John Augustus Atkinson (25 results)

"Bathing Horses" high-quality facsimile/reprint in giclée print with narrow white border on 250g Schwarzwaldmühle art print cardboard (21x30cm) after an etching by Atkinson published in 1803 by John Boydell in London.

No Binding. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Plate from John Augustus Atkinson's (1775 - 1831) 'A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs and Amusements of the Russians', 1803 - 1804. Hand coloured soft ground etching and aquatint with very large margins. Green bevel cut mount. Mount window 190 x 253 mm; overall size of mount 340 x 405 mm. John Augustus Atkinson was a British etcher, painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He spent 1784 - 1801 in Russia with his uncle, James Walker. After returning to London in 1801, he made prints after his works, of Russian subjects, and made outline etchings for other artists. He also executed paintings on military subjects and battles. 34 x 40.5 overall cm. Note the shading in the right margin. This is rippling of the paper from the damp stained outer margin hidden beneath the mount. The paper is also slightly toned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [ATKINSON John Augustus] (illustrator). 1st Edition. 'The Miseries of Human Life' VG+, 1807, First edition, 17 hand coloured illustrations. In small oblong quarto half green morocco over green marbled boards (by Orrock & Son), gilt tooling, edges rubbed. Spine, gilt tooling & titles, edges rubbed, worn along joints. Internally, engraved titlepage with hand coloured etched vignette, followed by 16 hand coloured etched plates (1 folding), each accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text, original paper label bound in at rear, green marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate to fpd (Glen Tanar), t.e.g., remainder uncut, faint damp staining in the upper margin, a few text leaves with tiny marginal tears, plates watermarked 1802, text watermarked 1806. An Excellent UnCut Copy. (170*210 mm). (Abbey Life 259. Prideaux p319. Not in Tooley). A noteworthy point about the book is that the title and the idea of the illustrations seem to have inspired Rowlandson, whose Miseries of Human Life appeared, a year later, in 1808 (Martin Hardie).

Condition: Good. Hand colored etching and aquatint. 172 x 235 mm. (sheet). Very Good.Provenance: From the collection of the Late Frederick G. Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. John Augustus Atkinson (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of William Henry Ireland's reinterpretation of the medieval German allegorical poem. The first edition of Shakespearian forger William Henry Ireland's version of Sebastian Brant's satirical allegory.Illustrated with a folding hand coloured frontispiece by English artist John Augustus Atkinson, and a further vignette illustration to the title page.A smart first edition from the forger of would-be Shakespearean documents and plays, known also for his gothic novels.Ireland reinterprets Brant's late fifteenth century work. Rebacked in quarter morocco, with half calf original boards laid down. Significant rubbing to boards. Hinges strained but firmly held. Lacking the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned, with spotting to title page, and the odd light handling mark. Very Good. book.

Calf. Condition: Good. John Augustus Atkinson. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Volume 1 is the 8th edition [1807] + Folding frontises to both volumes with vol 1. Viii PP + 337 pages. Volume 2 1807 is a 1st edition] and has Vi pp + 292 pages with a 12 page publishers catalogue at the rear, in total there are 17 fold-out hand coloured aquatints with a folding parody theatre broadside purporting to be at The Haymarket Theatre, this printed on fine toned paper, woodcuts in the text, variant half calf, the binding worn with hinges showing on volume 2, volume 1 has bracketed pencilled areas in the margins (would erase) but in the main good+ to very good, plates mostly very clean one plate has become foxed, some edge wear on another and frontis has an old repair at the rear where once torn, the volumes are small Octavo, (2 volumes).

Calf. Condition: Good. John Augustus Atkinson. (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Volume 1 is the 7th edition [1807] and has a folding hand coloured frontis after W. H. Pyne, Viii PP + 337 pages. Volume 2 has a folding plain frontis by James Beresford after Edward Scriven and Vi pp + 292 pages with a 12 page publishers catalogue at the rear, in total there are 18 fold-out hand coloured aquatints with a folding parody theatre broadside purporting to be at The Haymarket printed on fine toned paper, woodcuts in the text, the volumes are in a worn tree-calf with labels mostly lost, back board of volume 2 separating, stringing showing and back broken and with a vertical split on volume 2 also. title page also repaired in this volume and in volume 1 the endpaper also has amateur repairs, the plates escape any taping used, the remaining plates and text are mostly clean and the plates free from marks and minor offsetting and perhaps the occasional light foxing, mostly clean and hand-made rag paper has done its job. Volume 1 is a 7th edition dated 1807 (first was 1806) and the 2nd volume is a 2nd edition of 1807. Small Octavo, (2 volumes).

