored aquatint plates loose in modern cloth portfolio with gilt-lettered black title label and silk ribbon tie. Without titlepage as issued. OCLC/KVK record only three copies in institutional holdings worldwide, at University of London, Brown University, and University of Michigan. The last copy to come to auction was fifty-three years ago, in 1961. The Plates: 1. In tasting the joys of bivouac you DISCOVER that in many parts of the Service the elegance of costume are not so much attended to. 2. On getting into a love affair, you DISCOVER that the numerous parts of the family assisted by some professional gentlemen are determined to revenge the supposed injury... 3. Having been but little time on board the…
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Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome, The
by ROWLANDSON, Thomas; ROBERTS, Lt. Col. David
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London: Printed for Patrick Martin, 1815. Fifteen Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates Drawn and Etched by Thomas Rowlandson [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator]. [ROBERTS, Lt. Col. David, author]. The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome. With an Account of His Campaigns on the Peninsula and in Pall Mall: With Sketches by Rowlandson; and Notes. By and Officer. London: Printed for Patrick Martin, 1815. First edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches; 210 x 130 mm). [4], 188 pp. Fifteen hand-colored aquatint plates drawn and etched by Rowlandson, including frontispiece. Handsomely bound ca. 1900 by Rivière and Son in full dark red crushed levant morocco, covers with triple gilt-rule borders, spine with five raised bands, elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt-ruled board edges, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Small neat and almost invisible repair to lower blank margin of title-page, some very minor offsetting from plates to text otherwise a…
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London: Printed for Patrick Martin, 1816. Fifteen Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates Drawn and Etched by Thomas Rowlandson [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator]. [ROBERTS, Lt. Col. David, author]. The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome, with an Account of His Campaigns on the Peninsula, and in Pall Mall: With Sketches, by Rowlandson, and Notes. By and Officer. Second Edition. London: Printed for Patrick Martin, 1816. Second edition. Octavo (8 9/16 x 5 3/8 inches; 218 x 137 mm). [4], 188 pp. Fifteen hand-colored aquatint plates drawn and etched by Rowlandson, including frontispiece. Lower margin of pp. 65/66 replaced just affecting one letter on verso. Small hole (1/8 inch) on pp. 111/112 just affecting one letter. Some minor offsetting from plates to text and some scattered light foxing to text. Bound ca. 1930 in full dark red crushed levant morocco, covers with triple gilt-rule borders, spine with two raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt-decorated board edge…
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