Reflecting the Times

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1 Reflecting the Times

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4 Contents part 1 - NiNeteeNth century english illustrated Books 006 part 2 - the age of pochoir 104 item 26 - CRUIKSHANK, George. (Russians in the Napoleonic Wars). 4 Shapero Rare Books

5 IntroduCtIon Most of the books in the present catalogue are from the library of a distinguished British collector. Assembled over the past forty years, they were selected with great care and an eye for original condition where possible. To this end copies were sought far and wide including from some of the great collections that went to auction in the U.K. and the U.S.A. during this period. The result has been a collection with distinguished provenances and many copies in original boards or parts. We are proud to offer the present selection and believe that it presents a wonderful opportunity to buy outstanding examples of some of the finest illustrated books of the past 200 years. Julian MacKenzie julian@shapero.com Shapero Rare Books 5

6 NiNeteeNth century english illustrated Books 1. ACKerMAnn, rudolph. The history of the colleges of Winchester, Eton and Westminster; with the Charter-House, the schools of St. Paul s, Merchant Taylors, Harrow and Rugby, and the free-school of Christ s Hospital. R. Ackermann, London, the finest pictorial record of the NiNe most famous schools in england, this was the fifth of Ackermann s sumptuously illustrated volumes of English topography. The artists include Pugin, Nash and Westall, while the engraving was carried out by such masters of aquatint as Stadler, Buck and Havell, among others. The plates are chiefly of interior views with illustrations of gowned scholars. A fine, wide-margined copy. First edition. Large 4to (35 x 28.5 cm. approx.). 48 finely hand-coloured aquatint plates, issue with plate 23 in third state (masters behatted) and plate 26 in third state; some mild foxing, offsetting from plates. Modern half morocco, spine in 6 compartments, gilt lettered direct to second and fourth, others with gilt ornament. Adams 116; Abbey Scenery 440; Tooley (1973), 3; Prideaux p126; Martin-Hardie pp ,000 [ref: 96202] 6 Shapero Rare Books

7 2. AlFred, henry J. Views on the Thames. Marlow Weir, near Marlow Bridge, Bisham Abbey, Temple Lock, Hurley, Harleyford. Henry J. Alfred, London, A rare suite of hand-coloured lithographs illustrating one of the most beautiful stretches of the Thames. Well preserved. An excellent copy. First edition. Landscape folio (51 x 35.5 cm). 6 hand-coloured lithograph plates. Original wrappers, modern blue half calf, marbled sides, red morocco lettering piece. Abbey, Scenery 437 (not coloured); Bobins ,500 [ref: 92460] Shapero Rare Books 7

8 3. AlKen, henry. Driving Discoveries. S. and J. Fuller, London, Beautifully presented. A wonderful comic sequence showing the potential pitfalls of driving a carriage. Rare: only two copies are listed on the OCLC. Provenance: Bookplate of Lord Harry Nathan of Churt. Landscape folio (37.5 x 26.5 cm). Complete set of 7 hand-coloured etchings with 1817 watermarks (no title). Later scarlet morocco, gilt lettered direct to spine and upper cover, red morocco-backed grey cloth slipcase with cloth chemise. Siltzer pp.57 & 69; Tooley 25. 3,000 [ref: 95985] 8 Shapero Rare Books

9 4. AlKen, henry. Sporting scrap book. McLean, London, [1824]. a wonderful evocation of a BygoNe age with fine plates depicting country sports - racing, fishing, hunting; occupations - farriery, brick-making; and country types. An attractive volume. - Schwerdt. The smaller of two formats of this work issued without priority. First edition. 4to (29 x 20.5 cm), 50 hand-coloured plates captioned within the plate. Uncut in original red boards; rebacked, original paper label to upper cover. Siltzer p71; Schwerdt, I p25. 1,250 [ref: 95619] Shapero Rare Books 9

10 5. AlKen, henry. Symptoms of Being Amused. Volume one [all published]. Thos. McLean, London, A handsome copy of this work containing nearly 200 humorous sporting, military, domestic, and other designs, engraved on 42 finely coloured plates. A second volume was started and about a dozen plates were produced, but these are almost unknown. Provenance: Bookplate of Lord Gwydyr, black letter ink-stamps to initial blank of Sophia Campbell, Gwydyr s mother, and her father, F. W. Campbell of Barbreck. First edition. Landscape folio. Hand-coloured etched title and 41 hand-coloured plates by and after Alken. Contemporary reddish brown morocco, marbled paper onlays to covers within gilt floral roll. Mellon/Podeschi 114; Schwerdt I, p. 27; Siltzer; Tooley 57. 1,950 [ref: 95986] 10 Shapero Rare Books

11 6. AlKen, henry, IllustrAtor. Real life in London; or, the rambles and adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and his cousin, the Hon. Tom. Dashiell, through the metropolis; exhibiting a living picture of fashionable characters, manners and amusements in high and low life. Jones, London, a fine, clean set in a very handsome BiNdiNg. A tremendously popular work which provides a vivid evocation of Regency London and what a man about town might get up to - essentially, gaming, dining, drinking and dancing. There are innumerable variations of the plates (Tooley) by Alken, Dighton, Rowlandson et al. Tooley regards this work as an imitation of Egan s Life In London and though not the equal of the latter, he believes, it has considerable merit, serves as a foil to its illustrious contemporary and is an interesting and useful guide to the social history of the period. First edition, third issue. 2 volumes. 8vo. Hand-coloured aquatint title dated 1821, x including letterpress title, [3]-656 pp. with 18 hand-coloured aquatint plates, original printed publisher s label pasted opposite terminal leaf; hand-coloured aquatint title dated 1821, letterpress title with vignette, ix, [3] pp. advertisements, 668 pp. with 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates including optional plate at p. 407, original printed publisher s label pasted opposite terminal leaf. Full red morocco gilt by Root & Son, covers with gilt dot border and double gilt fillets enclosing a geometric panel with gilt dancing figure to corners and gilt centre piece of a dancing couple, panelled spine in 6 compartments, gilt lettered direct to second, others with alternate gilt centrepieces of playing cards and dancing figure, raised bands, top edge gilt, others uncut. Tooley ,500 [ref: 95673] Shapero Rare Books 11

12 7. AlKen, henry, IllustrAtor; ChArles JAMes Apperley. Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire; High Sheriff for the Counties of Salop and Merioneth, and major in the North Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry. With notices of the hunting, shooting, driving, racing, extravagant exploits, by Nimrod. Ackermann, London, classic hunting adventures of the high sheriff. The very scarce first edition in the original cloth. Brilliant impressions of Henry Alken s plates. Two of the plates, Blood and the bull-dog and Mytton masters the savage dog, are not found in later editions. Between the years 1805 and 1820 Apperley devoted himself to fox-hunting. From 1813 to 1819 he was the agent for his brother-in-law s estates and lived at Tŷ Gwyn, Llanbeblig. Around 1821, under the pseudonym of Nimrod, Apperley began to contribute a series of articles to The Sporting Magazine that covered horse races, hunt meets and other sporting events. His references to the personalities of the people he knew or met at such events helped to double the circulation of the magazine within a few years. Mr. Pittman, the proprietor of The Sporting Magazine, gave Nimrod a handsome salary and defrayed all the expenses of his tours. He also gave Nimrod a stud of hunters. After Pittman s death, the proprietors of the magazine sued Apperley for the money that had been advanced. To avoid imprisonment, Apperley moved to Calais in 1830, where he supported himself by writing. Provenance: Herman Le Roy Edgar. First edition in book form. 8vo. iv, 110 pp. with 12 hand-coloured plates including frontispiece; bookplate on front paste-down. Original brown cloth, title in gilt on upper cover; neat repairs to spine extremities, maroon moroccobacked folding box. Abbey Life 385; Franklin 43-4; Schwerdt I, 38; Siltzer 73; Tooley 67. 2,250 [ref: 95571] 12 Shapero Rare Books

13 8. AlKen, henry, IllustrAtor; [ChArles JAMes Apperley], nimrod. The Life of A Sportsman. Rudolph Ackermann, London, first edition, first issue, in the original cloth, considered by many to be the premier colour plate sporting book in the XIX century. (Tooley) Provenance: Arthur W.H. Hay Drummond and Albert Henry Wiggin (armorial bookplates). 8vo. Engraved title, vi including printed title, [1] p. contents, [1] p. list of illustrations, 402 pp. with 35 hand-coloured plates with tissues guards, 4 mounted onto captioned sheets as issued, 5 ff. advertisements; occasional minor finger-marking and other marginal marking, bookplates and tipped-in catalogue description on front endpaper. Original blue blind-tooled cloth blocked in gilt to spine and upper cover, expertly reinforced at spine ends, gilt edges, presented in modern morocco-backed drop-back box with hunting motifs in gilt compartments. Dixon 111: one of the finest of the books illustrated by Alken ; Podeschi 167; Schwerdt 1:36; Siltzer 73; Tooley 65. 1,950 [ref: 95648] Shapero Rare Books 13

14 9. AlKen, henry, IllustrAtor; [robert smith surtees]. The analysis of the hunting field; being A Series of Sketches of the Principal Characters that compose one. Rudolph Ackermann, London, a fine, Bright, sharp copy. There is a peculiar charm of simplicity in the Analysis of the hunting field, a series of sketches of the principal characters which compose such an assemblage - touches to show how the humour of the individual becomes the humour of the field. (Siltzer) First edition, second issue. Royal 8vo. Half-title, engraved coloured title, printed title, [1] p. contents, [1] p. preface, 326 pp. with 6 hand-coloured plates, all second or later state (dated November 19th) with tissue guards, [4] pp. advertisments; tissue guards browned causing resultant browning to margins of plates, some foxing, light toning to page-edges. Original red cloth blocked & lettered in gilt to spine and upper cover; some very minor rubbing and darkening. Podeschi 177; Schwerdt II p.232; Siltzer 45; Tooley [ref: 95647] 10. AlKen, henry, IllustrAtor; robert smith surtees. Jorrocks s Jaunts and Jollities. Rudolph Ackermann, London, Second edition, the most valuable on account of alken s superb illustrations. (Schwerdt) A series of picaresque comic tales, originally published as individual stories in Surtees New Sporting Magazine between 1831 and 1834 and collected in book form in The plates are replete with detail and brilliantly coloured, as can be seen clearly in this well-preserved copy. Provenance: Pencil inscription by R. C. Colistour (?). 8vo. Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece with tissue guard, hand-coloured aquatint title, vi including printed title, contents with list of illustrations to verso, 358 pp. with 13 hand-coloured aquatint plates with tissue guards, 8 pp. advertisements. Original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and blind, all edges gilt, preserved in a custom red crushed morocco box and silk chemise; label to inside of box. Suppressed plate of Jorrocks in matching chemise. 1,250 [ref: 95941] 14 Shapero Rare Books

15 11. CerVAntes, MIguel; richard WestAll, IllustrAtor. The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha. For Hurst, Robinson, & Co, London, finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his BraiN dried up and he went completely out of his mind... Originally published in two volumes in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age, if not the entire Spanish literary canon. The present edition is illustrated throughout with black and white plates after Westall by Charles Heath. 4 volumes. Small 8vo. Early 20th century full red morocco, gilt extra by Bayntun of Bath, all edges gilt. 1,400 [ref: 94670] 12. [ChIVAlry]. The tournament, or days of chivalry. William Clowes for William Sams, London, A fresh copy, in a lovely binding, of this uncommon poem illustrated with aquatint plates, finely coloured at the time. A great example of English aquatint art at its height, and of the revival of chivalry associated with the XIX century Romantic movement. 8vo (23.5 x 14.6cm). Half-title, 24 aquatint plates with contemporary hand-colour; lower blank margin of pl. 23 a bit shorter. Later polished calf by Riviere, gilt rules to covers, spine in 6 compartments, red lettering piece with gilt lettering to second, others richly gilt, raised bands, preserved in modern quarter red morocco box and slipcase; a bit rubbed. 1,250 [ref: 87978] Shapero Rare Books 15

16 13. [ChIVAlry]. KottenKAMp, FrAnz; A. lowy (translator). History of chivalry and ancient armour, with descriptions of the feudal system, the usages of knighthood, the tournament, and trials by single combat, translated from the German. Willis & Sotheran, London, a scarce excellent example of the genre with highly finished coloured plates. From the late XVIII century onwards there was a great revival of interest in chivalry and medieval tournaments. This was associated with the Romantic Movement, which gained support as a reaction against the Industrial Revolution. Several fine colour plate books were published in the early XIX century by Meyrick and others, and tournaments included that at Eglington in First edition in English. Landscape 4to. 62 hand-coloured lithograph plates, some folding. Original blue cloth gilt; covers a little rubbed and worn. 3,500 [ref: 90033] 16 Shapero Rare Books

17 14. CroWQuIll, AlFred. Absurdities: In Prose and Verse. For Thomas Hurst and Co., London, a remarkably well-preserved example. Alfred Crowquill was the pseudonym of the Forrester brothers, Charles Robert ( ) and Alfred Henry ( ), who between them wrote and illustrated a wide variety of satirical articles, comedy picture books, albums and books for children. Their publications were extremely popular and historically significant for their resistance to creating clear distinctions between middle class and working class art. In the present work, the illustrations are Alfred s while the text is Charles s. First edition. 8vo. Half-title, xii including hand-coloured frontispiece and printed title with vignette, 12 hand-coloured plates, 132 pp. Original printed paper boards, uncut, preserved in a custom orange cloth solander box; neat restoration to spine. 600 [ref: 95938] Shapero Rare Books 17

18 InsCrIbed by CruIKshAnK 15. CruIKshAnK, george. The bachelor s own book, being the progress of Mr. Lambkin, (Gent.) in the persuit of pleasure and amusememt, and also, in search of health and happiness. D. Bogue, London, the two earliest issues of this humourous work, the rare hand-coloured issues, the first inscribed By cruikshank. This work has been beautifully preserved and the illustrations remain remarkably clear and brightly coloured. They follow the adventures of one Mr. Lambkin, a gentleman who enters the world upon the very best possible terms with himself and sets about going a-courting. An inscription appears on the preliminary blank of the first issue and reads, To John Auldjo Esq. with best regards of George Cruikshank. It is signed with the artist s characteristic flourish. Auldjo and Cruikshank collaborated on an 1835 publication concerning a visit to Constantinople. The first issue features a misspelling of pursuit in the title; this mistake is corrected in the second issue. Provenance: John Auldjo ( ), geologist and alpinist, author of Narrative of an ascent to the summit of Mont Blanc (1828), considered a classic of alpine literature. First edition. Landscape 8vo. Etched pictorial title, 24 etched illustrations on 12 sheets, all hand-coloured. Publisher s cloth-backed wrappers with colour illustration to upper cover; light soiling and minor rubbing; and the second issue of the same, in similar condition; 2 volumes presented together in modern morocco-backed cloth box. 1,800 [ref: 95679] 18 Shapero Rare Books

19 16. CruIKshAnK, george. The Bottle [and] The Drunkard s Children. A Sequel to The Bottle. Published for the artist, by David Bogue, London, [ ]. a collection of cautionary cartoons described By dickens as very powerful. Published in the same year that Cruikshank himself swore a vow of sobriety, and inspired by The Rake s Progress, The Bottle and The Drunkard s Children chart the downward spiral of a Victorian drinker from his very first glass all the way through to his own ruin and that of his children. The two volumes caused a sensation on publication, and pirate copies, merchandise and theatrical adaptations appeared within days; at one point, versions of the work could be seen on 8 London stages at once. The Bottle and The Drunkard s Children are examples of work produced as part of the Temperance movement, which arose as a reaction against the high levels of drinking among the urban working class. Cruikshank had firsthand experience of addiction to alcohol: his father and brother were alcoholics. The present work clearly expresses the artist s conviction that alcohol leads to poverty and crime, and that total abstinence is the only way to avoid these dreadful evils. First edition. 2 volumes in 1. Folio. First part with 2 suites of the 8 plates (one suite tinted lithographs on superior paper the other the standard suite); second part standard edition with 8 plates; some minor finger-marking. Related ephemera loosely inserted. Original printed boards; darkened, edge-wear, rebacked in later straight-grain morocco. Cohn 194 & ,800 [ref: 95901] Shapero Rare Books 19

