Oxford by Attributed (3 results)

Hardcover. Octavo, xxix, 125 pages. In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is yellow with black print. Dust jacket has light edge wear. Price clipped. Boards in blue cloth. Light wear to spine caps. Text block has name in ink on front flyleaf, marginal notation in ink on pages 90-91. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece. Text in Latin and English on facing pages. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column N. 1385914. FP New Rockville Stock.

Condition: Good. Print: 16.5 x 12 cm. Plate: 19 x 16.5 cm. Paper: 25 x 22 cm. Spot in right margin.Forgery purporting to be a trade-card for James Figg, prize fighter and instructor in sword and quarter-staff; portrait of Figg standing full-length, one hand on his hip, the other on the hilt of his sword, with another man to left of him holding a quarter-staff, in a raised fighting ring with spectators; in a decorative border with crossed swords above, a man with a sword to either side and an inscription plaque with weapons below. The plates were bought by the publisher Baldwin, Cradock and Joy at the Boydell sale in 1818. The Works of William Hogarth as published by Baldwin, Cradock and Joy in 1822 with the original plates restored by James Heath, engraver to His Majesty. The Heath edition was the last to print directly from Hogarth's original engraved plates.

Willdey's map of Oxford Engraved map. A rare map of Oxford with a unique design. George Willdey (?1671-1737) was a flamboyant London shopkeeper and self-publicist. His principal business was as a toy-man and seller of luxury goods, jewellery, gold and silver trinkets, and china. However, he was perhaps the first mapseller to widen the appeal of maps from an intellectual elite to the general public; the interesting shape and 'fun facts' on the present example show his attempts to broaden their appeal. Willdey's map of Oxford was part of a series of separately issued maps showing countries across Europe, as well as London, Oxford and Cambridge. This series is most commonly attributed to Samuel Parker, on the grounds that the map of England and Wales bears his signature, and several other maps show his distinctive style. All of these maps are formatted in the same unique way, with the central image contained in an oval set against a dark background, and all four corners containing three roundels of text. The black borders are most rare because of the amount of work required to create large black areas by engraving lines. This map is extremely rare. There are two known composite atlases, compiled around 1721 and 1790, which contain Willdey's map of Oxford, but we have otherwise been unable to trace any further examples.