Condition: Good. Folio. 32 x 47cm. 3 volumes. New half goatskin bindings with marbled boards by the artisan binder, Sasha Mosalov. 93 coloured aquatints, lacking the last 7 plates = Abbey plate nos. 95-101. Abbey plate nos. 54-56 are foxed outside the images.Other plates very clean without printed plate numbers. The aquatints are printed on one side of the sheet and the other side is blank.Abbey Travel, 223; Lipperheide Kaa 21; Colas 171; Tooley 72; OCLC Number 4024791.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Half morocco marbled boards with printed paper title label on the upper cover. Hand-coloured folding frontispiece which has a little crease. Hand-coloured engraved title page and complete 16 further hand-coloured plates with accompanying letter pressed descriptions."* 12 shillings. Coloured". Found in Abbey 259.

First edition. With 50 colour aquatint costume plates, dated 1813. Hardback. Contemporary black long-grained morocco boards, gilt and embossed, corners slightly rubbed. All edges gilt, and gilt inner dentelle. Slight offsetting, and light foxing to some pages. Each plate has a page of text to describe it. All life is here; from Gipsey to Hussar, and Lord Mayor to Dairy Maid. Very attractive copy. Ref: Colas 2537; Lipperheide Gca 21; Tooley 374. [52] pp, plus 50 plates. 240 x 170 mm (9½ x 6¾ inches).

Unpaginated - title with coloured vignette, folding frontispiece [this is plate 14 with text leaf in sequence], 15 additional plates with accompanying text leaves, all plates are soft-ground etchings with hand-colouring, by Atkinson. Original boards with printed label on front cover, uncut, occasional off-setting to text, scattered dust marks and faint foxing, label with tiny patch of border loss, early presentation inscription to HARIET IRELAND, 1816, overall a very good copy.

FIRST EDITION. Oblong 4to. Hand-colured engraved title, 16 further hand-coloured plates (one folding) with accompanying text page; the odd mark & crease. Orig. green cloth boards; largely faded to brown, sl. rubbed & marked. Abbey, Life 259; Tooley 89. Based on the Reverend James Beresford's The Miseries of Human Life, published in 1806 by Miller. A charming suite of hand-coloured plates illustrating the various forms of miseries experienced amongst the wealthier classes in Regency Britain. These include Miseries of the Country, Miseries of Games, Sports, &c., Miseries of London, Miseries of Social Life, &c. John Augustus Atkinson, c.1775-1830, English artist and engraver. As a young man he travelled to St. Petersburg to learn under his uncle James Walker, engraver to Empress Catherine the Great.

First edition; 3 vols in one; frontispiece portrait, 100 colour plates, text in French and English, water stain effecting the latter plates, half dark green morocco, spine with gilt tooling and the title 'Russians and Turks', slightly worn; [bound with] Tableau gà nà rale de l'empire Othoman, Imprimerie de Monsieur, Paris, 1787, vol. I only, engraved title-page, dedication to King of Sweden, 41 plates, several folding, missing 3 plates (13,19 and 36). This is the second of Atkinson's works to be published after his return from St. Petersburg. He accompanied his uncle James Walker there when the latter had been appointed engraver to the Empress Catherine and had returned in 1801 after 18 years spent in Russia. Dedicated to Alexander I, whose portrait is in frontispiece. 'These plates [.] show the spontaneity and spirit possible when the artist is his own engraver. [.] The colouring is skilfully done, in soft washes' (Abbey). Many subjects are here dealt with for the first, and often only, time in a European publication. The work is bound with volume one of Tableau gà nà rale de l'empire Othoman, a monumental work on the Ottoman court undertaken by Swedish diplomat, Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson. Having a firm grasp of both Arabic and Turkish allowed d'Ohsson to witness aspects of everyday life at court that were normally inaccessible to Europeans. The plates present here depict the city's sites as well as religious and ceremonial ceremonies.