20 FIne set In original WrAppers 17. CruIKshAnK, george. George Cruikshank s Omnibus. [Tilt & Bogue], London, [ ]. an exceptionally fine set in the original wrappers. First issued in nine monthly parts between May 1841 and January 1842, George Cruikshank s Omnibus is best summarised by its own latin motto, which appears on the front of each of its nine parts: De omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis translates loosely as about everything and more. The magazine is packed full of poetry, short stories, essays and articles by various writers of Cruikshank s circle, among them William Makepeace Thackeray. In addition to the engraved plates by Cruikshank, the present work features 78 woodcuts, the majority of them also by Cruikshank. Provenance: Bookseller s stick of John Menzies of 61 Princes Street, Edinburgh. First edition. 9 parts. 8vo. Contents to inside of front wrapper, [10] pp. advertisements, ii, [1]-32 pp., some unopened, 3 engraved plates with tissue guards; contents to inside of front wrapper, [8] pp. advertisements, pp., 3 engraved plates with tissue guards; contents to inside of front wrapper, [4] pp. advertisements, pp., 2 engraved plates with tissue guards; contents to inside of front wrapper, [4] pp. advertisements, pp., 2 engraved plates with tissue guards; contents to inside of front wrapper, small slip advertisement inset, pp., 3 engraved plates with tissue guards; contents to inside of front wrapper, small slip advertisement inset, [4] pp. advertisements, pp., 2 engraved plates with tissue guards; contents to inside of front wrapper, [8] pp. advertisements, pp., 2 engraved plates with tissue guards; contents to inside of front wrapper, [4] pp. advertisements, pp. 3 engraved plates with tissue guards, [8] pp. advertisements; contents to inside of front wrapper, [4] pp. advertisements, pp., half-title, title, [2] pp. contents of entire work, list of steel etchings, list of wood-cuts, 2 engraved plates with tissue guards. Original white pictorial wrappers, 4 with bookseller s small sticker to foot of upper wrapper, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box; very slight darkening to some wrappers, a fine set. Cohn ,250 [ref: 95676] 20 Shapero Rare Books

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22 In original parts 18. CruIKshAnK, george. The Humourist: A collection of entertaining tales, anecdotes, repartees, witty sayings, epigrams, bons mots, jeu d esprits, etc. Carefully selected. J. Robins and Co., London, of great rarity in parts. cohn writes that it was long thought that only the first volume was issued in parts. it is certaily clear that he had Never seen a complete set in parts and also writes that even the ten parts of the first volume in original wrappers is unknown. the present copy, all in original parts, all with original wrappers save for six issues, is probably the finest copy available. Described by Richard A. Vogler in Graphic Works of George Cruikshank as the artist s earliest important etched Book illustrations, this witty collection offers the following advice on the book trade:...the most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some do lords, learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance. The vignette title page for volume 4 shows a grotesque dandy holding a cocked hat, grinning at the audience from a stage whose proscenium arch is decorated with swagged curtains and comic masks. The illustrations preserve that sense of theater: each scene takes place within a frame surmounted by emblematic props aspiring to a pedimental shape and supported by a base on which the title is inscribed, along with additional scenes and props. (Patten, George Cruikshank s Life, Times, and Art, I, p. 190). Beautifully presented. First edition. 4 volumes in 38 original parts. Complete with 40 hand-coloured etchings. [1]-24 pp. including handcoloured engraved frontispiece, engraved title with hand-coloured vignette and printed title for vol. 1; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; 2 hand-coloured engraved frontispieces, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp., [2] pp. list of plates, [1]-12 pp. including printed title to vol. 2; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; handcoloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; pp.; engraved title for vol. 2 with hand-coloured vignette, engraved title for vol. 3 with hand-coloured vignette, pp., [1]-20 pp. including [2] pp. list of plates and printed title to vol. 3; 2 hand-coloured engraved frontispieces, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; pp., [2] pp. list of plates, [1]-12 pp. including printed title to vol. 4; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; engraved title for vol. 4 with hand-coloured vignette, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, pp., [2] pp. list of plates; some edges slightly torn or curling, with age discolouration, no damage to text. Original blue paper wrappers printed in black (parts 1, 2, 9, 15 and 31 in contemporary grey paper wrappers), preserved in custom red morocco solander and chemise. A superb set. Cohn ,000 [ref: 95955] 22 Shapero Rare Books

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24 plates In 2 states 19. CruIKshAnK, george. The Humourist: a collection of entertaining tales, anecdotes, epigrams, &c. John C. Nimmo, London, Described by Richard A. Vogler in Graphic Works of George Cruikshank as the artist s earliest important etched Book illustrations, this witty collection offers the following advice on the book trade:...the most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some do lords, learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance. This particular, very good, set is number 13 of only 70 copies in which all of the plates are present in both coloured and uncoloured states. 4 volumes. 8vo. Half-titles, the 40 etched plates including titles all in 2 states, coloured and plain, Original dark blue cloth, printed paper spine labels, top edges gilt, others uncut; boards and edges of spines lightly rubbed, a fine set. Cf. Cohn 419 for first edition. 800 [ref: 96172] 24 Shapero Rare Books

25 In original boards 20. CruIKshAnK, george. The Humourist: A collection of entertaining tales, anecdotes, repartees, witty sayings, epigrams, bons mots, jeu d esprits, etc. Carefully selected. J. Robins and Co. London, a remarkably fine set in excellent condition, rare in original Boards. Described by Richard A. Vogler in Graphic Works of George Cruikshank as the artist s earliest important etched Book illustrations, this witty collection offers the following advice on the book trade:...the most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some do lords, learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance. The vignette title page for volume 4 shows a grotesque dandy holding a cocked hat, grinning at the audience from a stage whose proscenium arch is decorated with swagged curtains and comic masks. The illustrations preserve that sense of theater: each scene takes place within a frame surmounted by emblematic props aspiring to a pedimental shape and supported by a base on which the title is inscribed, along with additional scenes and props. (Patten, George Cruikshank s Life, Times, and Art, I, p. 190). First edition. 4 volumes: volume I second issue; volumes III-IV first issue. 8vo. 40 hand-coloured etchings including 4 pictorial titles. Publisher s pictorial boards, preserved in later cloth box with faux spines; some darkening to spines, a fine set. Cohn ,200 [ref: 96173] Shapero Rare Books 25

26 original WrAppers 21. CruIKshAnK, george. Illustrations of Don Quixote in a Series of Fifteen Plates. Charles Tilt, London, the highlights of don Quixote, Beautifully illustrated By cruikshank and presented in an attractive Box. These 15 etched plates are accompanied by captions and the corresponding chapters from Smollett s English translation of Cervantes novel. This is the first separately published edition of the illustrations, which had previously appeared in volumes XIII - XV of Roscoe s Novelist s Library, London, This copy comes from the collection of the American financier Carl H. Pforzheimer Sr. ( ). Though the collection, now housed in the New York Public Library, is mostly dedicated to the works of Shelley and his circle, it comprises around 25,000 books, manuscripts and letters in total. Provenance: Stamp of Carl H. Pforzheimer collection. 8vo. Title, [30] ff. with 15 etched plates with paper guards. Original printed wrappers preserved in modern cloth drop-back box; minor wear and dust-soiling, lower wrapper cleanly detached, upper cover working loose, stamp to inside lower wrapper. Cf Cohn ,750 [ref: 95950] 26 Shapero Rare Books

27 22. CruIKshAnK, george. London Characters. Joseph Robins, London, 1827 [ but 1906]. charming suite of engravings, in fine condition, with mysterious origins. According to Cohn, this issue was put together in about 1906 from loose plates in the Trueman collection (with, in some instances, facsimile plates struck from the original copper plates). It is a charming suite of engravings and includes many memorable images of London traders and fashionable characters such as the Tax Gatherer, Sailor s Lass, Fishmonger and Barber. The true first issue is rare; this later version is, at the very, least uncommon. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Sir Charles Philip Huntington, 3rd Baronet ( ), second son of the 1st Baronet Huntington of the Clock House, Chelsea. 8vo. Title, 24 hand-coloured etched plates with tissue guards. original printed boards, preserved in green cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase; slightly rubbed, bookplate to verso of upper board. Cohn [ref: 95903] Shapero Rare Books 27

28 In original parts 23. CruIKshAnK, george. My Sketch Book. Published for the artist by Charles Tilt, London, first edition of the first issue of cruikshank s personal sketchbook, rare in original parts. Somewhere between a sketchbook and a journal, the present work contains Cruikshank s miscellaneous musings and doodles, featuring one-off illustrated puns of the kind now seen in publications like The New Yorker, cartoon-y depictions of specific occasions and in particular, practice sketches in which Cruikshank perfects his instantly recognisable technique for drawing humans. 9 parts. Landscape folio. 37 etched plates (4 per part plus an engraved title in vol. VI), all hand-coloured, each with tissue guard; some darkening and minor soiling. Original pictorial wrappers, housed in full red morocco solander with paper inner chemise; fraying to some corners and spines. Cohn ,800 [ref: 95902] 28 Shapero Rare Books

29 original WrAppers 24. CruIKshAnK, george. Our Own Times. Bradbury & Evans, London, rare in original wrappers. This monthly serial was first published on 1 April 1846 but ceased production after just 4 issues; there is some speculation that Cruikshank fell out with Bradbury & Evans after taking his work to the Fleet Street publisher David Bogue. The present edition features pieces by writers and humourists including Angus B Reach and Gilbert Abbott à Beckett. In addition to 4 full-page etchings, the work also contains 35 glyphographs and 6 woodcuts, the majority of them embedded within the text. These illustrations demonstrate prescient issues of the day, such as the moral and intellectual education of Victorian youths and what Cruikshank believed to be the encroaching evil of industrialisation, in the artist s typically searing fashion. First edition. 8vo. 4 parts (all published): advertisements, contents and list of plates to inside of wrappers, etched plate, [1]-32 pp.; advertisements and contents to inside of wrappers, etched plate with tissue guard, pp. [33]-64; advertisements and contents to inside of wrappers, [2] pp. advertisment, etched plate, [65]-96 pp.; advertisements and contents to inside of wrappers, etched plate, [97]-128 pp.; some minor creasing and dust-soiling. Publisher s pictorial wrappers, preserved in later cloth chemise and half morocco solander. Cohn [ref: 95968] Shapero Rare Books 29

30 25. CruIKshAnK, george. Points of Humour. C. Baldwyn, London, a charming collection of humourous anecdotes and equally humourous illustrations, excellently preserved. An early and remarkably fine work by Cruikshank of which William Makepeace Thackeray wrote: The collector of humorous designs cannot fail to have them in his portfolio, for they contain (in about a score of copperplates) some of the very best efforts of Mr. Cruikshank s genius...[a]ll the effects are perfectly given, and the expression as good as it could be in the most delicate engraving on steel. The artist s style, too, was then completely formed: and for our part, we should say that we preferred his manner of 1825 to any other which he has adopted since. Provenance: Bookplate of Caroline & Hudson Poole. First edition. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo. [2] pp. title, 48 pp. with 10 hand-coloured etched plates and 8 woodcuts within text; [vi] including [2] pp. title, [2] pp. advertisments, 56 pp. with 10 hand-coloured etched plates and 12 woodcuts within text; part 1 lacks initial advertisements and part 2 lacks rear advertisements as described by Cohn. Nineteenth century blue calf, covers with gilt borders, spine in 6 compartments, red lettering pieces with gilt to second and third, others richly gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers; bookplate to front pastedown. Cohn [ref: 95956] 30 Shapero Rare Books

31 26. CruIKshAnK, george. (Russians in the Napoleonic Wars). H. Humphrey, London, cruikshank s rare sole work on russia. Perhaps to emphasise the shared revulsion felt towards the Napoleonic invaders across Europe, Cruikshank brought these Russian caricatures to an English audience, leaving the Russian text in place, but generally exaggerating the grotesqueness of the characters to his own style. The originals were mostly by Terebenev and issued in The subjects are: French Generals Retreating; French Post Extraordinary from Moscow to Paris; Napoleon s Fame; A Peasant carrying off a French cannon...; A Review of the French Troops on their returning March through Smolens; A Russian boor returning from his field sports; A Russian peasant loading a dung cart; Russians Teaching Boney to Dance; Specimens of Russians chopping blocks. Series of 9 hand-coloured engravings, 20.5 x 25.5 cm to 25 x 35 cm. Titles in original Russian and English, one also in German, all within washed borders, all trimmed to the border and remargined; slight discolouration to some borders and margins with minimal effect on plates, additional modern caption labels (some of which torn) pasted to margins of 3 plates and reverse of 3 plates. BM Satires , 12015, 12025, , 12051, 12053, 12060; Cohn 1996; 1938; 1940; 1941; 1833; 1135; 1138; 1179; ,000 [ref: 92367] Shapero Rare Books 31

32 In the rare CAnVAs binding 27. CruIKshAnK, george & WIllIAM heath, IllustrAtor; John bowring. Minor Morals for Young People. Illustrated in Tales and Travels. Whittaker and Co. [vol. 3, Edinburgh: William Tait], London, a rare work, even rarer for its BeiNg BouNd in publisher s canvas. the first issue was in canvas Boards, of which there are very few copies (cohn). Volume I is particularly scarce and is rarely found in the original issue. Indeed, an undated, typewritten note stuck to the upper pastedown and signed AWE (?) reads, This is the finest copy of the first issue I have ever seen. It is a most rare book to get in such a state. Rarer still, the present volume also contains autograph letters by Bowring dated 1824 and 1835; the former is tipped in to the recto of the beginning endpaper of volume I, the other is loosely inserted in the same place. Minor Morals follows Mr. Howard, a wise father and storyteller, as he imparts various wisdom in the form of tales with morals to his three children, Arthur, Edith and George. The book, which is illustrated with etchings by Heath and Cruikshank, was intended to be read by children and was published in three parts (separated as in the present copy) between 1834 and Sir John Bowring ( ) was an English political economist, traveller and writer, and the 4th Governor of Hong Kong. Volume III, in fact, focuses on the lessons that can be derived from Oriental History. Provenance: Armorial ex-libris bookplates of Albert M. Cohn, Cruikshank s bibliographer. First edition, first issue.3 volumes (complete). 12mo. Half-title, xii including title and etched plate in 2 states (hand-coloured and uncoloured), 262 pp. with 8 etched plates in 2 states (hand-coloured and plain); half-title, etched plate, title, dedication leaf, iv, 264 pp. with 4 etched plates, pp unopened; half-title, viii including title with portrait of Bowring bound in, [1] p. contents, [1] p. list of plates, 250 pp. with 6 etched plates with tissue guards. Publisher s cloth, preserved in modern morocco drop-back box with faux spine; volume I neatly rebacked preserving original backstrip, bookplate to all 3 front pastedowns. Cohn 87. 2,500 [ref: 95953] 32 Shapero Rare Books

