Quizem Caleb (4 results)
Published by Thomas Tegg, 1809
- Hardcover
Seller: Arader Galleries of Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.Arader Galleries of Philadelphia, PA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Cherry red leather bordered in gold with 5 raised ribs fold out color illustration in front plus other color illustrations throughout the contents and pages all vg but boards becoming Dis- attached.
More imagesPublished by Thomas Tegg, London, 1809
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bagatelle Books, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.Bagatelle Books
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Condition: Used - Fine
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octodecimo. 4 x 6.25 in. 104 pp. Fine in the original red morocco with pristine gilt titling and decor. The binding and boards are firm and in terrific shape. The pages are clean and free of foxing, except for a single pencil notation on the…front free endpaper. This copy contains a fold-out frontis piece and 27 hand-colored plates by Rowlandson. This copy is housed in a red cloth fall-down-back box with a leather spine. A collection of humorous letters coupled with color plates.
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Seller: Nangle Rare Books, Dorchester, United KingdomNangle Rare Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hand-coloured folding frontispiece engraved by Thomas Rowlandson after Henry Bunbury. Also with hand-coloured vignette title of a rider falling from Pegasus, and 26 further hand-coloured plates by Rowlandson after H. Bunbury and others. Thomas Tegg, 1809. Small 8vo. 104 pp. 19thC c…loth-backed marbled paper covered boards. [Not in Abbey or Tooley.] Very scarce.
More imagesPublished by London: Thomas Tegg, 1809, 1809
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
Contact seller5-star seller"Esteemed on Account of its Humorous Plates by Rowlandson" Rare In the Original Printed Boards [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, engraver]. QUISEM, Caleb (pseud.). The Annals of Sporting. London: Thomas Tegg, 1809. First edition. Twelvemo (6 3/4 x 4 in; 171 x 105 mm). [10], 104 pp., untrimmed. Hand-colored fold-out frontispiece engraved by T…homas Rowlandson after Henry Bunbury, hand-colored vignette title of a rider falling from Pegasus, and twenty-seven hand-colored etched plates including folding frontispiece) by Thomas Rowlandson after H. Bunbury,George Moutard Woodward, and possibly others. Publisher's original printed boards, expertly and almost invisibly rebacked with the original spine laid down. A superb copy, rare in the original printed boards. Housed in a fleece-lined black pebbled-cloth drop-back box. The plates include: "The Bucephalus Riding Academy for grown Gentlemen" (frontispiece); "How to Vault from the Saddle;" "The True Method of sitting on a Horse Mathematically Delineated;" "How a Man may Shoot his own Wig;" "The Maid of Mim;" "Costume of Hogs Norton" (two plates); "Game Wigs" (two plates); "Hounds" (two plates); "Mathematical Horsemanship" (six plates); "Fashionable Furniture at Hogs Norton" (two plates); and "The Bailiffs Hunt" (eight plates). Commonly rebound, the book is rather rare in the publisher's boards (original price 10s. 6d). The identity of "Caleb Quizem" has yet to be determined; he appears to have written only one other book, Economy: a Pindaric Tale in Three Parts (1811). "First edition of a coloured-plate Sporting-book, which is esteemed on account of its humorous plates by Rowlandson. Written in the form of 16 letters to, and answers by Mr. C. Quizem, Spelt Quisem on wrap [and boards]" (Schwerdt). Not found in Abbey, Tooley, nor, surprisingly, Siltzer. Schwerdt II, pp. 119-120 (rebound). Grego, Rowlandson the Caricaturist, p. 178. Falk, p. 216. Grolier, Rowlandson, 63.