COSTUME; ATKINSON, John Augustus|MURRAY, John|ALEXANDER, William (illustrator). First Edition. A Fine Group of Costume Books With More Than Two Hundred Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates [COSTUME]. [ALEXANDER, William]. Picturesque Representations of The Dress and Manners of the English. Illustrated in Fifty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions. London: John Murray, 1814. [With]: Picturesque Representations of The Dress and Manners of the Turks. Illustrated in Sixty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions. London: John Murray, 1814. [With]: Picturesque Representations of The Dress and Manners of the Austrians. Illustrated in Fifty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions. London: John Murray, 1814. [With]: Picturesque Representations of The Dress and Manners of the Russians. Illustrated in Sixty-Four [63] Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions. London: John Murray, 1814. [With]: Picturesque Representations of The Dress and Manners of the Chinese. Illustrated in Fifty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions. London: John Murray, 1814. First editions of John Murray's reduced format series of Alexander's costume books. Five small quarto volumes (9 1/8 x 6 7/16 inches; 232 x 163 mm). With 273 of 274 fine hand-colored aquatint plates. Lacking plate number 60 of 64 in the "Russians" volume. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco. Double gilt-rule border on covers. Boards also tooled in blind. Spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt. Gilt board edges and dentelles. Drab green endpapers. All edges gilt. With an armorial bookplates on front pastedown of each volume. Some light sunning to spines of a few volumes. Occasional light rubbing to board edges and spine extremities. "English" volume with some light discoloration to front board. Very minor foxing, otherwise an excellent set. Plates in fine condition. A fine group of Alexander's costume books, originally published in folios in 1805. These reduced versions were published as a series by John Murray, "who takes his place among the publishers of coloured books of costume" (Martin-Hardie, p. 153). The book on English costumes is the only one of the five that was probably not illustrated by Alexander, though the format is consistent with that of the other four. According to Prideaux and Martin-Hardie this volume was "admirably drawn and hand-coloured in a style so like that of Atkinson that they may well be accepted as his work" (Martin-Hardie, p. 154). William Alexander (1767-1816) was the first keeper of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, who had gone out as junior draughtsman with Lord Macartney's embassy. "Alexander was an excellent draughtsman, and his illustrations are of considerable value" (Prideaux, p. 250). Colas 75 and 78. Hiler, p. 16 (lists all five under Alexander). Lipperheide 832; 1351; 1423; 1527-28. Prideaux, p. 325 (lists all five under Alexander). HBS 67827. $7,500.

Hardcover. Paper pastedown. Condition: Very Good Minus. First edition. Oblong, 18.5 by 21.5 cm. Hand-colored engraved title, followed by 16 hand-colored plates, one of which is folding. Based on the Reverend James Beresford's "The Miseries of Human Life", published in 1806 by Miller. (The same work inspired publisher Rudolph Ackermann and artist Thomas Rowlandson as well.) Each plate accompanied by a facing letterpress page of description. Abbey 259. WIth original boards and printed label. Dampstain covering much of label and touching on the surrounding board paper pastedown, which has a moderate amount of other soiling too. The dampstain is heavy for small area of label, but none of the type is unreadable. Also a small finger-scrape hole of the label, again not affecting its content materially. A few light stains and finger smudges of the interior leaves, but overall these come off as crisp and clean.

Large color aquatint of Russian woman and child. Set in a wintry landscape with a log cabin style cottage in the background, a woman and young boy are out for a stroll; the boy pulling a sled on a rope. The woman is handsomely dressed in pink fur lined floor length coat with matching hat and fur muff, while the boy is dressed in a blue coat, tall black boots and a fur lined cap. Measures 18.5 x 25 cm; bright and clean, very good.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 10 ½ x 13 5/8 inches (26.7 x 34.6 cm., entire sheet). hand-coloured aquatint. Wellington is shown with four of his officers and a horse around a fire; other soldiers are shown in the background. The Battle of the Pyrenees, July 25-30, 1813 was an unsuccessful large-scale offensive led by Marshal Soult with the aim of relieving French garrisons under siege in Pamplona and San Sebastian. Soult was forced to withdraw in the face of mounting resistance by Wellington and his allied troops. Published in Edward Orme's 'Historic, Military, and Naval Anecdotes', London: 1819.