33 doheney Copy In original WrAppers 28. CruIKshAnK, george; FrAnK e. smedley, editor. George Cruikshank s Magazine... David Bogue, London, a fine copy, from the library of the Best known female collector of the xx century. Publication of George Cruikshank s Magazine was halted after these two issues. It contains the first in a series of Tobacco Leaves, a series of attacks on the noxious weed. This is in keeping with Cruikshank s general shift towards moralising, as seen in works such as The Bottle and The Drunkard s Children. This copy comes from the library of Carrie Estelle Betzold Doheny ( ), one of the most renowned American collectors of the XX century, who also founded the Estelle Doheny Eye Foundation, the Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation, and the Estelle Doheny Hospital and Pavilion at St. Vincent s Medical Centre, among other philanthropic projects. Doheny s collection, at its peak, included 7000 books and 1300 manuscripts. Provenance: Ex-libris bookplate of Estelle Doheny. 2 parts (all published). 8vo. Contents to verso of upper wrapper, 8 pp. advertisements, [1]-40 pp. with 3 etched plates, 2 folding; contents to verso of upper wrapper, [16] pp. advertisements, pp. with 2 folding etched plates. Publisher s pictorial wrappers, preserved in later cloth chemise and half morocco solander; sympathetically rebacked, some fraying and creasing, light dust-soiling, bookplate to chemise. Cohn [ref: 95967] Shapero Rare Books 33

34 original parts 29. CruIKshAnK, george; gilbert Abbot À beckett, editor. George Cruikshank s Table-Book. Bradbury & Evans, London, rare in original parts. a source of great insight into life in BritaiN in the xviv century, illustrated in stunning detail. All twelve instalments of this monthly magazine, which covered an enormous range of subjects, from fashion to travel via everything in between. The present copy also includes fascinating contemporary advertisements. Stephen George Holland ( ) was the heir to Holland and Sons, the preeminent cabinet maker in Victorian England, and himself founded the cloth merchant Holland and Sherry. Provenance: Bookplate of Stephen George Holland. First edition. 12 parts, each with etched plate and illustrations. 8vo pp., 8 pp. advertisements; pp., 4 pp. advertisements; pp., 2 pp. advertisements; pp., 4 pp. advertisements, 8 pp. inset advertisements; pp., 4 pp. advertisements, lacks 2 pp. inset advertisement described by Cohn; pp., 4 pp. advertisements; pp., 4 pp.advertisements; pp., 4 pp. advertisements; pp., 4 pp. advertisements; pp., 2 pp. advertisements; pp., 4 pp. advertisements, [4] pp. catalogue of Fisher, Son & Co. s publications, [2] pp. inset advertisement; [i]-viii, pp., 4 pp. advertisements; some minor foxing. Publisher s pictorial wrappers, parts I-III gilt edges, preserved in later cloth box; a little wear to spines, bookplate to inside cover of box. A fine set. Cohn ,500 [ref: 95936] 34 Shapero Rare Books

35 30. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor. Bentley s Miscellany. Richard Bentley, London, Founded by Richard Bentley and edited by Charles Dickens during its first two years, Bentley s Miscellany in fact ran from 1837 until The volumes presented here were all edited by Dickens and include the serialisation of his second novel, Oliver Twist. They are also all illustrated by Cruikshank as well as Phiz, Buss and others. The magazine featured works by Wilkie Collins, Catharine Sedgwick, Richard Brinsley Peake, Thomas Love Peacock, William Mudford, Mrs Henry Wood, Isabella Frances Romer, The Ingoldsby Legends and Edgar Allan Poe. It was also the first publication to include cartoons by John Leech, who became a prominent Punch artist. Cohn surmises that these volumes, though originally published in great numbers, have become scarce owing to pulping after the Great War. 6 volumes. 8vo. In total 83 etched plates. Contemporary black half calf by Benjamin Fawcett of Driffield, spines in 5 compartments with gilt lettered direct to second and fourth, others richly gilt, raised bands with gilt decoration, marbled edges, purple cloth sides; rubbed. Cf. Cohn [ref: 95971] Shapero Rare Books 35

36 CoMplete set In original FrAgIle bindings 31. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor. The Comic Almanack. Tilt & Bogue, London, rare in such good condition. a complete set in fine state with Backstrips in good condition, with the advertisements, is exceedingly hard to procure, as from the Nature of the BiNdiNgs the Backs are Nearly always Badly BrokeN or missing (cohn). The Comic Almanack, an amusing look at British life and habits, was an astonishingly popular publication with a circulation of some twenty thousand copies. It provided Cruickshank with his main source of income for many years. Despite it s popularity, the survival rate of these fragile publications has been poor and complete sets, especially in fine condition as here, are rarely met with. First editions. 19 parts (complete). Small 8vo. In total 190 etched plates after George Cruikshank including hand-coloured and folding, [8] pp. catalogue including [4] pp. prospectus for The Naturalist s Library with a hand-coloured specimen plate at the end of 1837 volume. Parts 1-15 in original cream paper wrappers printed in various colours, parts in original cloth as issued, preserved in 3 separate morocco-backed slipcases and matching chemises; some wear and minor soiling, with slight fading to the cloth volumes. A fine set. Cohn ,000 [ref: 95969] 36 Shapero Rare Books

37 the benz Copy 32. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor. Fairy Library. 4 volumes, comprising Hop O My Thumb, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella and the Glass Slipper and Puss in Boots. D. Bogue [- George Routledge & Sons], London, [ ]. a fine, complete set of cruikshank s own fairy tales, internally in fine order and handsomely BouNd. Puss in Boots is extremely rare (cohn). Although Cruikshank s illustrations for the first English translation of Grimm s Fairy Tales received a great deal of praise, this foray into the world of children s fantasy proved less successful. Many, including Charles Dickens, criticised the artist for the Temperance-inspired slant he put on these traditional stories. In Cinderella, for instance, the court prepares for the ball by setting fire to its entire reserve of alcohol. It was alterations such as this that prompted Dickens to write and publish a satirical attack on Cruikshank entitled Frauds on the Fairies, in Household Words magazine in Nevertheless, there is no denying that Cruikshank s wood-cuts for all four of these fairy stories are extremely fine, and have rarely been as well-preserved as they have in the present edition. Provenance: Book collector Doris Louise Benz, whose collection was sold by Christie s in 1984 for almost one million dollars (morocco bookplate); a further unidentified bookplate, initialled AJF (?). First editions. 8vo. Blue engraved title, printed title, 32 pp. including list of illustrations, [1] p. advertisement; blue engraved title, 32 pp. including printed title and list of illustrations, [1] p. advertisement; blue engraved title, 32 pp. including printed title and list of illustrations, [1] p. advertisement; blue engraved title with note from Cruikshank To The Public to verso, 40 pp. including printed title, blue [2] pp. advertisements; in total 24 etched plates by Cruikshank, tissue guards, internally clean and bright, bookplates to front pastedowns; uniformly bound in crushed olive levant morocco by Zaehnsdorf, lettered in gilt to spines, elaborate gilt dentelles (offsetting onto fly-leaves); publisher s wrappers bound in (Puss in Boots being in the first state, the others second state). Cohn ,750 [ref: 95627] Shapero Rare Books 37

38 unique ColleCtIon of original drawings And signed etchings 33. CruIKshAnK, george, [IllustrAtor]. Rare Album [Cruikshank s Fairy Library]. [C ]. Each of the finely drawn and detailed pencil drawings (from Puss In Boots and Jack and the Beanstalk) is mounted opposite its subsequent etching; all 24 etchings are inscribed in pencil by Cruikshank: From Geo. Cruikshank to his friend Fredk Arnold. Arnold was Cruikshank s publisher. Although Cruikshank s illustrations for the first English translation of Grimm s Fairy Tales received a great deal of praise, this foray into the world of children s fantasy proved less successful. Many, including Charles Dickens, criticised the artist for the Temperance-inspired slant he put on these traditional stories. In Cinderella, for instance, the court prepares for the ball by setting fire to its entire reserve of alcohol. It was alterations such as this that prompted Dickens to write and publish a satirical attack on Cruikshank entitled Frauds on the Fairies, in Household Words magazine in Comprising: eight original pencil drawings (22 x 18 cm), heightened with water-colour and a complete set of twenty-four etching proofs (20 x 16 cm), mounted on tabs. Superb early 20th century full morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt panelled and blocked with stylised passion flowers to boards, spine and dentelles, silk moiré linings and all edges gilt, preserved in a contemporary solander box. 8,500 [ref: 95604] 38 Shapero Rare Books

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40 A remarkable survival In original parts 34. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; Angus b. reach. Clement Lorimer; or The Book with the Iron Clasps. David Bogue, London, [1849]. a fine copy in original parts of the first edition of the first english detective Novel. cohn states that issues such as this, in parts, are extremely scarce and rarely come up for sale. furthermore, the woodcut design that appears on the front of each part does Not appear in the volume. Angus Reach ( ) was a Scottish journalist and novelist who worked for a long time as a court reporter for the Morning Chronicle in London. This provided him with the inspiration for the present work. Often credited as the first full-length detective novel in the English language, Clement Lorimer is a tale of vendetta, murder, racehorse doping, slow poisoning and abduction in six parts, in which the eponymous hero finds himself caught between two warring families who have sworn to annihilate each other. First edition. 6 parts. 12mo. [8] pp. advertisements, 2 etched plates with tissue guard, [1]-48 pp.; [8] pp. advertisements, 2 etched plates with tissue guard, pp.; [8] pp. advertisements, 2 etched plates with tissue guard, pp.; 2 etched plates with tissue guard, pp.; 2 etched plates with tissue guard, pp.; 2 etched plates with tissue guard, printed title, dedication [top edge uncut], [2] pp. contents, list of plates [top edge uncut], pp; slight age-toning. Original printed wrappers with decorative wood-engraved border and vignette, later cloth chemise, slipcase; some splitting to spines, hand-written auction label to outside of chemise. Cohn ,800 [ref: 95915] 40 Shapero Rare Books

41 35. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; Augustus & henry MAyheW. The good genius that turned everything into gold. Or the Queen Been and the Magic Dress. A Christmas fairy tale. David Bogue, London, a characteristically Quirky christmas fairy tale from one of the founders of Punch magazine and his Brother. Given the date of publication and the coat of arms that appears, it seems likely that the William Armstrong to whom this book once belonged was the inventor and engineer William George Armstrong of Newcastle ( ), who built Newcastle s Swing Bridge and the hydraulic mechanism that operates London s Tower Bridge. On his death, The Times declared that, [w]ith his death Newcastle loses her greatest citizen and the country at large one of the worthies of the expiring century. Provenance: Bookplate of William Armstrong. First edition. 8vo. Title engraving, title, [1] f. dedication and list of illustrations, 194 pp. with 4 etched plates and several wood-engraved illustrations, [1] p. advertisements at rear; hinges pulling with some cracking. Original giltpictorial green cloth; bookplate, small mark on upper cover, spine slightly sunned. Cohn [ref: 95983] Shapero Rare Books 41

42 In original parts 36. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; [Augustus & henry MAyheW]. The greatest plague of life. Or, the adventures of a lady in search of a good servant. David Bogue, London, [1847]. a remarkably fine example in original parts. These black and white illustrations accompany a tongue-in-cheek account of the trials and tribulations of everyday life in 6 parts, written in the first person, purportedly by a lady who has been almost worried to death in her pursuit of a reliable servant. The work s real authors are the Mayhew brothers, Augustus and Henry. The latter was one of the founders of Punch magazine. Gustavia A Senff ( ) was the wife of art collector and sugar manufacturer Charles H Senff. His extensive collection was sold after her death, and much of it now resides in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Provenance: Bookplates of Gustavia A. Senff and Clarence S. Bemens. First edition. Six original parts with glyphograph titles and wrappers featuring advertisements. 8vo. Separate 12 pp. publisher s catalogue; 2 full-page etched plates with tissue guard, [1]-48 pp.; 2 full-page etched plates with tissue guard, pp., [6] pp. advertisements including folded 8vo leaf inset New Work by the Author of The Knitted Lace Collar Receipt Book ; 2 full-page etched plates with tissue guard, pp.; [8] pp. advertisements, 2 full-page etched plates with tissue guard, pp.; [8] pp. advertisements, 2 full-page etched plates with tissue guard, pp., [12] pp. advertisements including [8] pp. 12mo inset Gilbert s College Atlas ; small blue slip inset, [16] pp. advertisements, large yellow slip advertisement, pp. including [1] p. list of plates, title. Original pictorial wrappers, preserved in cloth chemise and slightly worn morocco solander; bookplate to blank recto of first plate in part 1 (no damage to plate). Cohn ,500 [ref: 95904] 42 Shapero Rare Books

43 doheney Copy 37. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; C. Apel. Der Freischütz Travestie. By Septimus Globus. With twelve etchings by George Cruikshank, from drawings by an amateur; and the original tale whereon the German opera is founded. For C. Baldwyn, London, rare coloured copy with good provenance Der Freischütz (usually translated as The Marksman or The Freeshooter) was originally a romantic opera with a libretto by Friedrich Kind and a score by Carl Maria von Weber, first performed in Berlin in Cruikshank capitalised on the opera s success by producing this travesty, along with the unidentified Septimus Globus, in which he lampoons Kind s text, suggests popular English ditties such as be used instead of Weber s music and gives sarcastic stage directions such as a song sings itself. The work also contains many embellishments not present in the original opera, such as a cameo from Frankenstein s monster. The opera was re-worked by Hector Berlioz several years later, and this version was first performed in Paris in This copy comes from the library of Carrie Estelle Betzold Doheny ( ), one of the most renowned American collectors of the XX century, who also founded the Estelle Doheny Eye Foundation, the Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation, and the Estelle Doheny Hospital and Pavilion at St. Vincent s Medical Centre, among other philanthropic projects. Doheny s collection, at its peak, included 7000 books and 1300 manuscripts. Provenance: Red morocco book label of Estelle Doheny. First edition. Large 8vo. Title, half-title, list of dramatis personae, 68 pp. with 12 hand-coloured etched plates on Whatman paper. Publisher s blue-green paper boards; old reback, corners worn, book label to upper pastedown. Cohn 36. 1,800 [ref: 95957] Shapero Rare Books 43

44 MAgnIFICent large paper Copy 38. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; david CArey. Life in Paris; comprising the rambles, sprees, and amours, of Dick Wildfire, of corinthian celebrity, and his bang-up companions, Squire Jenkins and Captain O Shuffleton; with the whimsical adventures of the Halibut family; including sketches of a variety of other eccentric characters in the French metropolis. John Fairburn, London, one of the earliest and and most NotaBle examples of the work of george cruikshank, with fine, clean plates. In 1821, the journalist Pierce Egan published Life in London, an immediate success illustrated by the Cruikshank brothers, George and Robert. In order to capitalise on this success, another journalist, David Carey, decided to publish his own Life in Paris in monthly instalments (just like Life in London) and with a very similar frontispiece to the one that appears in Egan s work; Life in Paris, however, was illustrated only by George Cruikshank. The pictures are extremely spirited and true, and are all the more wonderful in view of the fact that the artist s continental experiences were limited to one day spent in Boulogne. (Hardie) Of the 63 copies that have come to auction since 1975 only one was a large-paper copy in original boards. First edition in book form, first issue. Royal 8vo (26 x 16 cm). large PaPer copy Bound from the Parts. xxiv including half-title and title, 489 pp. with 21 hand-coloured aquatints and 22 wood-engraved text vignettes, with cancelled leaves 143/4 and 335/6 and leaf of Directions to the Binder which is considered indispensible to a complete copy (Cohn); 2 spots to title. Original boards sometime rebacked with red paper, binder s endleaf watermarked 1800, preserved in a red hard-grained morocco folding box; a few marginal repairs, pinholes from printing visible in most gatherings (attesting to its untouched proportions). Cohn, 109; Abbey Travel 112; Tooley, 129; Hardie ,500 [ref: 95584] 44 Shapero Rare Books

