Atkinson Clark Etc (3 results)
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Published by H.R. Young, London: 56, Paternosterr-Row, 1819
- Hardcover
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United KingdomMadoc Books (ABA-ILAB)
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. With 110 Splendid Hand Coloured Aquatint Plates 1819, Second edition of this splendidly illustrated work, [2], [1], 2-170 pp, [2] index, complete with 110 hand coloured aquatint plates, text and tissue-guarded plates generally quite clean, original colouring bright and vivid. WITH th…e Supplement of New South Wales. Large quarto, contemporary full straight-grain morocco re-backed, original elaborately gilt-decorated spine laid down, elaborately gilt-decorated covers, all edges gilt. (327*234 mm). (Abbey Travel 3. Tooley 225). Armorial bookplate & ink library number to fpd (Charles Tennant). Plates after S. Howitt and others depicting vivid scenes of hunting and other field sports in countries around the world. The author of the main part of the text was Captain Thomas Williamson, who also wrote the text for Oriental Field Sports (described as 'the most beautiful book on Indian sport in existence' (Schwerdt II: 297). This large work includes scenes of hunting African crocodiles, buffalo, elephants and rhinoceros, as well as North American bears, Siberian foxes, South American wild horses, German wolves, deer, etc. Also includes plates depicting whale hunting and an extraordinary series of plates of seal catching in Greenland, as well as 13 splendid plates of bull fighting. The supplement (157-170) on field sports of New South Wales (with nine plates) was written by John Heaviside Clark. First published in 1814. A beautiful copy. HOWITT. ATKINSON. CLARK. MANSKIRCH. etc (illustrator).
Published by Edward Orme. Printed by J. F. Dove, London, 1814
- First Edition
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB
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Full Calf. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 4to. 28 by 22 cm. Unpaginated. 110 hand-colored plates. 107 of these are aquatints, two are line engravings, and one, a stipple and line engraving. Second title page for the New South Wales section. Each plate accompanied by one to four pages of explanatory text -- most are one or…two pages long, though. The plates and the stories they tell are immensely varied in both the geographic location of the scenes and the type of hunting depicted. Not only are all continents represented, but also, such activities as whalehunting are included. Animals are shown in their own hunts, and even pursuing humans as well. One such plate, for instance, shows men desperately climbing a tree to escape a rhinoceros and as their horses panic. These plates were justly celebrated for their exciting drama and dynamism. A small sampling of other scenes: South American peons capturing bulls, then horses; Russians fishing in winter; Mamalukes wielding the sabre; sailors shooting wild deer; elephants in a pitfall; a Hindu elephant trap; shooting a leopard; wild boar shooting in Germany; hunting antelopes with a panther; taking vipers; seal catching in Greenland; and on and on. The New South Wales plates concern aborigines, and they show aborigines as warriors as well as hunting and fishing. Binding: contemporary diced Russia calf. Tooled in gilt. Edges marbled. Condition: rebacked, with original spine pasted on -- binding comes off as original throughout. Heavy rubbing along edges. Still attractive full calf. Tissue guards are heavily foxed. Some scattered light foxing and soiling on the text and plate leaves, but overall, these read as clean.
More imagesPublished by Edward Orme., London., 1813
- First Edition
Seller: Colophon Books (UK), Leek, STAFF, United KingdomColophon Books (UK)
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Disbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Here are the 10 aquatinted hand-coloured copper engraved plates issued as a supplement to "Foreign Field Sports" dated October 1st 1813 [but not sold until book was issued in 1814]. The plates are sold with the supplement letterpress pages describing the scenes and numbered pages 157-…170. Engraved by M Dubourg after paintings by J H Clark. Some light handling and the odd light brown age spot, one plate of"Warriors of New South Wales" has a repair to top corner at gutter, plate itself not affected and professional repair to the back, all plates still suitable for either framing or to rebind as a separate Australian section. Quarto size. 31 x 22.5 cm. *These were the first hand coloured engravings of the Australian natives to be published and are wholly Australian in composition and interest, and strangely with a benign feel to the scenes not found later in the 19th century. Scenes are: 'Smoking Out the Opossum' 'Hunting the Kangaroo' 'Throwing the Spear' + 'Climbing Trees' + 'Fishing No. 1" + 'Fishing No. 2" + 'The Dance' + 'Warriors of New S. Wales' + 'Trial' (Initiation Ceremony) + 'Repose' *Note: R. V. Tooley states there was this 1813 supplement that went with "Foreign Field Sports and there was also an 1819 reprint but that was sold by H. R. Young and not Edward Orme and a 3rd edition issued without dates to the plates. These have the early imprint as "Published and Sold October 1st 1813.
