Bartolozzi Tomkins (5 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. F. Bartolozzi; L. Schiavonetti; P. W. Tomkins; G. Vendramini; et al. (illustrator). First edition. A collection of colour plates, depicting stipple-engravings and mezzotint-engravings of famous works by Angelica Kauffman, Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Romney and more. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding.Previous owner's ink inscription to the front free end paper.Illustrated with forty tipped-in colour plates. Collated, complete.A lovely collection of plates depicting stipple-engravings and mezzotint-engravings of works from artists such as Angelica Kauffman, George Romney, George Morland and Joshua Reynolds, by engravers F. Bartolozzi, L. Schiavonetti, P. W. Tomkins, G. Vendramini and others. Malcolm Charles Salaman (1855-1940), who was an author, journalist and critic, compiled the work and wrote the introduction. This work was edited by Charles Holme. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, though faded with shelf wear. Gilt remains bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Illustrated with Engravings by F. Bartolozzi and P. W. Tomkins from Original Pictures painted for the Work by W. Hamilton. With 6 full page plates (including frontis), ten head-and-tail pieces and five vignettes. (illustrator). 1st Edition. PAGES: Half title, title, Engraved Frontispiece, engraved dedication leaf, subscribers list (5 pp), list of engravings (1 p.), 244. With 6 full page plates (including frontis), ten head-and-tail pieces and five vignettes. BINDING & CONDITION: Half leather, rubbed; upper cover and up to list of subscribers detached; half title and frontis torn off at top corner and edges frayed, creased & dust soiled; HENCE THE VERY LOW PRICE, ALLOWING FOR RESTORATION & MORE. Size: 6 3/4 X 4 1/4 Inches. (17 X 10.5 Cms.).

Leather. Condition: Very Good. F. Bartolozzi; P. W. Tomkins; W. Hamilton (illustrator). A superb illustrated folio edition of the best known poetical work of James Thomson. A folio edition of 'The Seasons', the best known poem by James Thomson.Illustrated with a frontispiece, six plates, and fifteen engraved vignettes and head and tail pieces, and an engraved dedication leaf. This edition is illustrated F. Bartolozzi and P. W. Tomkins, after W. Hamilton.Half-title is present.List of subscribers to the front.Collated, complete.'The Seasons' is a long blank verse poem, and reflects on the landscape of the countryside, a series of four poems, each focussing on one season of the year. For the poem, Thomson borrowed Milton's Latin influence vocabulary and inverted word order.This was an immensely popular and influential work when it was published, inspiring the likes of Thomas Gainsborough and J. M. W. Turner.The work wasn't just influential in the literary world, but also in the legal world; there were disputes over the publishing rights for the poem, and it led to two important legal decisions, Millar v. Taylor and Donaldson v. Beckett, both landmarks in the history of copywritings. In a modern quarter morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, fine. Front free endpaper is edge worn with handling marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. Small tidemark to the head of the frontispiece and plates. Spots are heavier to the plates. Title page has been repaired. Very Good. book.

Folio. (18 x 14 7/8 inches). Half-title, 5 section titles, 5pp. subscribers' list. Stipple engraved emblematic frontispiece by Tomkins, 6 stipple engraved plates (2 by Bartolozzi, 4 by Tomkins), 4 vignette stipple engraved illustrations by Tomkins, 10 stipple-engraved head or tailpieces (4 by Bartolozzi, 6 by Tomkins), all after William Hamilton, engraved dedication leaf. Contemporary blue straight-grained morocco gilt, covers with wide decorative neo-classical border made up from fillets, a drawer-handle roll and a swag and stylized flower head roll, spine in seven compartments with double raised bands, the bands highlighted by rules and roll tools, lettered in the second compartment, the seventh compartment with onlaid label tooled in gilt with two armorial crests (one of the Peters family, the other unidentified), the remaining compartments with repeat decoration of a centrally-placed tool of two birds perched on a bow with crossed arrows behind them, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, edges with alternate bands of gilding A deluxe edition of Thomson's famed poem, with stipple-engravings from two of the greatest engravers of their time, and in a magnificent contemporary binding. Thomson's paean to the countryside and the simple country life is now seen as a precursor of the romantic movement in English poetry, as exemplified by Wordsworth and Coleridge. The present edition, published the year before the appearance of the Lyrical Ballads, is perhaps the most luxurious edition of The Seasons ever published. Abbey Life 252; Brunet V, 836; Cohen/de Ricci p.992; Lowndes IV, p.2671.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. London: London: Printed for W. Tomkins. The Letterpress by T Bensley. The Type by V. Figgins., First Edition Thus. Full leather binding, worn scratched and marked but structurally sound, heavily gilt decorated to the spine and boards, gilt page edges and marbled end papers with inner gilt dentelles. Imperial folio. Worming to the base of the Lavinia and Her Mother full page plate. 21 engraved illustrations as per the list of engravings, an engraved frontispiece, five full-page engravings, ten head-and-tail pieces and five vignettes. Boards ruled in gilt tooling. Spine elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. [10, title, dedication, subscribers list and list of engravings, [1]-236pp. Provenance: signature of RJJ Cary, Torr Abbey to the dedication. Approximately 19 inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition 12 raised bands, gilt decoration and titles, worn and rubbed with very minor loss. Joints good condition rubbed and worn. Corners good condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition heavily gilt decorated, marked scratched and worn with some loss to the leather. Page edges good condition top edge a;; gilt, top darkened, some waviness. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition marbled paper, gilt dentelles. End papers good condition marbled end papers. Title good condition lightly tanned, half title present. Pages good condition lightly tanned throughout, creased to page 188. Binding good condition worn but attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1747 Binding: Hardback.