45 39. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; FrederICK locker. London Lyrics. Chapman and Hall, London, a fine copy of locker s work, which constitutes his poetical legacy. (ODNB) Frederick Locker ( ) was born and raised in London and lived in the city for most of his life. This explains his devotion to the city, which is not merely the setting, but also one of the central themes of this collection of sentimental poetry. As well as titles such as The Pilgrims of Pall Mall and A Glimpse of Gretna Green, in the Distance, Locker even turns his attention to Shapero Rare Books very own neighbour - St George s Church, Hanover Square. A review of this work,published in The Spectator on 12 August 1876, states: It is a volume which does not now need any critic s commendation. Most people are agreed to accept the London Lyrics as among the best of English vers de société. Locker worked as a clerk until ill health forced him to leave government service in He then went on to write reviews for various publications including The Times and Punch. He became known as Frederick Locker Lampson after adding his second wife s maiden name to his following her death in Provenance: unidentified bookplate featuring whippet before foliage. First edition. 8vo. Etched frontispiece by Cruikshank, woodcut title device, initials and decorations, viii, 90 pp; slight foxing. Original blind-tooled cloth with decoration to upper cover and gilt lettering and further decoration to spine; spine gilt faded, slight cocking, small split to cloth at foot of spine, minor rubbing to spine ends and corner-tips, bookplate on front pastedown, bookseller s small sticker on rear pastedown. Cohn [ref: 95626] Shapero Rare Books 45

46 In original boards 40. Peter Schlemihl. From the German. G. and W. B. Whittaker, Ave Maria Lane, London, CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; FrIedrICh heinrich KArl lamotte FouQué. rare in original Boards. Translated into English for the first time, by John Bowring, using a German text by Friedrich Heinrich Karl Lamotte Fouqué. The original story of Peter Schlemihl, a man who sells his soul to the devil, was written by Adelbert von Chamisso ( ) and published in The work went on to occupy a significant space in the cultural imagination of several nations, with Schlemihl himself, or characters who suffer a similar fate, featuring in the works of E. T. A. Hoffman, Hans Christian Andersen, Oscar Wilde and more. In keeping with the subject matter, these are some of Cruikshank s more sinister illustrations; the frontispiece, for example, depicts the devil himself unpeeling the protagonist s shadow from the sole of his shoes. These illustrations are beautifully preserved. First edition, third issue (without hyphen in Ave Maria in imprint). 12mo. Half-title, etched frontispiece, title, xii, 166 pp. with 7 full-page etchings, 2 pp. ads at rear; one plate loose, small tears and discolouration to edges, no damage to text or etchings. Uncut in original pink paper boards, printed paper label to spine, preserved in custom red cloth solander box; joints cracked but firm, worn, a rare survival. Cohn [ref: 95965] 46 Shapero Rare Books

47 41. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; henry david InglIs. Rambles in the Footsteps of Don Quixote. Whittaker and Co., London, a work from which i have derived more information than from all the state documents i ever perused. Lord Aberdeen s Speech. This bold claim appears on the very first page of the present edition, but is completely at odds with the tongue-in-cheek, self-deprecating style in which the rest of the work is written. Many of the chapters, for example, feature sardonic titles such as: Wherein the author - and through him, the reader - receive some information not unworthy of being known, and at the conclusion of which, the author is left asleep in the reputed house of Don Quixote, to the envy, no doubt, of the reader... Henry David Inglis ( ) was a Scottish travel writer and novelist who sometimes used the pseudonym Derwent Conway. Over the course of his short life he published works on a great number of European countries including Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, France, Spain, modern-day Germany, Ireland and Sweden. First edition. 8vo. Title vignette, 6 etched plates and tailpiece by Cruikshank. Turn-of-the-century green crushed morocco gilt by Hyman Zucker with original covers bound in, housed in a custom blue-green cloth slipcase. Cohn ,250 [ref: 95954] Shapero Rare Books 47

48 original parts 42. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; henry MAyheW. 1851: or, The adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family, who came up to London to enjoy themselves and to see the Great Exhibition. David Bogue, London, [1851]. first edition, in original parts. An unusually well-preserved and attractive set of a relatively uncommon work by the journalist, social commentator, playwright and reform advocate Henry Mayhew ( ). This satirical sketch follows the Sandboys family s trip from Cumbria to the Great Exhibition in London, a journey unfortunately beset by a series of comic misadventures that sees them finally arrive just as the exhibition closes. The work is perhaps most significant for its insight into London in the mid-xix century. Provenance: From the Carl H. Pforzheimer collection (ink stamp to inside of chemise). 8 parts. 8vo. 2 etched plates, 1 single-page and 1 double-page, [1]-32 pp.; [8] pp. advertisement, 2 double-page etched plates, pp.; double-page etched plate, pp. without leaf of advertisement to correct the absence of pp removed; [2] pp. advertisement, folding etched plate, pp., [8] pp. advertisement; folding etched plate, pp., [8] pp. inset advertisement; folding etched plate, pp., [2] pp. advertisement; folding etched plate, pp.; folding etched plate, pp., etched title, list of illustrations, outside back wrapper features advertisement for The Shabby Fammerly rather than Holy Land advertisement called for by Cohn; some general light toning, minor foxing to some extremities, second plate of part II loose. Original pictorial wrappers with advertisements, preserved in modern cloth chemise and morocco slipcase with faux spines; slight creasing and rubbing to edges, minor wear & splits without loss to spines, part VIII lower wrapper darkened. Cohn ,000 [ref: 95624] 48 Shapero Rare Books

49 43. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; henry MAyheW. 1851: or, The adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family, who came up to London to enjoy themselves and to see the Great Exhibition. David Bogue, London, [1851]. a handsome copy of the first edition of this uncommon work. This satirical sketch by the journalist, social commentator and founder of Punch magazine Henry Mayhew follows the Sandboys trip from Cumbria to the Great Exhibition in London, a journey unfortunately beset by a series of comic misadventures that sees them finally arrive just as the exhibition closes. The work is perhaps most significant for its insight into London in the mid-xix century. 8vo. Pictorial title, list of illustrations. 242 pp. including 10 etched plates (one single-page, 4 double-page and 5 folding); without leaf of advertisements to correct the absence of pp removed. Later polished calf by Riviere, covers with gilt borders, spine in 6 compartments, red lettering pieces with gilt to second and third, others richly gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt; cover slightly scratched. Cohn [ref: 95908] Shapero Rare Books 49

50 44. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; horace MAyheW. The tooth-ache. Imagined by... David Bogue, London, [1849]. a painfully funny panorama of dental torture: first edition, first issue. Poems and essays have been written by literary men upon the gout, and there are, of course, countless professional treatises on dentistry; but I have met with only one on toothache which can be called literary: The Tooth-Ache, imagined by Horace Mayhew and realised by George Cruikshank. (Notes and Queries, 10th Series, Aug. 15, 1908, p. 122) The website of the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons describes this as its most amusing book. The work takes the forms of a long comic strip that folds out from the covers and tells the story of a Victorian gentleman suffering from toothache in forty five brilliant illustrations, over the course of which he makes various, increasingly manic, attempts to cure himself before eventually submitting to the wisdom of the dentist. Horace Mayhew ( ) was the brother of Augustus and Henry Mayhew, who feature elsewhere in this catalogue. All three were heavily involved in the establishment of Punch magazine; the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography also claims that Horace was the inspiration for the character of the White Knight in Lewis Carroll s Through the Looking Glass. Provenance: Bookplate of F.C.A Staffurth. 12mo. 43 hand-coloured etched illustrations on 24 sheets in concertina form, printed advertisement to inside rear cover, small ownership label on inside front cover. Original pictorial boards, rebacked preserving most of original backstrip, rubbed and toned, presented in modern cloth drop-back box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Cohn ,600 [ref: 95911] 50 Shapero Rare Books

51 original boards 45. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; [J.A. paris]. Philosophy in sport made science in earnest; being an attempt to illustrate the first principles of natural philosophy by the aid of popular toys and sports. Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, a rare complete edition of this amusing and informative work. John Ayrton Paris ( ) was a writer and doctor who became president of the Royal College of Physicians in 1844 and remained in this post until his death twelve years later. Philosophy in Sport was conceived as a children s book whose only initial intended readers were the author s children. It is based on the fairly modern idea of combining educational content with humour and imagination, and demonstrates relatively complicated scientific concepts with the help of mirrors, fireworks and popular toys. Cruikshank s illustrations are not only extremely charming, but also provide clarity to many of the author s explanations. This work is rarely found complete and in such good order, particularly with the advertisements present. Provenance: ex libris bookplates and label of Albert M. Cohn, Cruikshank s bibliographer; labels of bookseller Henry Evans. First edition. 3 volumes. 8vo. 12 pp. advertisements, xviii including half-title and title, 316 pp.; viii including half-title and title, 314 pp., 2 pp. advertisements; vi including half-title and title, 208 pp.; some minor spotting. Publisher s boards, printed paper labels to spines, housed in modern morocco-backed cloth drop-back box; edge-wear and superficial soiling, bookplates to verso of upper board in all 3 volumes. Cohn 626; Toole Stott [ref: 95907] Shapero Rare Books 51

52 IndIA proof IllustrAtIons together WIth A Copy of the book 46. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; John payne CollIer. Punch and Judy india proofs [spine title.] With a copy of the first edition. [Septimus Prowett, London, 1828] two sets of cruikshank s illustrations, capturing all of the violence of the Beloved puppet-show, Both in colour and Black and white. of superior Quality. In addition to Cruikshank s lively etchings, the first edition of this work also contains the dialogue of standard Punch and Judy shows and an account of the origin of this and other puppet-shows throughout England. The second edition, which also appears here, was published in the same year but without this text, with the illustrations in black and white. Furthermore, the vast majority of copies of this second edition used much thinner, lower quality paper for the plates; the present copy is one of only eleven with the plates on india paper, and is extremely scarce. Provenance: India proofs: bookplate of Clarence S. Bemenz. First edition: bookplates of Henry William Poor, the noted Wall Street investor; and Walter Thomas Wallace. 8vo. First edition: Title, 111 pp. with 24 hand-coloured etched plates on Whatman paper including frontispiece, woodcut title and other vignettes; lacks the advertisement slip described by Cohn. 19th century half morocco, spine gilt, top edges gilt; bookplates on front endpapers. India proofs: 24 uncoloured etched proofs on india paper mounted onto blank card. Full red crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf featuring gilt Punch & Judy motifs, gilt dentelles, top edges gilt; bookplate to preliminary blank leaf. Cohn ,000 [ref: 95987] 52 Shapero Rare Books

53 47. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; John WIght. More mornings at Bow Street. A New Collection of Humorous and Entertaining Reports. James Robins & Co., London, an excellent, collector s copy of the scarcer and more collectable india proof issue. In this volume, Cruikshank describes some of the most prominent cases brought before the Bow Street magistrate in his day (changing the names of the parties involved). In the process he defends the reputation of the Charleys, the watchmen of Westminster until the founding of the Metropolitan Police until 1829, who had generally been written off as old and useless, but who Cruikshank showed to be dedicated and conscientious. This issue was published at 15s as opposed to 10s 6d, the price for the standard paper issue. All of the illustrations were designed by Cruikshank, though only the frontispiece was etched by him. Provenance: Ex-libris bookplate of Gladys Robinson. First edition. 8vo. Half-title, xvi including etched frontispiece and title, 264 pp. with 16 vignettes by various artists on laid-down india paper and 8 plates on india paper. Original brown-grey boards, paper label (priced 15s) on spine, uncut and unopened, presented in later cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase with faux spines; bookplate on front pastedown, minor bumping and rubbing to extremities, upper hinge pulling slightly with very minor superficial splitting. Cohn [ref: 95628] Shapero Rare Books 53

54 CruIKshAnK In glasgow 48. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; shadow. Midnight scenes and social photographs: being sketches of life in the streets, wynds, and dens of the City. By Shadow. Thomas Murray and Son [&c.], Glasgow, London & Edinburgh, Inspired by the advent of photography, this work by the author Shadow seeks to relay in prose everything that a camera would have captured. As he writes in the preface to the work: [These scenes] are not creations of the brain, but so far as the writer s knowledge of the art extends - they are truthful. The action takes place over one week in Glasgow, but shows only the city s night life, under titles such as Aversion of the Poor to Religious Tracts, Extreme Destitution, Tribute to Teetotalism, Distressing Case, Pitiful Scene in High Street, Mortality amongst Prostitutes and Slack Work and Soup Kitchens. The idea of portraying the full, grim reality of city life would no doubt have appealed to Cruikshank at this time, as he had taken a vow of sobriety ten years previously and begun to extol the values of the Temperance movement in his work from that time. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Reuben Jay Flick. First edition. 8vo. 146 pp. including half-title, etched frontispiece by Cruikshank, title, 4 pp. advertisements; some oxidising. Original pictorial yellow boards, preserved in later cloth chemise and slipcase; wear to spine, bookplate to front pastedown. Cohn [ref: 95974] 54 Shapero Rare Books

55 original boards 49. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; sir FrederIC FoddlIng. A Looking-Glass for the Ladies; which possesses not only the Property of Showing What They Are, but What They Ought To Be, etc. J. Johnston, London, A Looking-Glass for the Ladies was intended as a companion to Foddling s simultaneous publication Portraits of Fops. The book is divided into several chapters, each of which is dedicated to a different kind of contemporary lady and is followed by details of the qualifications required to become one. The categories are: The Modern Mother; The Gay Widow; The Prude; The Flirt; The Affected Old Maid; The Hysterical Wife; and The Fashionable Meteor. The work also features an extremely vibrant, comical frontispiece by Cruikshank entitled A Modern Masquerade in which Punch and Judy appear to make a cameo. Provenance: Fabric bookplate with gilt letters awf (?). Small 8vo. Folding hand-coloured frontispiece, title, i-iv, [1] p. contents, 112 pp. Publisher s grey boards, rebacked with tan paper backstrip and printed label; bookplate to verso of upper board, discolouration to spine, worn. Cohn [ref: 95947] Shapero Rare Books 55

56 In original parts 50. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; the brothers MAyheW, editors. Whom to Marry and How to Get Married! Or, the adventures of a lady in search of a good husband. D. Bogue, London, [1848]. first edition, first issue - a fine set in original parts. The Mayhew brothers (Augustus and Henry) were both heavily involved in the production of Victorian satire; Henry, the elder, was in fact one of the founders of Punch magazine. That same style of sharp mockery shines through in the present work. Several chapters, such as The Natural History of Stuck-Up People, appear to contain warnings about men to avoid when searching for a husband. First edition. In 6 monthly parts as issued. 8vo. 12 etchings and title vignette. Publisher s pictorial wrapper, preserved in custom red half morocco solander and matching chemise; some sympathetic paper repairs to spines, minor dust-soiling. Cohn ,200 [ref: 95939] 56 Shapero Rare Books

57 51. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; WAlter scott. Twelve sketches illustrative of Sir Walter Scott s Demonology and Witchcraft. J. Robins and Co., London: an excellent copy. Scott s Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft was, like the present work, first published in It is believed to have been written more out of financial necessity than any particular interest of Scott s in the occult; he was, in fact, commissioned to write Demonology and Witchcraft by John Murray, who wished to issue it as part of a new series entitled The Family Library. Scott s work takes the form of a series of letter-essays addressed to the author s son-in-law. In the present volume, Cruikshank has selected 12 supernatural scenes described by Scott and illustrated them in highly imaginative, sometimes unsettling, detail. Cruikshank also includes the corresponding excerpt from Scott in brief ahead of each etching. This copy comes from the collection of the American financier Carl H. Pforzheimer Sr. ( ). Though the collection, now housed in the New York Public Library, is mostly dedicated to the works of Shelley and his circle, it comprises around 25,000 books, manuscripts and letters in total. Provenance: Ink-stamp of The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library to rear wrapper verso. 12mo. Title, 12 ff. letterpress including 12 uncoloured etchings, [2] ff. advertisements; advertisement of works Designed, Etched, and Published by G. Cruikshank (verso blank) appears at rear rather than commencement as Cohn describes), some foxing. Original printed wrappers, preserved in modern cloth chemise and slipcase. Cohn [ref: 95973] Shapero Rare Books 57

