Harding J Ames D Uffield (1 results)

FIRST EDITION. Folio. (54 x 36 cm.) Contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt decorated panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Lithographed title, list of contents and 25 tissue-guarded full page lithographed plates printed by Hullmandel on "adhered" paper (as normal). Light foxing to first 4 and last leaf, contents generally very good, binding lightly rubbed but generally sound and attractive. First and only edition and a book of considerable importance, "the first publication with all the plates in lithotint" to quote Michael Twyman. "Harding was the undoubted master of the process of lithotint.[The Park] is a work of landscape rather than topography and consists of 26 plates (including title) of trees in their appropriate landscape settings. the edition was 1000 copies. All the plates are printed in black with a tint stone of the usual buff colour and are lettered 'Printed with [or from] C. Hullmandel's Patent.' Instead of India paper the lithographs are printed on what is described on the title-page as 'Smith and Chapman's adhesed paper,' which appears to have been mounted during printing in the normal matter" (Twyman, Lithography, pp. 216--218).