Pasquin Peter (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: VG+. An original presskit that contains one supplement as well as two 8 x 10 stills. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. PASQUIN Peter [ie EGERTON Michael] (illustrator). 1st Edition. The Misadventures of a Free-Loader Told in Six Beautifully Hand Coloured Aquatints First edition, later issue, oblong folio, six bright and beautifully hand coloured aquatint plates, watermarked 1835, with guards, unsigned with imprint: London, Published by W Egerton, 1824. Later pink wrappers with facsimile label on front wrapper, armourial bookplate on inside front wrapper (Harry Twyford Peters), chemised in a quarter red morocco slipcase. A Fine Example (253*358 mm). (Abbey Life 289. Prideaux p347). Egerton was a social caricaturist who worked in London in the 1820's in the manner of George Cruikshank (see Houfe p294). These amusing plates depict the misadventures of a free loader.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. PASQUIN Peter [ie ALKEN Henry] (illustrator). 1st Edition. A Scarce work Probably by Henry Alken, with Six Humorous Hand Coloured Plates. First edition, oblong folio, cover title, one blank leaf, and six hand coloured engraved plates (unnumbered and signed Peter Pasquin, Delt.), each with six figures, plates watermarked 1824. Original publishers brown wrappers, expertly rebacked and repaired to style, back wrapper advertising other works by McLean, including many Alken, plates very bright and fresh, with minimal finger soiling. Housed in a navy blue buckram portfolio, gilt titles, with book label (Alfred N Beadleston). Overall an excellent copy of this very scarce work. A witty series making ingenious connections between the characters depicted and common flowers, six designs with floral captions appearing on each plate. (371*262 mm). (Dixon 69 (without wrappers); Siltzer, p. 71. No listing at Abbey or Tooley). Though William Henry Pyne is frequently associated with the pseudonym Peter Pasquin, the Dictionary of National Biography attributes this work to Henry Alken, a frequent illustrator at the time of caricatures and humorous plates for McLean; indeed, these thirty six portraits, with their punning flower name captions, resemble other series of Alken's plates from the period. [Alken's] earliest productions were published anonymously under the signature of 'Ben Tallyho'; but in 1816 he issued with his name 'The Beauties & Defects in the Figure of the Horse comparatively delineated.' From this date until about 1831 he produced many sets of etchings. mostly coloured, and sometimes humorous in character, the principal of which were 'Humorous Specimens in Riding,' 1821-3; 'Symptoms of Being amazed,' 1822; 'Symptoms of being amused,' 1822; 'Flowers from Nature,' 1823-5. The fertility of Alken's pencil was amazing. In all Alken's works there is a freedom of handling and a happy choice of subject which rendered them very popular in their day (DNB).

Peter Pasquin aka Henry Alken (illustrator). RARE 1824 satirical lithograph Henry Alken titled"Flowers from Nature" image size 7 3/4 x 10 1/4 ins overall approx 10 5/8 x 16 3/4 ins Originally from a suite of 6 works by Peter Pasquin AKA Henry Alken A witty series making ingenious connections between the characters depicted and common flowers, this lithograph was published by E.S Mesier's. ?some margin tears and paper toning, image itself has minor mars and when matted and framed to it would look great?

Half Morocco. Cloth on boards. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Oblong, 27.5 by 38 cm. Original front wrap cover bound in. Suite of six hand-colored of the eternal "user" and freeloader, with the humorous illustrations supplemented by long-ish captions that explain anecdotally what is going on above. Here, the shameless sponge availing himself of other's hospitality, largesse, or greater resources, suffers one indignity and injury after another, and in a sense, gets his just deserts! The anecdotes are specific to the age -- the cadging a coach ride to the country, for example -- but are easily extrapolated and/or related to the appurtenances of modern times. The captions, written in a first person voice, come off as stilted as do almost all writing sounds to modern ears, but we believe the affectation would have been also heard as such back then, as the flowery language contributes to the humor, with the narrator seeking to apply an elegant or classy veneer to his base self-centered behavior. Condition: some rubbing along joints. Darkening to the red morocco. Blank preliminary and closing leaves heavily foxed. Front wrap with large corner chip, several inches along bottom and side edge, with repair by attaching of blank sheet in a closely matched color to the wrap paper. A moderate amount of soiling and staining of the wrap elsewhere. Color plates themselves have occasional light fox marks, moderate edge age toning, but overall read as clean, with the pictorial part of plates fresh and bright.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1819 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: 14 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: 14 Pasquin, Peter, pseud.

First edition. Oblong quarto (26 x 37cm). With six hand coloured full-page lithographs, each with six humorous vignettes, in publisher's printed wrappers front & rear. The first three plates with a very small upper-margin stain. Final plate with small upper-margin closed tear & slight crease. Otherwise a quite excellent copy, the front wrapper with chipped lower corner, rear wrapper neatly laid down with some loss to upper & lower margins, but not affecting printed area. Notwithstanding these minor defects an excellent clean copy of a scarce Alken item, occasionally seen bound with other Alken works but rarely in its original wrappers and missed by most of the standard bibliographers, with only four Wordcat locations, Huntingdon, Brown & Yale in the U.S & Auckland in N.Z. and none in the UK or Europe. Contemporary ownership inscription to upper front wrapper. [Siltzer 71; De Ricci 14].