58 original WrAppers 52. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; WIllIAM barnes rhodes. Bombastes Furioso: A Burlesque Tragic Opera. London, a fine copy in original wrappers. This drama by William Barnes Rhodes (sometimes mistakenly named as Thomas Barnes Rhodes) is peppered with comic songs, and is therefore perhaps closer to a modern-day musical than to contemporary operas. The work satirises the bombast of early XIX tragedy and was extremely popular in its day. In this volume, the play s full script is combined with illustrations by Cruikshank, beautifully preserved, and captions indicating where they fit within the drama. First edition. 12mo. 36 pp. including etched frontispiece, title with vignette, 7 wood-engraved plates. Original printed wrappers with vignette, preserved in later half cloth chemise with ties; cover and spine slightly rubbed, some discolouration to chemise. Cohn [ref: 95914] 58 Shapero Rare Books

59 plates In two states 53. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; WIllIAM barnes rhodes. Bombastes Furioso. A Burlesque Tragic Opera. Thomas Rodd and T. Griffiths, London, rare example with the plates in two states, Not mentioned thus By cohn. This drama by William Barnes Rhodes (sometimes mistakenly named as Thomas Barnes Rhodes) is peppered with comic songs, and is therefore perhaps closer to a modern-day musical than to contemporary operas. The work satirises the bombast of early XIX tragedy and was extremely popular in its day. In this volume, the play s full script is combined with illustrations by Cruikshank, beautifully preserved, and captions indicating where they fit within the drama. A highly attractive copy. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Herbert Rivington Pyne. First edition. 12mo. 36 pp. including etched frontispiece, title with vignette and 7 wood-engraved plates each in two states, hand-coloured and plain. Nineteenth century red calf, covers with gilt borders, spine in six compartments, green lettering pieces with gilt to second and third, others richly gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers; bookplate to upper pastedown, spine darkened. Cohn [ref: 95982] Shapero Rare Books 59

60 Cohn s Copy In original WrAppers 54. CruIKshAnK, george, IllustrAtor; [WIllIAM shakespeare]. Capulet and Montague; or, The Tragical Loves of Romeo and Juliet. Hodgson & Co., London, [1823]. an extremely rare survival in original wrappers, from the library of cruikshank s BiBliogrpaher. A prose re-telling of Shakespeare s Romeo and Juliet in pamphlet form, originally designed as a more portable and affordable way to read the play. Cruikshank s beautifully coloured frontispiece depicts the scene in which ROMEO thinking her Dead poisons himself at the Tomb of JULIET, at the moment she revives. Unusually, the slain Tybalt also appears in the etching. This copy bears the bookplate and ownership label of Albert M. Cohn, who completed a comprehensive bibliography of Cruikshank s work. The second ownership label, which appears inside the chapbook itself, bears the Cohn family motto, Lux dei ibi salus ( In the light of God there is salvation ). Provenance: Bookplate of Albert M. Cohn, Cruikshank s bibliographer. First edition. 8vo. Folding hand-coloured etched frontispiece, 24 pp. including title; light foxing; small ownership sticker to inside front cover. Original printed wrappers, preserved in later half morocco chemise; minor edge wear, bookplate and second ownership label inside. Cohn [ref: 95909] 60 Shapero Rare Books

61 55. CruIKshAnK, george or robert, IllustrAtors; ChArles lamb. Satan in Search of a Wife; with the Whole Process of his Courtship and Marriage, and Who Danced at the Wedding. By an Eye Witness. Edward Moxon, London, an excellent example of a fragile survival. Love tames Satan and the world can rest easy; and yet, Lamb writes, It remains to be seen whether the world will be much benefited by the change in his condition. Provenance: red morocco book label with gilt rose. First edition. 12mo. 36 pp. with woodcuts engraved by G.W. Bonner after designs variously attributed to George and Robert Cruikshank; slight foxing. Original buff paper wrappers printed in black, preserved in a custom green morocco solander; restoration to spine, light soiling to covers, bookplate to recto of first blank. Not listed in Cohn. 650 [ref: 95979] Shapero Rare Books 61

62 extra IllustrAted WIth superb provenance 56. CruIKshAnK, george; WIllIAM Jerrold. The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs. Chatto and Windus, London, 1882 a superb example of extra-illustration. This copy from the esteemed collection of Prince Henry, Duke of Cloucester, with many plates by or after Cruikshank, and a caricature drawing of the artist by spy. The inserted plates are drawn from Cruikshank s works throughout his life and include illustrations for works by Pierce Egan, Sir Walter Scott, and W.H. Ainsworth. Provenance: Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (bookplate). A New Edition vo. inlaid to folio. (42.5 x cm). Half-title and title with woodcut vignette after Cruikshank. Woodcut frontispiece, 17 plates, and illustrations after Cruikshank and facsimile manuscript. extraillustrated with: an additional calligraphic title in red and black with gold rules; an original watercolour caricature of Cruikshank by Spy ; a hand-coloured aquatint panorama The Procession at the Coronation of His Majesty George IV dissected and inlaid with 7-leaf letterpress key; a one-page autograph letter signed from Cruikshank to Bentley, regarding the engraving of a drawing by Dalziel, 263 Hampstead Road, [London] NW, 23 July 1863; c. 290 etchings, aquatints, and other prints, by or after Cruikshank, c. 100 hand-coloured, some mounted proofs on india before letters. Red morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for Charles W. Sawyer, covers with triple gilt fillet borders and gilt cornerpiece tools after Cruikshank, gilt spine compartments lettered and similarly decorated with tools after Cruikshank, gilt turn-ins with foliate rolls, gilt edges. 7,500 [ref: 96827] 62 Shapero Rare Books

63 57. CruIKshAnK, IsAAC, IllustrAtor; george MoutArd WoodWArd. Eccentric Excursions or, literary & pictorial sketches of countenance, character & country, in different parts of England & South Wales. Interspersed with curious anecdotes. Embellished with upwards of one hundred characteristic & illustrative prints. Allen & Co., London, Woodward came to London from Derbyshire to develop his artistic talent and immediately became a popular and prolific designer of social caricatures, much in the style of Bunbury. Generally his humour was coarse and extravagant as befitted a person who led a dissipated and drunken life but his work shows a wealth of imagination and insight into character. Eccentric Excursions was his first publication and satirises the customs, manners, and eccentricities of English life at the turn of the XVIII century. The plates in the present work are by Isaac Cruikshank (George s father) after Woodward. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Rev. Henry Gamble and gift inscription dated 1865 (?). 4to. Hand-coloured etched frontispiece dated August , iv including title, 218 pp. with 100 hand-coloured plates dated August April , of which 3 folding; 1 with short tear to fold, foxing. Contemporary purple straight-grained morocco by McArthur with his ticket, covers with gilt triple fillets (wide greek key border and foliate roll-tool border enclosing inner rectangle with rope frame and decorative gilt inner corner frames), spine in 5 compartments, gilt lettered direct to second, third and fourth, others richly gilt, double raised bands with honeycomb gilt tool, all edges gilt; corners and spine rubbed. Rosenbach ,000 [ref: 95605] Shapero Rare Books 63

64 58. CruIKshAnK, IsAAC, robert & george. The Cruikshankian Momus... Pictorial broadsides and humorous song-headings... John C. Nimmo, London, NumBer 421 of 520 copies, in excellent condition. 52 fine hand-coloured illustrations by Cruikshank senior and his two sons, named on the cover as Robert & The Great George. The plates depict accompany short poems and depict, among other scenes, a morning drop-in at Christie s, pastimes on Primrose Hill, several sailors and sea creatures, a Russian wedding, and A Good Joke. Large 8vo. Half-title, hand-coloured plate, title printed in red and black, [3] pp. list of illustrations, 136 pp. with 52 hand-coloured plates. Original gilt-tooled cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. 300 [ref: 95674] 64 Shapero Rare Books

65 59. CruIKshAnK, IsAAC robert & george, IllustrAtors. London Oddities; or, the theatrical cabinet; being neat tit bits for the lovers of humour and eccentricity... Hodgson and Co., London, [ ]. extremely rare complete set, illustrated By all three cruikshanks. A collection of ditties, rhymes and word puzzles such as Whimsical Love-Letter to a Young Lady, with an Explanation. The majority of the plates are signed by Robert Cruikshank, though several are initialled by George or their father Isaac - or, in some cases, both. Copies with all twelve parts are scarce; only three are found in institutional holdings worldwide. Most institutional copies are single parts from the series. First edition. 12 parts in one volume (complete). 8vo. Each part comprises identical pagination: hand-coloured etched frontispiece with tissue guard, 24 pp. including title; minor browning and spotting. Later half calf, spine in 6 compartments, blue lettering piece with gilt to second, others richly gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt, others uncut. Cohn ,500 [ref: 95906] Shapero Rare Books 65

66 WIth george CruIKshAnK signature tipped-in 60. CruIKshAnK, IsAAK & george, IllustrAtors; pierce egan. Life in London; or, the day and night scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the Metropolis. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, London, scarce first edition, first issue. In 1821 Egan announced the publication of a regular journal: Life in London, appearing monthly at a shilling a time. It was to be illustrated by George Cruikshank ( ), and was dedicated to the King, George IV, who at one time had received Egan at court. The first edition of Life in London appeared on 15 July Egan s creation was an instant success. Pirate versions appeared, featuring such figures as Bob Tallyho, Dick Wildfire and the like. Printmakers speedily knocked off cuts featuring the various stars and the real-life public flocked to the sporting addresses that Egan had his heroes frequent. There was a translation into French. At least six plays were based on Egan s characters, contributing to yet more sales. One of these was exported to America, launching the Tom and Jerry craze there. The version created by William Thomas Moncrieff was praised as The Beggar s Opera of its day. Moncrieff s production of Tom and Jerry, or Life in London ran continuously at the Adelphi Theatre for two seasons and it was the dramatist s work as much as the author s that did so much to popularise the book s trademark use of fashionable slang. First edition, first issue. 8vo. Specimen of George Cruikshank s signature to front free endpaper, xvi including hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and title with vignette, 376 pp. with 35 fine hand-coloured aquatints, 3 folding leaves of music; bound without half-title, advertisements or very rare to the subscribers leaf (as usual), light offsetting to text. Full polished calf gilt by Rivière & Son, covers with triple gilt border, spine in 6 compartments, brown morocco lettering pieces to second and third, others richly gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt; neatly rebacked preserving spine. Cohn 262; Abbey Life 281; Tooley 196; Prideaux pp307, 310; Hardie ,100 [ref: 95672] 66 Shapero Rare Books

67 In original boards 61. CruIKshAnK, IsAAK & george, IllustrAtors; pierce egan. Life in London. Or, the Day and Night Scenes. Jerry Hawthorn Esq., Corinthian Tom, and Bob Logic, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis. For the proprietors by W. Strange, B. Steill, Berger, London, 1829/30. a superbly preserved example, in its original fragile format, of one of the great evocations of regency life. In 1821 Egan announced the publication of a regular journal: Life in London, appearing monthly at a shilling a time. It was to be illustrated by George Cruikshank ( ), and was dedicated to the King, George IV, who at one time had received Egan at court. The first edition of Life in London appeared on 15 July Egan s creation was an instant success. Pirate versions appeared, featuring such figures as Bob Tallyho, Dick Wildfire and the like. Printmakers speedily knocked off cuts featuring the various stars and the real-life public flocked to the sporting addresses that Egan had his heroes frequent. There was a translation into French. At least six plays were based on Egan s characters, contributing to yet more sales. One of these was exported to America, launching the Tom and Jerry craze there. The version created by William Thomas Moncrieff was praised as The Beggar s Opera of its day. Moncrieff s production of Tom and Jerry, or Life in London ran continuously at the Adelphi Theatre for two seasons and it was the dramatist s work as much as the author s that did so much to popularise the book s trademark use of fashionable slang. A new edition, in the original 18 parts, first published in 1822 but date of this edition more likely vo. Hand-coloured aquatint title in part I, in total 35 hand-coloured aquatint plates with tissue guards, 3 engraved folding sheets of music in last part. Original pale grey paper wrappers printed in black, housed in dark blue chemise and custom dark blue quarter morocco slipcase with faux spine in 6 compartments, gilt lettered direct to second, third, fourth and six, raised bands. Cf. Cohn 262; cf. Abbey Life ,500 [ref: 95964] Shapero Rare Books 67

68 62. CruIKshAnK, robert. Lessons of Thrift. Published for General Benefit. By a Member of the Save-All Club. Thomas Boys, London, Illustrated by George Cruikshank s brother Robert, this work includes many hints that may still prove invaluable today; for example, the highly amusing plate entitled Dismissing Unwanted Guests. Large 8vo. Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, hand-coloured aquatint engraved vignette title, xvi, 240 pp. with 10 hand-coloured aquatint plates, [2] pp. advertisements. Original pink paper boards, uncut, preserved in a custom tan quarter calf solander box with faux spine in 6 compartments, red lettering piece with gilt to second, raised bands; original boards and spine worn. 950 [ref: 95940] 68 Shapero Rare Books

69 63. CruIKshAnK, robert, IllustrAtor; samuel taylor ColerIdge And robert southey [And others]. The Devil s Walk; a poem, n.d.; The Real Devil s Walk. Not by Professor Porson, 1831; Monsieur Tonson, 1830; Steamers v. Stages, William Kidd [- Alfred Miller], London, an attractive set illustrated with Beautiful wood engravings By Both cruikshank Brothers. Although the illustrations to these volumes are generally believed to have been the work of Robert Cruikshank, Cohn in his bibliography draws his reader s attention to the following letter from George Cruikshank s wife, dated April 1864 and addressed to Mr W. B. Russell, in which she suggests that this is not wholly accurate: SIR, My husband, George Cruikshank, is very much pressed for time, being now employed in finishing his large plate of The Worship of Bacchus, which must be published in two or three weeks; that in reply to your note of enquiry he wishes me to inform you that although his brother Robert s name appears as Illustrator of The Devil s Walk, yet my husband helped his brother so much with those designs, that they may be considered almost (if not quite) his own. The Devil s Walk began life as The Devil s Thoughts, a poem published by Coleridge in The Morning Post and The Gazetteer in The poet Robert Southey then revised Coleridge s original work and re-titled it. The Real Devil s Walk, meanwhile, claims to offer a more truthful approach, embellished with extracts from the diary of the devil himself: Of the Devil s Walk there s been much talk, / And folks seem mighty curious; / Now this is the Real Devil s Walk, / And all the rest are spurious. All four are highly comical in tone. The final two volumes, John Taylor s popular dramatic poem Monsieur Tonson and Steamers v. Stages are both equally satirical works, the latter beginning with the declaration that punning is now the order of the day. 4 volumes. 12mo. The Devil s Walk: hand-coloured etched frontispiece, 34 pp. including title, [2] pp. advertisement at beginning, [1] p. advertisement to rear and 5 hand-coloured etched plates; The Real Devil s Walk: hand-coloured etched frontispiece, 34 pp. including title and 6 hand-coloured etched plates; Monsieur Tonson: hand-coloured etched frontispiece, 34 pp. including title, [1] p. advertisement to rear and 5 hand-coloured etched plates; Steamers v. Stages: First edition. 28 pp. including hand-coloured etched frontispiece, title, [8] pp. advertisement to rear and 5 hand-coloured etched plates. In total 23 hand-coloured etched. 19th century half calf by Root. Cohn [ref: 95910] Shapero Rare Books 69

