Smith Engravers (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Happy Hour Stories; Color Litho on cover; woodcuts in text; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 62 pages; 1870 D. Lothrop & Co. Boston. "38 & 40 Cornhill" possibly printed circa 1880's. Small format 24mo HC in original decorative red cloth with spine unlettered, as issued. Color lithograph illustration mounted to upper board inside decorative panel and borders in black with series title decoratively in black. Illustrated with woodcut frontis and plates, head and tailpieces and a woodcut tableau on the title page. Engraved by Kilburn, Rudd, etc. One page of publisher ads at rear. Trace silverfish scaling to the cloth rear board. 1882 gift inscription penciled to front endpage. Solid and generally neat. VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Color Litho on cover; woodcuts in text; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 62 pages; 1870 D. Lothrop & Co. Boston. "38 & 40 Cornhill" possibly printed circa 1874. Small format 24mo HC in original decorative red cloth with titles embossed in blind to a decorative gilt field at spine. Color lithograph illustration mounted to upper board inside decorative panel and borders in black. Illustrated with woodcut frontis and plates, head and tailpieces and a woodcut tableau on the title page. Engraved by Kilburn, Rudd, etc. Bright clean copy with just mild shelf evidence to externals and no marks. Two pages of publisher ads at rear. Uncommon. VG+.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. F. T. Merrill, Mary B. Smith, F. H. Hayden, and F. E. Wright (illustrators); Andrew, Kilburn and Seaverns (engravers) (illustrator). Handsome Victorian volume with decorative scroll work, stamped floral designs in a magnificent green, red and gilt pattern; gilt lettering; gilt page edges on all sides. Illustrated including frontis portrait of Browning with facsimile inscription. Binding is tight but boards with heavy wear and light damp staining to the edges, edges worn; pages with age toning and light staining.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Galaxy Publishing Company, Engravers (illustrator). Circa 1870s, sized about 8 x 10.5 inches, overall sharp and bright. Suitable for framing.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Homer Lee & Company, NY, Engravers (illustrator). Circa 1870s, sized about 8 x 10.5 inches, engraved by Homer Lee & Company, NY, overall sharp and bright. Suitable for framing.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Homer Lee & Company, NY, Engravers (illustrator). Circa 1870s, sized about 8 x 10.5 inches, engraved by Homer Lee & Company, NY, overall sharp and bright. Suitable for framing.

Condition: Good. Engraving. 22.5 x 28.5 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Light foxing in the margin areas. A few, short tears along top sheet edge.

Copper-plate engraving, 9 7/8" x 14 15/16", plus margins. A scarce and very fine engraved view of Harvard, based on a painting by early American view and landscape painter Alvin Fisher. This evocative 1820s engraving depicts the campus from the south, showing the six halls that constituted the campus at the time: Massachusetts Hall, Harvard Hall, Stoughton Hall, Holworthy Hall, and University Hall, each of which is identified in print just below the image. The scene is animated by students on the grounds, one throwing something to another from an open window on the second floor of Massachusetts Hall, others horsing about under a tree, etc., capturing something of the madcap youthful energy of college life. A variety of rather lively, mainly coniferous trees appears in the foreground. On May 1st, 1823 Cummings and Hilliard published a pair of views after paintings by Alvan Fisher, the view offered here and North East View of the Several Halls of Harvard College, engraved by C.C. Torrey. These views were preceded by three other large format views of Harvard: an engraving after William Burgis entitled A Prospect of the Colleges in Cambridge, New England, published in 1725 and issued again in 1743, an engraving by Paul Revere after Joshua Chadwick entitled A Westerly View of the Colleges in Cambridge, New England, published in 1768, and an engraving by Henry W. Snyder after an anonymous painting entitled View of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, published in 1820. The Burgis and Revere views are virtually unobtainable, and the Snyder and Fisher views are both quite rare. Alvin Fisher (1792-1863) was born in Needham, Massachusetts and, at any early age, moved with his family to nearby Dedham, where he resided for the rest of his life. At eighteen, Fisher apprenticed himself to John Ritto Penniman, a Boston artist specializing in decorative painting and portraits. In 1815, Fisher opened a studio in Boston, and found considerable success traveling widely, painting landscapes, a relatively new theme at the time, and portraits. A lovely, early view of Harvard. REFERENCES: Stokes & Haskell P. 1822--E-142; Stauffer 109. CONDITION: Good, margins lightly soiled, paper pulp reinforcement to margins on verso.