Condition: Good. Handcolored aquatint in a mat. 40 x 26. cm. Folded at very top to fit into mat in the past.References: San Francisco Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts;Accession Number 1963.30.22585.

First Edition. "The Miseries of Human Life" Depicted in Sixteen Amusing Hand Colored Etched Plates [ATKINSON, John Augustus]. Sixteen Scenes taken from The Miseries of Human Life. By one of The Wretched. London: Published by Wm. Miller, 1807. First edition. Small oblong quarto (6 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches; 172 x 206 mm.). Hand-colored etched vignette title and sixteen hand-colored etched plates (one folding). At the top of each plate a reference is given to its place in James Beresford's Miseries of Human Life. Each plate accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text. Plates watermarked 1802, text watermarked 1806. Three plates with professionally repaired tears (see below), another with marginal foxing. One leaf of text with small (one inch) lower blank marginal tear. Some minor mainly marginal foxing or soiling. Modern full red morocco, covers ruled and decorated in gilt, front cover titles in gilt, spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt,marbled endpapers. Old booksellers description on front paste-down. An excellent uncut copy. "[Atkinson's] Sixteen Scenes taken from the miseries of Human Life, by one of the Wretched.was published by W. Miller in 1807, and is illustrated by etchings, mostly in soft-ground, coloured by hand. His spirited and clever drawings are full of character, surpassing those of Alken. No. II, 'Seeing the boy who is next above you flogged for a repetition which you know you cannot say,' should appeal to most Britons. The angry schoolmaster, laying on the birch with will, the pathetic countenance of the horsed victim, and the anguished stare of the miserable onlooker, waiting his turn with the book in hand, are all most happily and naturally expressed. Another excellent drawing, well worthy of Rowlandson, is No. IX.-'Miseries of Watering-Places.' A noteworthy point about the book is that the title and the idea of the illustrations seem to have inspired Rowlandson, whose Miseries of Human Life appeared, a year later, in 1808" (Martin Hardie). The Plates: 1. Miseries of the Country. 2. Miseries of Games, Sports, &c. 3. Miseries of London. (text leaf with 1 inch tear at lower blank margin) 4. Miseries of Stage Coaches. 5. Miseries of Social Life 6. Miseries of Reading and Writing. 7. Miseries Domestic. 8. Miseries Miscellaneous. 9. Miseries of Watering Places. 10. Miseries of Fashionable Life. (blank margins a little spotted) 11. Miseries of Fashionable Life. 12. Miseries of London - The Theatres. 13. Miseries of Travelling. 14. Miseries of the Table. (folding - professionally repaired tear and strengthened at fold) 15. Miseries Domestic. 16. Miseries Miscellaneous. (text plate neatly repaired at inner blank margin) Abbey, Life, 259. Bobins IV, 1321; Martin Hardie, p. 156. Prideaux, p. 319. Not in Tooley.