70 64. dubourg, M[AttheW]. Views of the remains of ancient buildings in Rome, and its vicinity with a descriptive and historical account of each subject... Taylor, London, a very good copy with plates clean and fresh. There is little information about Dubourg; the dates of his birth and death are unknown, and even his Christian name is not well attested. He is known to have contributed coloured aquatints to Thomas Williamson, The European in India (London, 1813) and to J. F. Dove, A Picture of St Petersburg (London, 1815), as well as two plates (after drawings by Pugin) to Edward Wedlake Brayley, Illustrations of Her Majesty s Palace at Brighton (London, 1838) and the engravings for Barbara Anne Townshend s delightfully named Sibyl-Leaves, or, Drawing Room Scraps: consisting of Groups of Figures, Flowers, Roses, Birds, Butterflies &c: presenting a Variety of Studies in the Art of cutting Black Paper, for the Instruction and Amusement of Young Ladies (London, 1836). Views in Rome seems to be the first book that the artist produced entirely on his own; it consists of 26 aquatints engraved by Dubourg with a Descriptive and Historical Account of Each Subject. He was also responsbibe for Notable Bridges. A Collection of Engravings of Bridges, showing Construction and Specifications (London, 1825). In his Introduction to Views in Rome Duboug claims that the historical and descriptive sketches which accompany these views have been derived from the most recent, and probably the most judicious authorities, and he ends with an appeal to the authority of Piranesi (though his views are in fact quite different from those of the great Venetian): [I]t is presumed there cannot be offered to the public a work more interesting or more worthy of its patronage, than a selection of Views of Temples, Baths, Triumphal Arches, and other magnificent remains of Roman buildings, from the works of the justly celebrated PIRANESI. (University of Wales Trinity Saint David) Folio (42 x 33 cm). 26 hand-coloured aquatints. Original morocco-grained green cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover, rebacked with green calf; edges worn. Abbey Travel 181; Tooley ,750 [ref: 93427] 70 Shapero Rare Books

71 uncut In original boards 65. egan, pierce. The Life of an Actor. C.S. Arnold, London, a matchless copy, exceedingly rare if Not unique in this extraordinary condition. The book recounts the adventures of the actor Peregrine Proteus, who leaves his job with a printer in pursuit of a career on the stage. He achieves some success before succumbing to excesses and dissipation and ends up in prison. On his release, he turns over a new leaf, marries well, and becomes a star. John Thompson, who provided the woodcuts, was perhaps the ablest exponent of wood-engraving; he cut, in 1839, Mulready s design for the penny postage stamp, and in 1852 designed the figure of Britannia still in use on bank notes. Provenance: Morocco book label of Joseph Widener and armorial bookplate of Clarence S. Bemens. First edition. 8vo (26 x 17 cm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, xvi including woodcut title vignette, 272 pp. with 27 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Theodore Lane, woodcut illustrations by John Thompson; slight foxing. Original pictorial boards, uncut, preserved in a red morocco pull-off box. Abbey Life 414; Tooley 195; Prideaux p308. 1,750 [ref: 95586] Shapero Rare Books 71

72 66. egan, pierce. Real life in Ireland; or the day and night scenes, rovings, rambles and sprees... of Brian Borus, Esq...by a real Paddy. B. Bensley, London, scarce. a classic look at dublin low-life. Real Life in Ireland was initially shunned by educated readers and even a quick glance at the language and misdeeds of the central characters, Brian Boru and Sir Shawn O Doherty, reveals that such a publication might once have given offence. However, the work is in fact not unlike the works of Flann O Brien and, although written nearly 200 years ago, is very readable and very funny. First edition. 8vo. Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece designed by William Heath, title, vii pp. contents, [1] p. directions to binder, [3]-296 pp. with 18 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Henry Alken and Heath. 19th century full green morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, covers with triple gilt fillet, spine in 6 panelled compartments, gilt lettered direct to second, others richly gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt. Abbey Life, 282; Tooley ,350 [ref: 95652] 72 Shapero Rare Books

73 67. everard, Anne. Flowers from nature, with the botanical name, class, and order; and instructions for copying. Joseph Dickinson, London, a fine copy of this charming drawing Book, with subscribers list bound in. First edition. Folio (37.5 x 27.5 cm approximately). Title, dedication, list of subscribers (179 copies), 13 fine handcoloured lithograph plates after drawings by the author, each with plain overslip and leaf of letterpress. Original reddish-brown blindstamped cloth with floral pattern, lettered in gilt on upper cover; small repair to head of spine. 1,650 [ref: 86342] Shapero Rare Books 73

74 68. halkett, george r., IllustrAtor; [MArgAret hunt.]. Our Grandmother s Gowns. Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London, [1884/5]. An attractive copy of this history of women s fashion, beginning with the French Revolution which, in the author s words, altered the laws of dress as completely as it altered most other laws. 8vo. Half-title, title in red and black, 53 ff. with 24 coloured plates and several illustrations within text, 10 ff. advertisements; endpapers renewed. Original cloth printed with varicoloured paisley pattern, printed paper labels to spine and front board, cloth ties; spine worn, front board age darkened. 150 [ref: 95970] 74 Shapero Rare Books

75 69. hassell, J[ ohn]. Picturesque Rides and Walks, with excursions by water, thirty miles round the British metropolis; illustrated in a series of engravings, coloured after nature: with an historical and topographical description of the country within the compass of that circle. Hassell, London, profusely illustrated hand-coloured work on greater london and the home counties. In 1817 was published Picturesque Rides and Walks round the British Metropolis [...] These are copiously illustrated by a hundred and twenty views, which, though small, are charmingly composed and tinted, and make an interesting record of the topography of London and its suburbs in the early part of last century, when Paddington and Kensington were still rural villages. The sixty plates of the first volume are all drawn and engraved by Hassell; in the second volume the majority are by D. Havell after Hassell. (Martin Hardie) First edition. 2 volumes. Small 8vo. 120 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Modern dark blue morocco, gilt, for Asprey, all edges gilt. Abbey Scenery 218; Martin Hardie, p Tooley [ref: 87263] Shapero Rare Books 75

76 70. heath, WIllIAM, IllustrAtor; WIllIAM CoMbe. The Wars of Wellington, a narrative poem. C. Whittingham for the author, London, a Beautifully BouNd example of a fine illustrated work celebrating the victories of Wellington. Provenance: Book label of Paul Webster. First edition. 4to. vi including half-title and title, [1] f. arrangement of plates, 176 pp. with 30 hand-coloured aquatint plates; plates lightly offset to text, minor foxing. Red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, all edges gilt; joints repaired. Abbey, Life 357; Tooley ,750 [ref: 95583] 76 Shapero Rare Books

77 71. [heron, robert.] The comforts of human life; or smiles and laughter of Charles Chearful and Martin Merryfellow. In Seven Dialogues. For Oddy & Co., London, Be Not so hasty in unpleasant conclusions! Witty advice on living a more comfortable life, written in the form of a dialogue between the two title characters and their good friends, the naysayers Mr Samuel Sensitive and Mr Timothy Testy. A hand-coloured frontispiece folds out to reveal an illustration of a meeting between the four men. Robert Heron ( ) was a Scottish author and friend of Robert Burns who originally trained as a church minister. 8vo. Hand-coloured etched folding frontispiece, xi, 226 pp. Contemporary half morocco, gilt spine, top edges gilt. 250 [ref: 95975] Shapero Rare Books 77

78 72. howitt, samuel. Orme s Collection of British Field Sports illustrated in twenty beautiful coloured engravings. Edward Orme, London, 1 January 1807-[25 March 1808]. very rare. the first and only edition of the finest and most important sporting Book of the last two centuries. (Schwerdt) Tooley calls it a magnificent work, the most valuable English colour plate book on sport. Although there are fox, stag and hare hunting scenes, the majority of plates depict the shooting of different game birds in deeply rural woods and pastureland. The present copy contains the plates in an early state, printed on sheets watermarked 1804, 1805 or 1806 (Abbey records copies dated as late as 1819). The word chevau in plate 2 has an x added in pencil. a handsome copy with plates uncut. Samuel Howitt (1756/7 1822) was an English painter, illustrator and etcher of animals, hunting, horse-racing and landscape scenes. Howitt was closely associated in his art with Thomas Rowlandson, whose sister he married. Howitt s early watercolour style has similarities to Rowlandson s, but Howitt developed a more individual style as his career as a sporting artist progressed. He seems to have had an innate capacity for drawing animals, from commonplace hare and deer to exotic species that he studied in menageries. He was an animated draughtsman, and his drawings of hunts and sporting events have a fluidity and excitement fitting to the subject. (ODNB). Edward Orme ( ) was, after Rudolph Ackermann, the most important publisher of illustrated books during the short golden age of the coloured aquatint. Orme s output totalled some 700 illustrations, but his monument is his British Field Sports. Provenance: Joel Spitz (small stamps as described). Landscape folio (45.5 x 55 cm). Hand-coloured aquatint title, list of plates with aquatint vignette, 20 handcoloured, deckle-edged aquatint plates principally by W.M. Craig, J. Godby, and H. Merke after Howitt, plate captions in English and French; corrective overslips as usual on the captions to plates 2 and 9, title with repaired tear at lower corner and with small Spitz ownership stamp on verso, his stamp repeated on verso of final plate. Full dark blue morocco by the Lakeside Press Chicago, contrasting light blue title label on front cover with gilt cartouche, light blue morocco spine with raised bands titled in gilt, blue buckram slipcase. Abbey Scenery 14; Mellon/Podeschi 86; Schwerdt II, p. 53; Tooley ,000 [ref: 93234] 78 Shapero Rare Books

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80 73. hulley, t. Six Views of Cheltenham. R. Ackerman, London, A renowned spa resort since the discovery of mineral springs there in 1716, Cheltenham is famed for its fine georgian architecture, recorded in the present set of fine fresh plates. These hand-coloured aquatints were etched by H. Menke and J. Buck after drawings by T. Hulley, and depict the Montpellier Pump Room, the Assembly Room, Hygeia House, the Crescent, Well Walk, Old Wells and Pump Room. First edition. Landscape folio (37 x 29 cm). 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Modern half calf, marbled boards, morocco label to upper cover, original front wrapper with title, imprint and date surrounded by an acanthus border bound in. Abbey Scenery 93. 2,500 [ref: 93833] 80 Shapero Rare Books

81 74. [humphreys, henry noel]. The night-flyers. A series of moth pictures. Paul Jerrard, London, n.d. circa a scarce treasure for the collector. (Dunbar) Published in Paul Gerard s series Cream and Gold Presents appropriate for marriage, birthday and festive occasions for all seasons, these were the ultimate in Victorian drawing-room books. Originally brought out in a gutta-percha binding, copies easily fell apart and few have survived. The present copy is extremely fine. First edition. 8vo. Hand-coloured pictorial title-page, hand-coloured presentation page, 10 fine hand-coloured lithograph plates, text printed in red with decorative borders of grasses printed in gold. Contemporary green morocco gilt, covers with fancy gilt borders and decorative gilt centre panel, panelled spine in 6 compartments, red morocco lettering piece with gilt to second, others richly gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt. Dunbar p56. 1,800 [ref: 90969] Shapero Rare Books 81

82 75. JenKIns, JAMes. The Naval achievements of Great Britain from the Year Jenkins, London, [c.1833]. An AttrACtIVe example of the FInest pictorial record of the naval engagements of the napoleonic WArs. The present edition contains several plates of Britain s most significant victories during the Napoleonic wars. These include two plates on the Battle of the Nile, two plates on the Battle of Copenhagen and three plates on the Battle of Trafalgar. The Abbey copy lists two portraits not present here, but the plate count of coloured aquatints of sea battles accords. As a record of naval events spanning a period of over twenty years Jenkins Naval Achievements has no precedent. At no time prior to 1817 had a publisher attempted such a complete volume of documentary naval prints. It is the quality of the accuracy which makes Jenkins so valuable above all, and it is the pictures rather than the text to which the value can be attributed. (Roger Quarm, the National Maritime Museum) These Napoleonic encounters at sea are arguably the best and most attractive plates of their kind. 4to (38 x 30 cm). Dedication leaf, viii pp. introduction, ii pp. list of plates, 148 pp. including letterpress, ii pp. subscribers list, engraved title with hand-coloured vignette, 55 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, uncoloured outline etching of the Bombardment of Algiers and Battle of Trafalgar at rear, plates watermarked Whatman 1833, bound without portraits as is usual; some occasional light spotting and offsetting, the plates are generally clean and bright. Contemporary red half morocco, gilt ruled, marbled boards, spine in 6 compartments, gilt lettered direct to second and third, raised bands; spine faded, a little rubbed. Abbey Life ,000 [ref: 89959] 82 Shapero Rare Books

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84 schwerdt-duke of gloucester Copy 76. Jones, t. Sporting Idealities. S.W.Fores, London a rare series of humorous designs with impeccable provenance. The titles are: An Essay on Hunting; Easter Monday--to Wit; A flattering idea; Not so flattering; Ides [sic] of satisfaction; Ideas of pioneers; Cockney sportsmen on a strong scent; Jemmy Green buying an unter. Provenance: Bookplates of Schwerdt and Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester. First edition. 4to. 8 etchings on 4 folded sheets mounted on stubs, 2 with faces highlighted in red; some light offsetting. Old boards with later manuscript label to upper cover, plate 5 with small blemish to blank portion. Schwerdt II p [ref: 87997] 84 Shapero Rare Books

85 77. lane, theodore, IllustrAtor; pierce egan. Anecdotes (original and selected) of the turf, the chase, the ring, and the stage; the whole forming a complete panorama of the sporting world; uniting with it a book of reference and entertaining companion to the lovers of British sports. Knight & Lacy, London, Captain Barclay and the one-legged, one-armed cricketers, Boyne the herring eater, fox-hunting parsons and pagan trainers - these were the heroes of whim and impulse, of ways of life rather than fixture lists. Egan s Sporting Anecdotes are better reading than a newspaper, more alive than historians interpretations, delicate in their woodcuts and understanding of eccentricity. They are the written equivalent of aquatint engravings. (Franklin) First edition in book form. 8vo. viii including title, 304 pp. with 13 fine hand-coloured plates; O3 with neat repair obscuring a few letters. Full green polished calf by Riviere & Son, covers with triple gilt fillets, panelled spine in six compartments, gilt lettered direct in second and third, others richly gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Abbey Life 283; Franklin pp34-37; Schwerdt I, 158; Tooley ,250 [ref: 95655] Shapero Rare Books 85

86 original parts 78. leech, John, IllustrAtor; gilbert Abbott À beckett. The comic history of England [with] The comic history of Rome. Punch Office, London: rare in original parts. An excellent set of à Beckett s Comic Histories, burlesque prose works written in association with his fellow contributors from Punch magazine, of which à Beckett was the most prolific contributor from its first appearance in 1841 until the time of his death fifteen years later. Provenance: Bookplate of Alexander M. Byers with British sporting vignettes to inside of chemise. First editions. 8vo. The comic history of England, 20 parts in 19 as issued, 20 hand-coloured etched plates and 240 woodcut illustrations by John Leech; some light general toning, minor offsetting from plates. Original pictorial printed wrappers; advertisements on inside wrappers and lower wrapper, a little minor creasing and rubbing to edges, 2 parts with ink name to top-right hand corner of upper wrapper, 9 parts with small nearly invisible repair to same corner, a few other ink marks and minor blemishes. The comic history of Rome, 10 parts in 9 as issued, 10 hand-coloured etched plates by John Leech, illustrations; some light general toning, minor offsetting from plates. Original pictorial printed wrappers; advertisements on inside wrappers and lower wrapper, a little minor creasing and rubbing to edges, first part with clean split to spine and near upper joint with no loss, small hole to upper wrapper. Preserved collectively in 3 in modern cloth chemises and morocco-backed solanders by Hyman Zucker of Philadelphia. Abbey, Life 434; Tooley 296 4,500 [ref: 95951] 86 Shapero Rare Books

