Heath C Engravings (4 results)

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Lots of Engravings (illustrator). First Edition. sm crown, red decorated cloth, 64 pp. stab stitched, vg for age, no dj, an early Methodist educational book dealing with saftey issues, and nicely illustrated with small engravings. Size: Sm Crown.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Mr. Pugin (Drawings) Mr. C. Heath (engravings) (illustrator). 2 separate volumes. Three quarter leather over marbled boards. Scuffed edges, else tight and unmarked. 'Lydia Thomas' leather label to front covers. End papers moderately foxed. Scattered light foxing spots on tet and illustrated pages. Tissue guards. Overall, a decent set.

Illustrated by Felix O. C. Darley with frontispiece, illustrated title and fifteen drawings, including full-page wood engravings and a seven-panel folding lithograph by William Heath produced by Sarony, New York titled Peter Stuyvesant's Army E (illustrator). Early Edition 1850 (1848). Bound in the publisher's full red Morocco with gilt decorations and designs; with beveled boards with marbled endpapers, all edges in gilt gauffered in a crosshatched pattern with small florets, the spine in six panels.With heavy wear and tearing to the bottom of the spine. Rubbing along the bottom and front boards. A good only copy, but with charming gauffered gilt edges all around.

Displayed in a Series of Picturesque Views, from Original Drawings, taken expressly for this work.  Fifty-one issues. 202 engravings on 101 sheets, one engraved title-page in last issue. With topographical and historical descriptions by L.T. Ventouillac, in English and in French. Small folio. All issues in original printed wrappers, all with some wear, two issues lacking rear wrapper. No. 40 with one sheet of engravings damaged, no. 45 with lot number sticker to front wrapper, some issues with light foxing. London, R. Jennings and W. Chaplin; Paris, Treuttel & Wurtz, 1829 - A rare complete set in the original wrappers. Some issues include inlays with publisher's advertisements and printed notes on the publications.  A series that exemplifies the 19th century view of Paris as one of the most beautiful cities in the world and the capital of culture. The avis to the verso of the first issue's wrapper reads: "'Qui n'a vu Paris n'a rien vu," dit l'ancien proverbe, vérifié ici par la foule innombrable d'étrangers qui vont tous les jours admirer les Monumens qui ornent notre capitale, et jouir sous le beau climat de la France des charmes qu'offrent à la fois et la nature et les beaux-arts.  Il est naturel que les personnes qui se voient privées de ce plaisir cherchent les moyens de s'en dédommager, et il est peut-être aussi naturel que celles qui en ont joui, désirent se les rappeler. C'est pour satisfaire à ces deux besoins que l'on publie l'ouvrage que nous offrons aujourd'hui au public, et qui doit plaire également aux habitans des deux pays. Le Français y verra avec une satisfaction, mêlée d'un orgueil bien pardonnable, les Monumens qui ornent la capital de sa patrie; tandis que les étrangers accueilleront avec non moins de plaisir une représentation exacte des Monumens qu'ils ont admiré, ou qu'ils espèrent un jour pouvoir visiter." The series includes engravings of various Parisian monuments such as the Pont Neuf, the Hotel des Invalides, the Tuileries Gardens, numerous churches, etc. by various artists after the British architect, designer and artist A. Pugin (1812-1852) and under the superintendence of C. Heath.