John Schetky (8 results)

Leather. Condition: FR/No Dustjacket. Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). London, UK: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. FR/No Dustjacket. 1808. . Leather. Sm 4to., 64 pp., rubbed, bumped, leather chipped, spine missing, page foxing, toning .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. John C. Schetky (illustrator). Consisting of Twelve views on the Rivers Bothwick, Ettrick, Yarrow, Tiviot and Tweed engraved by James Heath R.A. from designs taken on the spot by John Schetky, of Oxford, with Anecdotes and Descriptions. 8 pp., 64 pp., with pictorial title page, dedication by Schetky to Her Grace the Duchess of Buccleuch, Advertisement "The descriptions annexed to these views are compiled from the Lay of the Last Minstrel, and other works of Mr Walter Scott, who has oblingingly revised the whole, and supplied several additional Anecdotes." Twelve landscape engravings with foxing below the titles in the gutter, very few stains although the pages opposite the plates often bear the imprinted shadow of the illustration. Original publisher's paper covered boards, corners bumped, boards rubbed, spine strip lacking, text separated at gathers, covers loose. Wide margins, uncut bottom and fore-edges, top edges unopened. 11.5 x 9 Inches. Book.

Hardcover. tan leather spine w/ black & gilt title plate. one marbled paper board. 125 pgs w/ 32 plates combined. This appears to be the remnants of a custom, leather bound edition of the Robert Burns and Walter Scott printings. All pages and plates appear intact; thought tissues guards are intermittently missing. Robert Burns edition has 20 plates and the Walter Scott printing has 12. Text block is holding, but, this is a reading copy or rebinding candidate for these two uncommon editions. Good (covers missing. leather spine worn & chipped; sections missing at ends; attached to one side, only. front board, only. textblock split. tanning & foxing to pages.).

Leather. Condition: Good Only. John C. Schetky (illustrator). A scarce illustrated edition of Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, with plates throughout. Scarce work. Illustrated with twelve plates. Collated complete. Scott's historical narrative poem, set in the Scottish Borders in the sixteenth century, in six cantos, written as if sung by a minstrel. With notes, anecdotes, and descriptions. Including twelve views on the rivers Bothwick, Ettrick, Yarrow, Tiviot, and Tweed. Engraved by James Heath from designs by John Christian Schetky, a Scottish marine painter. Bound in full brown calf. Externally, worn with rubbing and light wear to the extremities. Front board detached. Rear joint very tender and could detach with further handling. Light loss to the head and tail of the spine and the spine label. The odd mark to the board. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright with age toning and light spotting. Residue of removed bookplate to the front pastedown. Good Only. book.

Folio (17ĵ x 13ĵ ins). Original quarter calf with gilt lettered spine on blue pebble-grain cloth with gilt lettering surrounded by naval motifs (spine worn at head and tail and upper board with large stain; top and fore-edge lightly spotted). Pp. [iv] + 16 + plates + [4] blank, illus with 20 photograph plates mounted above captions all with guards (plates all rather toned at edges and rear endpapers heavily spotted; no inscriptions).

5 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, 8 November 1863. John Christian Schetky (17781874), Scottish marine painter. In 1867, the year of his wife's death, Schetky published 'Reminiscences of Veterans of the Sea', a series of photographs of twenty of his paintings and drawings selected to illustrate the great wooden fighting vessels of the British Navy. "I fear it will break Capt Watson's heart to behold (before his face) hisold pet ship hash'd and smash'd in the manner he describes! - it is indeed a sorry account of her present condition, and I fear a true one!".

Aquatint printed in blue, coloured by hand, by W. Bennett after Schetky. A fine aquatint by William James Bennett after Schetky recalling the landing of King George IV at Leith in Scotland. Following his coronation in July of 1821, George IV visited Ireland in August and September of the same year. The following summer he sailed for Scotland landing at Leith on 14 August, he remained in Edinburgh until 29 August before returning to England. Schetky, Marine Painter Extraordinary to the King and the Duke of Clarence, here recalls the events at Leith. Not in Deak William James Bennett Master of the Aquatint View New York, 1988.

ONE OF ONLY A FEW COMPLETE SETS London: Smith Elder & Co. 1830. Portfolio ( 615 x 475mm), Contemporary Boards, rebacked with Original Letterpress Title mounted on upper board, with descriptive leaf of text, Four hand-coloured lithographed plates by L. Haghe after Schetky. A very rare set of views depicting one of the best-known frigate actions in history. Only a few complete sets have appeared at auction. The U.S.S. Chesapeake was one of six original frigates authorized in 1794 to form the United States Navy. She was under the command of James Lawrence when he made the fatal decision to leave Boston on 1 June 1813 to fight the British frigate Shannon, which was offshore challenging the Chesapeake to engage in battle. After a fierce and annihilating battle that lasted all of eleven minutes, according to the documented account by British captain R.N. King, the Chesapeake surrendered. Of her crew, eighty-four men, including Captain Lawrence, were killed or mortally wounded and 115 others severely wounded. The Shannon lost thirty men and counted fifty-six wounded. The Chesapeake was taken to Halifax after her capture and thence to Britain. During the Anglo-American War of 1812-14 the event which captured the public s imagination more than any other was the celebrated duel between the Royal Navy s frigate H.M.S. Shannon and the new republic s frigate Chesapeake. Cruising off the eastern seaboard Captain Philip Broke of the Shannon spotted the American frigates Chesapeake and Constitution refitting in Boston. Broke immediately challenged Captain Lawrence of the Chesapeake to come out and fight and at about noon on 1st June 1813 the latter weighed anchor and stood out of Boston Roads accompanied by a small flotilla of pleasure craft crowded with spectators anxious to witness the fight. A furious action followed lasting a mere fifteen minutes; Captain Broke was badly wounded leading his boarding party and casualties on both vessels were very high. Soon overwhelmed Chesapeake surrendered and Shannon took her as a prize into Halifax Nova Scotia where on the 6th June the captors were given a heros welcome. The descriptive leaf of text is lacking the lower right corner losing a small area of text. We can trace only 2 institutional copies: Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library and the New York Historical Society. [unrecorded in the standard bibliographies; no copy recorded on COPAC].