87 79. leech, John, IllustrAtor; robert smith surtees. Ask Mamma; Or, the Richest Commoner in England. Bradbury and Evans, London, a fine Bright copy, rare in this condition. Comic adventures in the hunting field. Provenance: Bookplate of Albert M. Ramsay-Cohn (also known as Albert M. Cohn), the Cruikshank bibliographer, & Constance, His Wife. First edition. 8vo. Hand-coloured frontispiece, [x] including printed title with vignette, [2] pp. list of engravings, 412 pp. with 12 hand-coloured plates and numerous wood engravings. Original vertical-ribbed pink cloth stamped in gilt and blind, housed in a custom red cloth solander box; spine slightly faded. Tooley [ref: 95944] Shapero Rare Books 87

88 80. leech, John, IllustrAtor; robert smith surtees. Collection of the sporting novels in the original parts. Mr Sponge s Sporting Tour; Handley Cross, Or, Mr Jorrocks s Hunt; Ask Mamma Or, the Richest Commoner in England; Plain or Ringlets; Mr Facey Romford s Hounds; Mr Romford s Hounds. Bradbury and Evans, London, A superb set in original parts of the classic comic sporting novels of the XIX century. In 1838 Surtees published in book form a collection of his magazine articles featuring Mr Jorrocks, the jolly, free-and-easy, fox-hunting grocer (to use Surtees s own description), under the title of Jorrocks s Jaunts and Jollities. A longer, more rounded Jorrocks novel, Handley Cross, appeared in 1843 and another, Hillingdon Hall, in Then came two insipid productions, The Analysis of the Hunting Field (1846) and Hawbuck Grange (1847), both revolving around fox-hunting but lacking plot or strong characterization. His first moderate success came with Mr Sponge s Sporting Tour (1853). This was followed by two novels of a different type, Ask Mamma (1858) and Plain or Ringlets? (1860), in which the sporting interest is only part of a broader picture of provincial society. Although these contain interesting social detail and some memorable characters, they too suffer from having no strong central figure to hold the plot together. His last book, published posthumously in 1865, was Mr Facey Romford s Hounds, which Surtees himself regarded as a good sequel to Mr Sponge and which some critics consider his best novel. (ODNB) 88 Shapero Rare Books

89 As a creator of comic personalities, Surtees is still readable today. Thackeray envied him his powers of observation, while William Morris considered him a master of life and ranked him with Dickens. The novels are engaging and vigorous, and abound with sharp social observation, with a keener eye than Dickens for the natural world. Perhaps Surtees most resembles the Dickens of Pickwick Papers, which was originally intended as mere supporting matter for a series of sporting illustrations to rival Jorrocks. Provenance: Bookplate of Fitz Eugene Dixon to chemise of Mr Facey Romford s Hounds; bookplate of Henry C. Taylor to chemises of remaining volumes. i) Mr Sponge s Sporting Tour. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853, FIRST ISSUE, 13/12 original parts, 13 handcoloured steel-engraved plates after John Leech, wood-engraved illustrations in the text, advertisements (varying from Tooley), original wrappers [Tooley (1954) 476], some chipping to wrappers and backstrips; ii) Handley Cross; or Mr Jorrocks s Hunt. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854, 17 original parts, 17 hand-coloured steel-engraved plates after John Leech, wood-engraved illustrations in the text, advertisements (varying from Tooley), original wrappers [Tooley (1954) 473], occasional chipping to wrappers, backstrips renewed, some other repairs, part XIV with inkblot; iii) Ask Mamma?? or the Richest Commoner in England. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1858, 13 original parts, 13 hand-coloured steel-engraved plates after John Leech, wood-engraved illustrations in the text, advertisements as Tooley, original wrappers [Tooley (1954) 472]; iv) Plain or Ringlets? London: Bradbury and Evans, 1860, 13/12 original parts, additional hand-coloured steel-engraved title, and 12 hand-coloured steel-engraved plates after John Leech, original printed wrappers [Tooley (1954) 477, but without the List of Works he calls for in part XII], some minor wear to backstrips; v) Mr Facey Romford s Hounds. London Bradbury and Evans, 1865, 12 original parts, 24 hand-coloured steel-engraved plates after Leech and Hablot K. Browne, advertisements (varying from Tooley), original wrappers [Tooley (1954) 475], backstrips repaired, part X upper wrapper soiled; FIRST EDITIONS, 8vo, all in collector s chemises sliding into book-style pull-off cases. 7,000 [ref: 96142] Shapero Rare Books 89

90 81. MArKs, J. lewis (?), IllustrAtor. The Theatrical Banquet. Or, Actors Chum. Duncome, London, [c.1820]. the first and only edition, rare. A collection of Droll Stories, Comic Tales, Laughable Occurrences, Queer Jokes, Good Things and Terrific Legends designed to be recited aloud. Only three copies are listed on OCLC. Provenance: Bookplate with cat on books. 12mo. Title, [2] pp. index, 142 pp. with 8 hand-coloured engraved aquatint plates signed Marks - probably J. Lewis Marks; small tear to edge of title but text unaffected, slight foxing. Contemporary tan calf, covers with gilt borders and edges, spine in 6 compartments, red lettering piece with gilt to second, others with gilt flower, raised bands with gilt, marbled endpapers; edges discoloured, bookplate to upper pastedown, spinge hinges worn. 650 [ref: 95978] 90 Shapero Rare Books

91 things unattempted yet 82. pocock, george. The Aeropleustic Art, or Navigation in the Air, by the Use of Kites, or Buoyant Sails. Wilson [for Sherwood, London, 1827]. An unusual book primarily concerned with the use of kites in transport - with plates beautifully hand-coloured. The work was sold with plain plates at 20s or with coloured at 25s. The book details the origin and history of the invention, going back to his own childhood. Experimenting with kites and stones, Pocock wondered and grew ambitious. The book continues with accounts of Pocock s experiments with kites, for example using kites to pull boats. Pocock also explains the mechanics, construction and the power of kites. Most notably, Pocock invented and patented the charvolant, a carriage that would be pulled by two kites attached by controllable lines, rather than horses. The name for this apparatus came for the French for kite, cerf-volant, and the French for carriage, char. This carriage could allegedly reach speeds of twenty miles per hour. The book discusses journeys from Bristol to Marlborough stating that they beat one of the London stages to Marlborough by twenty-five minutes, even though the stage had a fifteen minute head start. Of this journey Pocock comments: First edition. 4to (32.5 x 27.8 cm). Calligraphic title engraved by A. Adlard with hand-coloured aquatint vignette by P. Roberts, dedication leaf, 51 pp. with 3 hand-coloured aquatint plates by P. Roberts after T. Butterworth and S. Colman.; scattered foxing. Original drab boards with printed paper label to upper cover, rebacked with black morocco gilt, spine with raised bands; large English cartographic engraving pasted to upper pastedown. Bobins 885; not in Abbey. 4,500 [ref: 93425] Shapero Rare Books 91

92 83. rawstorne, lawrence. Gamonia: or, the Art of Preserving Game; and an improved Method of Making Plantations and Covers, explained and illustrated. Rudolph Ackermann, London, an attractive Book of shooting scenes By J. h. BaNks and others after t. J. rawlins. The work was dedicated to the Earl of Derby and the plates are actual views of places or of sporting scenes in the neighbourhood of Penwortham, near Preston. The artist also collaborated with Alken in illustrating the Life of Jack Mytton. First edition. 8vo. 15 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Publisher s olive green morocco gilt, all edges gilt, green morocco slipcase and chemise; occasional light marginal staining. Abbey Life 392; Tooley 393; Prideaux, p. 348; Schwerdt II, pg ,000 [ref: 89544] 92 Shapero Rare Books

93 84. rowlandson, thomas; CAleb QuIzeM. Annals of Sporting. Thomas Tegg, London, a Beautiful copy of a rare work that is highly esteemed on account of Rowlandson s humourous plates after Woodward and Bunbury. The real identity of Caleb Quizem Esq. remains unknown to this day. This, his masterpiece, includes the highly amusing illustrations The True Method of sitting on a Horse Mathematically Delineated and How a Man may Shoot his own Wig. First edition. 12mo. Title with vignette, viii, 104 pp. with 29 hand-coloured etched plates (1 folding). Nearcontemporary red half calf, comb-marbled sides, red speckled edges. Schwerdt II, p ,500 [ref: 95976] Shapero Rare Books 93

94 AlAs!! oh!! o!!! oh!! the MIserIes of human life turned topsy-turvy 85. rowlandson, thomas, IllustrAtor; [John britton], hilaris benevolus, & Co. The pleasures of human life... Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London, Rowlandson s riposte to Beresford s Miseries of Human Life. The topics discussed include literature, the law, fashion, and politics. First edition. 8vo. Stipple-engraved frontispiece and additional title each with coloured vignette, 5 hand-coloured etched plates after Rowlandson; some finger-marking and other light soiling throughout. 19th century half morocco; edge wear, some darkening. 650 [ref: 95646] 94 Shapero Rare Books

95 original Cloth 86. rowlandson, thomas, IllustrAtor; lewis engelbach. Naples and the Campagna Felice in a series of letters addressed to a friend in England in Ackermann, London a delightfully illustrated Book about southern italy during the early xix century. The text of this work originally appeared in Ackermann s Repository of the Arts between 1809 and 1813 under the title Letters from Italy. Of the illustrations, however, only the folding map was previously published. No graphic artist has surpassed Rowlandson in presenting the patterned activity of day-to-day communal existence. (Ray, 26) First edition. 8vo. Engraved title with hand-coloured vignette, 4 pp. including printed title, 400 pp. with 17 handcoloured aquatint plates including 2 maps (1 folding), [10] pp. index, arrangement of plates. Original reddishbrown cloth gilt, preserved in morocco-backed slipcase with cloth chemise. Abbey Travel 166; Tooley ,250 [ref: 95585] Shapero Rare Books 95

96 FIne In original Cloth 87. rowlandson, thomas, IllustrAtor; oliver goldsmith. The Vicar Of Wakefield; A Tale. R. Ackermann, London, a superb example, rare in original cloth. The present edition is a reissue of Rowlandson s characteristic hand-coloured plates, first published in Goldsmith s original work, meanwhile, was first published in 1766 and tells the story of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation and deception. Dr Samuel Johnston claims that the book was published first and foremost out of financial necessity: Wynne Jeudwine was a great connoisseur with a first class library of illustrated books, collected with an eye for condition. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Sir Charles Philip Huntington; Scorpion book label of Wynne Jeudwine, one-time editor of Apollo magazine; unidentified morocco book label. 8vo. Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, title, [1] f. advertisement, [1] f. introduction, [5]-8 pp. memoirs of Oliver Goldsmith, 254 pp. with 23 hand-coloured aquatint plates; light offsetting from plates. Publisher s orange blindtooled cloth, spine gilt, preserved in modern orange cloth chemise and orange morocco-backed cloth slipcase, top edge gilt; bookplates to front pastedowns, bookseller s catalogue description tipped onto blank terminal leaf; some bumping to corners and spine ends. Tooley [ref: 95656] 96 Shapero Rare Books

97 In original boards 88. [rowlandson, thomas, IllustrAtor; WIllIAM CoMbe.] Poetical Magazine; Dedicated to the Lovers of the Muse, by the Agent of the Goddess, R. Ackermann. R. Ackermann s Repository of the Arts, London, the true first appearance of doctor syntax. Combining light-hearted satire of William Gilpin s theory of the picturesque in art with a central character modelled on Cervantes Don Quixote and Henry Fielding s Parson Adams, Combe created a loveable eccentric whose misadventures on the road structure the Tour. For over a century the many editions and numerous imitations of the Tour attested to the popularity of Combe s humourous hero. (DNB) This typically ambitious Ackermann publication includes the original appearance, in serial form, of Combe s first Tour of Dr. Syntax under the title of The Schoolmaster s Tour, which runs through all four volumes. It was published in book-form under the title Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque in Rare in the original publisher s boards. First edition. 4 volumes. 8vo. Engraved title, 404 pp. without advertisement folio between pp. 112 and 113, [4] pp. index; engraved title, 372 pp., [4] pp. index with top edge unopened; engraved title, 364 pp. without advertisement folio between pp. 287 and 288, [4] pp. index with top edge unopened; engraved title, 344 pp., [4] pp. index; in total 52 aquatint plates (all but 2 hand-coloured), including 28 for the Schoolmaster s Tour and others by Rowlandson; some minor cocking and light foxing, one plate slightly frayed at edges and darkened. Publisher s boards with paper label to spines, presented in later cloth chemise and morocco-backed box with faux spines; bumping and rubbing to edges, some loss to paper at spines, notably vol. IV, splitting to joints, a few scuffs to box. Tooley ,200 [ref: 95657] Shapero Rare Books 97

98 uncut In original boards 89. rowlandson, thomas, IllustrAtor; WIllIAM CoMbe. The English Dance of Death [with] The Dance of Life. Ackermann, London, indispensable to any rowlandson collection, one of the essential pivots of any colour plate library. (Tooley) The idea of Death as the universal predator, stretching out his bony hand to seize his prey at moments inopportune and unexpected, showing the vanity of human life and the futility of human pleasures and pursuits, had been pictured by many artists before Rowlandson, notably Holbein... These may have inspired Rowlandson but in his Dance of Death he takes his characters from the world around him, sees them in his own original way, and imparts to the subject his own satirical humour, with its curious combination of the sublime and the ludicrous. It is obvious at a glance that the artist bestowed exceptional care on the illustrations for this book. The union of the gruesome and the grotesque appealed strongly to his imagination, and in completeness of detail and carefulness of grouping the illustrations excel nearly all his other work. The hand-colouring also has been delicately and judiciously applied. Combe s versification is full of wit and vigour... The Dance of Life is full of cheerful and humorous satire of life and its follies. (Hardie) A fine and remarkable set. First editions. 3 volumes. 8vo (26 x 16 cm). The English Dance of Death: hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, engraved title with vignette, viii including [6] pp. advertisements, [4] pp. index, 295 pp. with 36 coloured plates; printed title, [4] pp. index, 299 pp. with 36 coloured plates; slight foxing to edges. The Dance of Life: coloured frontispiece, engraved title with vignette, printed title, ii pp. advertisements, ii. pp. index, 285 pp. with 26 coloured plates, [1] f. advertisements; slight foxing to edges. Watermarks Alston 1814, 1815 and 0 / 1817 indicating earliest issues of the plates. original Boards, uncut, buckram chemises and slipcases; slipcases slightly worn. Hardie ; Abbey Life 263 and 264; Tooley 411 and ,000 [ref: 95582] 98 Shapero Rare Books

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100 90. sala, george Augustus. The Great Exhibition. Wot is to Be By Vates Secundus. The Committee of the Society for Keeping Things in their Places [i.e. Ackermann], London, highly colourful work of BitiNg satire By one of dickens young men. A full page is dedicated to each of the countries participating in the 1851 Great Exhibition, with pictures of the wares they hope to exhibit accompanied by comical captions, also by Sala himself. The full title of the work reads: Wot is to Be or probable results of the industry of all nations in the year 51. Showing what is to be exhibited, who is to exhibit it...in short, how it s all going to be done. By Vates Secundus (who can see thro a stone wall as well as his neighbours.) The Great Exhibition... was first published when Sala was just 21, after he became the apprentice to an engraver. Before then he had perfected his artistic craft painting sets in London theatres, as well as illustrating novels. Sala went on to work as a journalist after his talent for writing was spotted by Charles Dickens. Landscape 8vo., folding 23-part hand-coloured etched strip panorama (13 x cm., approx.), publisher s grey cloth with pictorial hand-coloured title to First edition. upper cover. 1,800 [ref: 95984] 100 Shapero Rare Books