Only edition of this fine suite of plates, particularly rare in the original wrappers, as here. Just three other sets have gone through auction, all uncoloured: Christie's in 2002, Sotheby's in 1937, and the Boston auctioneers C. F. Libbie in 1905. WorldCat locates three copies only: Stanford, Chicago and Brown. No copy is held at the British Library, although there is one at the National Army Museum. The 16 scenes include piper George Clarke of the 71st Highlanders, who, although wounded, continued to play while the regiment went forward at Vimeiro; Captain Kelly of the Life Guards engaging a French colonel of cuirassiers at Waterloo; Sir Thomas Picton leading the storming party at Badajoz; (perhaps inevitably) the death of Sir John Moore at Corunna; and Captain Latham of the Buffs saving the King's Colour at Albuera. Three show Wellington: being mobbed by the enthusiastic inhabitants of Toulouse in 1814, huddling at a camp fire ("Bivouac in the Pyrenees") and, most strikingly, at Waterloo, giving his famous command "Stand Up, Guards!" Lithography was a relatively new medium in 1817 and the wrappers carry a puff by the publisher, Rudolph Ackermann, remarking on this: "a process possessing all the softness and beauty of the originals". It is a medium that certainly captures Atkinson's "deceptively improvisatory manner" (ODNB) of drawing. Atkinson (1774-1830) was largely self-taught and had made something of a name for himself with a series of attractive colour plate books that demonstrated his "lively draughtsmanship" (ODNB). In June 1815 he travelled to Belgium to view the battlefield of Waterloo, and his large depiction of the battle was exhibited at the British Institution in 1817 and engraved byJohn Burnettwo years later. "His work was popular, and among his patrons were theDuke of WellingtonandRichard Colt Hoare. Atkinson'swork had something of the lively and happy interest in human life ofThomas Rowlandsonand the caricaturists of the period" (ibid.) and this is certainly evident in the present suite of plates. Provenance: from the celebrated colour plate library of Norman Bobins, with his bookplate. Bobins 344 (this copy); Ogilby 13 ("this set was intended to be published in 6 parts, each of 4 plates. Only 4 parts were published"); not in Abbey. 4 parts (all published), landscape folio. With 16 hand-coloured lithograph plates. Uncut in original printed wrappers, stitching renewed, Ackermann's advertisements to back wrappers and verso of front wrappers. Housed in a custom solander box. Some fraying and repairs to edges, spines worn, front wrapper of first part lightly toned, general signs of handling and a few marks to wrappers, scattered foxing and browning, yet this remains a very good set.

2 volumes in one, being volumes 2 and 3 ONLY- folio 19 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches. Crudely bound. A BREAKING OR WORKING COPY- wanting titles but with plate list and most of the text. ILLUSTRATED WITH 65 (of 67) HAND COLOURED PLATES being soft ground etchings with some aquatint- by Atkinson. 5 plates slightly creased. Sold as a collection of hand coloured plates. Wanting Ice Hills and Tartars - both from volume two. The complete work is in three volumes with 100 plates and is the first work in English to give an accurate representation of the manners and customs of the ordinary Russian people (DNB). According to Major Abbey in his bibliography - the plates show the spontaneity and spirit possible when the artist is his own engraver. the colour is skilfully done in soft washes. Abbey Travel 223.

3 parties en un volume in-folio, demi-maroquin rouge à coins, plats de papier marbré, pièce de titre mosaïquée en maroquin vert sur le dos à six nerfs finement orné à petits fers dorés; doublures et gardes de papier marbré, non rogné. Etui.Première édition de cet ouvrage comportant 100 planches hors texte en couleurs dessinées et gravées par John Augustus Atkinson, chacune accompagnée d'une légende en anglais et en français. Né à Londres, John Augustus Atkinson est accueilli en 1784 à Saint-Pétersbourg par son oncle James Walker qui était le graveur de l'impératrice Catherine. Il y étudie la peinture et est encouragé par la Grande Catherine et son fils Paul Ier qui lui confient la réalisation de grandes fresques de l'histoire russe. Il retourne en Angleterre en 1801 et publie deux ans plus tard le présent recueil. En 1808, il est élu à la Society of Painters in Water Colours. Il se spécialise dans les scènes de batailles terrestres et maritimes, et décède vers 1832.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1861 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 189 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 189.

First Edition. "(ATKINSON, John Augustus, illustrator) THORNTON, Alfred. Don Juan. London: Thomas Kelly, 1821-22. Two volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century full red levant morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $1800.First edition of this satirical survey of life in early 19th-century England, wonderfully illustrated with 31 hand-colored aquatint plates by Atkinson, handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt by Root & Son."The first volume is a parody of Mozart's and Byron's Don Juan, the second an imitation of Egan's Life in London" (Abbey). Illustrator John Augustus Atkinson's work "had something of the lively and happy interest in human life of Thomas Rowlandson and the caricaturists of the period After his return to London he worked almost exclusively in aquatint and watercolor both of which suited his deceptively improvisatory manner. His occasional weaknesses in draughtsmanship were more than compensated for by the sharpness of his observations and the vitality and liveliness of his compositions" (ODNB). Abbey Life 323. Tooley 486. Upper corner of Volume I title page repaired. Text and plates generally clean, slight rubbing to joints, bindings sound and quite handsome. A lovely illustrated work in near-fine condition.".

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1803-1804. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Pages:- 434, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 434 434.