101 91. seymour, robert. The Heiress. A farce in six plates. Thomas McLean, London, The sketches that appear on these plates include Military Dandies, The Card Party, Flirting with the Captain, and The Metamorphose, as well as several characters who would not be out of place among the cast of the card game Happy Families: for instance, Signor Scratchendotti, Professor of Drawing and Carl Matilda von Grump, Professor of Music. Robert Seymour (1798? 1836) began his career as an illustrator under the pseudonym Short Shanks. He was particularly known for his political caricatures, which circulated widely in journals such as The Looking-Glass, or McLean s Monthly. He completed the illustrations for Dickens Pickwick Papers shortly before his death. Oblong folio. 6 hand-coloured etched plates. Original printed wrappers, preserved in a brown cloth solander box. Allingham, Robert Seymour: A Biographical Sketch. 1,500 [ref: 95995] Shapero Rare Books 101

102 92. WestAll, WIllIAM; samuel owen. Picturesque tour of the River Thames. R. Ackermann, London, a classic collection of thames views. This book, along with Ireland s views and Boydell s work, helped establish a canon of most-favoured views of the Thames from the source to the sea: The colouring is less subdued than Boydell s, and there are more un-aquatinted spaces where the interpretation has been left to the colour-washing artist. This gives the plates a greater resemblance to spontaneous water-colour drawings but leads inevitably to a greater disparity between individual copies. (Abbey) First edition. 4to. Folding map, 24 fine hand-coloured plates and 2 hand-coloured vignettes; usual light offsetting to plates. Later red half morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Abbey Scenery, 435; Adams, London Illustrated 157; Tooley p265. 3,750 [ref: 84127] 102 Shapero Rare Books

103 93. WestMACott, ChArles (ChArles Molloy). The English spy: an original work, characteristic, satirical, and humorous. Comprising scenes and sketches in every rank of society, being portraits of the illustrious, eminent, eccentric, and notorious. Drawn from the life by Bernard Blackmantle. Sherwood, London, one of the most renowned english colour plate Books, magnificently presented. A political satire on high society, the present work includes chapters on Eton, Oxford, London, Brighton, the Isle of Wight and other fashionable Georgian resorts. Both the text and illustrations are extremely vivid, and the work features some rather coarse language. The fact that many of its subjects were also clearly recognisable to a contemporary readership further contributed to the book s controversy. The bibliographer Gordon Ray has described it as the liveliest and most authentic of a number of aquatint-illustrated books of the 1820s depicting the raffish life of English pleasure seekers. Of the 71 aquatint plates, 68 are by Robert Cruikshank, two are by Thomas Rowlandson, one is by T. Wageman, and one is by G. M. Brightly. Though The English Spy was written and published under the pseudonym Bernard Blackmantle, we now know that the author was the British journalist Charles Molloy Westmacott ( ), who spent his entire working life satirising and disparaging English high society. The first issue is distinguished by two features: plate 28, on page 389 of volume 1, is misdated 1824; and page 222 in volume 2 is blank. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of C. Robert Bignold. First edition, first issue. 2 volumes. 8vo. xxiv, 417, [1] pp.; xi, 399, [1] pp; with 71 hand-coloured aquatint plates and 1 uncoloured woodcut plate, numerous woodcuts in the text. Full red morocco gilt extra by Tout, covers with triple gilt fillets, decorative corners, spines in 6 panelled compartments, gilt lettered direct in second and fourth, others richly gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt, others uncut, original cloth covers and spines bound-in, well preserved in modern redmorocco-backed solander box with faux ribbed spines by Zaehnsdorf; bookplate to verso of upper board. Abbey Life 325; Tooley 504; Prideaux pp ,250 [ref: 95587] Shapero Rare Books 103

104 the age of pochoir superb set of Art deco pochoir prints 94. AllIer, paul. Silhouettes de Femmes. [Galerie Lutetia?] [Paris, c.1925]. a rare set. Allier ( ) studied at the Écoles des Beaux-Arts and was a major contributor to Femina, Le Jardin des Modes and Vogue. He was best known for his pioneering concept of small and select limited editions, compiled in collaboration with the Galerie Lutetia in Paris, with each image numbered and signed by hand. No copies were found on Copac or at auction. Small folio (35 x 25.5 cm). 4 pochoir plates with additional gold highlights, each plate signed and titled by the artist in pencil, below each plate a small etching of a lady holding an envelope with the number 153/300, handmade paper. Loose as issued in original publisher s printed wrappers. 2,000 [ref: 95832] 104 Shapero Rare Books

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106 95. [bakst] - reau, louis, denis roche, V. svetlov, A. tessier. Inedited Works of Bakst. Brentano s, New York, a fine example of Bakst s previously unpublished pieces. An outstanding painter, Bakst is best remembered for the costumes and theatrical sets he designed for Diaghilev s Ballet Russes. This work examines many of the artist s other accomplishments. The magnificent illustrations, which include 20 hand-coloured phototype plates, were produced in the French atelier of Daniel Jacomet, one of the leading practitioners of pochoir. They are accompanied by four essays that explore Bakst s life, his contribution to the development of the modern art of Western Europe and his unique interpretation of music. Copies of this work are often found incomplete, as most have been taken apart for their beautiful plates. This example is very unusual for its additional plates and delicate vignette bound in. Folio (32.7 x 26.2 cm). no. 12 of 600 copies. 127, [2] pp. with 30 plates by Bakst, including 20 pochoir, 5 colour printed and mounted and 5 plain, all with lettered tissue guards, colour vignette (normally pasted on publisher s binding) bound in as plate, black and white and colour illustrations in text, 6 additional tipped-in colour printed plates, including 4 from W. A. Propert s The Russian Ballet in Western Europe, ; some offsetting from colour plates as usual. Contemporary green morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine; slightly rubbed. 5,250 [ref: 95541] 106 Shapero Rare Books

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108 96. barbier, george. Le Bonheur du Jour ou les Graces à la Mode, texte et dessins par George Barbier. Chez Meyniel, Paris, The sixteen plates of Le Bonheur du Jour are amongst the largest and most carefully meditated of Barbier s designs. So ambitious was this album that it took him from 1920 to 1924 to complete it to his satisfaction. A study of manners and fashion, it was designed to appeal both to those who like to link the present to the past, and to observers of the current scene. Barbier begins his introduction with a summary of fashion illustration from the XVI century onwards, finding a specific predecessor for his own work in that of Horace Vernet s record of First Empire costume, Incroyables et merveilleuses, published around a hundred years earlier. Barbier saw similarities between the period after the Napoleonic Wars and his own post-great War era, with dandies and their ladies free at last to enjoy frivolities and sensuality. Fine example complete with introduction and index. First edition. Landscape folio (46 x 33.2 cm). [1] ll. introduction, [1] ll. index, 16 colour pochoir lithographs by Henri Reidel after Barbier with fully coloured backgrounds. Original glassine-covered wrappers with pictorial design by Barbier, blind stamp of Canson & Montgolfier to title, housed in blue portfolio. Colas 217; Ray, Art Deco Book in France pp ,500 [ref: 95547] 108 Shapero Rare Books

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110 97. barbier, george. Dix-sept dessins... sur Le cantique des cantiques, traduction Française de A La Belle Édition, Paris, fine copy in original wrappers. one of only 25 copies on PaPier vergé with an extra suite of plates. Magnificent illustrations for the classically-themed story of The Song of Songs elaborately printed in the bold palette of black, and burnished gold. George Barbier s depiction of figures, animals and plants is clearly inspired by both Greek and Roman imagery while retaining the seductive elegance of the early Art Deco. 4to (23.7 x 22.4 cm). no. 63 of 240 copies. 17 designs including 13 plates by Barbier printed in black and gold, with an extra suite in Black and white. Original pictorial wrappers and glassine, housed in modern black cloth clamshell box. 9,500 [ref: 95578] 110 Shapero Rare Books

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112 98. barbier, george. Falbalas & Fanfreluches. Almanach des Modes presentes, passées et futures pour 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925 and Meynial, Paris, A complete set of this exquisite series displaying fashion in magnificent and imaginative illustrations. The series includes Barbier s depiction of the seven deadly sins (in the volume for 1925). Here one finds a great theme of the Western iconographical tradition at home in Barbier s special world. Anger shows a modish couple quarelling in a formal garden; Envy is displayed by a maid regarding her mistress as she steps from a Rolls Royce; and Gluttony is depicted as a gourmandise. Falbalas et fanfreluches was the last of Barbier s books to reflect contemporary life. Its special value lies in the unique way in which it catches the tone and mood of les années vingts. First edition. 5 volumes. 8vo (25.2 x 17 cm). Each issue with colour vignette to title and 12 colour pochoir plates (60 in total), introductory text by Colette. Loose as issued in original coloured pictorial wrappers by Barbier, original glassine, housed in grey clamshell box with orange morocco lettering piece; glassine for 1922 partly perished. Gaudriault p ,000 [ref: 95549] 112 Shapero Rare Books

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114 99. barbier, george. La Guirlande des Mois. Première [-cinquième] année. Meynial, Paris, A fine, complete set of this celebrated periodical, which, although published in a small format due to wartime austerity, is nevertheless extremely luxurious. The early volumes of these beautiful little annual almanacs often include images of men in military uniform. In addition to the pochoir illustrations, Barbier contributed articles from 1918 to 1921 on such topics as the Ballets Russes, epigrams, opera, and the pleasures of love. The fashions depicted show a radical post-war shift in style with the adoption of shorter and fuller skirts, backless gowns, and fabrics that incorporated more risqué elements of the tango. 5 volumes. 12mo (12.4 x 8.4 cm). 31 colour pochoir lithograph plates, illustrations in the text. Original pictorial satin over Bodoni boards with pictorial dust-wrappers, original decorated slipcases. The illustrations for the first three volumes printed by Maquet, those for the 1920 volume printed by Schmied, those for the final volume executed by Robert Coulouma. Carteret Illustres IV, 58. 6,500 [ref: 95551] 114 Shapero Rare Books

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116 100. barbier, george. Vingt-Cinq costumes pour le théâtre. Bloch and Meynial, Paris, Superb collection of exquisite theatrical costume designs. With a portrait frontispiece of Barbier by his friend and rival Charles Martin. First edition. 4to (32.2 x 24.4 cm). no. 69 of 275 copies. Preface by Edmond Jaloux. Etched frontispiece portrait of Barbier by Charles Martin, 25 tipped-in pochoir costume plates with lettered tissue guards. Original pictorial wrappers, glassine dust wrapper. Colas ,000 [ref: 95564] 116 Shapero Rare Books

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118 WIth original WAterColours And proof suites 101. barbier, george And georges lepape (IllustrAtors); pierre louys. Aphrodite. Les Bibliophiles De L Amerique Latine, Paris, a luxurious edition limited to 150 copies. Aphrodite was the seventh book published by the Bibliophile Society of Latin America. The work comprises more than 100 compositions by these two prominent artists, engraved in wood by Pierre Bouchet, who also collaborated with Pierre Jean Mathan in the printing of the book. George Barbier began working on these illustrations in the 1920s but only managed to complete about thirty drawings before his death in Pierre Bouchet then entrusted the task to Georges Lepape, who finished the work of his illustrious predecessor. 2 volumes. Large 8vo (28 x 21.2 cm). no. xii of XV copies on JaPon spécial. 52 wood-engraved colour plates, engraved on wood by Pierre Bouchet, some heightened with gold, silver, gouache and additional colour by hand, 2 duplicate suites of plates at the end of each volume, one au trait and one en couleurs, initials and vignettes printed in gold throughout, original watercolour by Lepape at the beginning of volume II and menu for a dinner of the Bibliophiles de l Amérique Latine dated 1952 with illustration in gold signed by Bouchet and numbered 10/60 in pencil, publisher s illustrated wrappers titled in gilt, initials in gilt, all pages within a six line blue border. Contemporary red morocco, gilt, 2 original watercolours by Barbier inset into upper board of each volume, housed in contemporary slipcase. 19,500 [ref: 95561] 118 Shapero Rare Books

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120 102. [barbier, george; brunelleschi]. Journal des Dames et des Modes. Supplément. Paris, ; 1st June st August This journal, which borrowed both the title and format of La Mésangère s periodical of a hundred years before, was founded by Tom Antonginigini, the secretary, friend and biographer of the poet and collector Gabriele D Annunzio ( ), whom Antonginigini followed to Paris from Italy in The journal, which features colour pochoirs by Barbier, Bakst, Brunelleschi, Dammy and Martin, was meant as a record of contemporary Parisian culture and fashion. Perhaps less deliberately, it also documents the transition from the end of the Belle Époque to a radically different period in world history. The journal ceased publication in August 1914 due to the outbreak of the First World War. Octavo (22.7 x 14.8 cm). One of 1250 on holland paper. Supplements only, seventy nine issues, all published; numbered with one unnumbered. Loose as issued in original titled wrappers. 12,500 [ref: 96249] 120 Shapero Rare Books

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122 103. barbier, george; Choderlos de laclos. Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Le Vasseur, Paris, BarBier s last major work. That Barbier would turn his attention to Choderlos de Laclos great novel of sexual intrigue was inevitable; he was even prepared to illustrate the text rather than use it as a point of departure for his own decorative compositions, as in other works. Though he did not neglect the opportunities for decorative treatment of setting and costume that the novel provided, he stuck to the narrative and presented all the big scenes in its intricate plot. In doing so, Barbier gives us the finest illustrations of the novel since Monnet and Gérard s 1796 edition. 2 volumes. 4to (26.6 x 19.9 cm). no. 548 of 720 copies. Half-title, title, v, 219 pp.; half-title, title, 217 pp., 20 pochoir plates and illustrationsr. Original printed pictorial wrappers with glassine, uncut, cream watered silk covered slipcase; lightly soiled. 2,000 [ref: 95560] 122 Shapero Rare Books

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124 104. [barbier, george; FrAnCoIs-louIs schmied]; MArCel schwob. Vies Imaginaires. Le Livre Contemporain, Paris, No. 59 of 120 copies created specially for members of le livre contemporain under the direction of E. de Crauzat and A. Bertaut. This copy belonged to Monsieur C. Gauthier Lathuille. The work itself is a collection of 22 semi-biographical short stories about Petronius, Lucretius, Paolo Ucello, Pocahontas, William Kidd and other historical figures, first published in the newspaper Le Journal between 1894 and Incorporating myth and fantasy with historical facts, they are considered among the first of the genre of biographical fiction. Jorge Luis Borges was extremely fond of Schwob s writing. Barbier s plates are devoted to the subjects that interested him most. While preserving the settings and costumes of their times, he makes them all inhabitants of an elegant, ambiguous country in which conventional expectations are invariably disappointed. Of particular note are the frontispiece, showing the muse of intimate history gazing into a globe and dictating what she sees to Cupid; Clodia accompanying her brother to a Roman brothel; and Pocahontas meeting Captain John Smith. Provenance: Monsieur C. Gauthier-Lathuille (own copy). 4to (27.6 x 24.1 cm). With 60 colour pochoir engravings, including 15 hors text and 42 in text, wood-engraved by Pierre Bouchet. Loose as issued in original wrappers with fine pochoir illustration to upper cover, contemporary slipcase and chemise. Georges Rivière, Catalogue 1967, No. 153; Ritchie 30; B. Martorelli, George Barbier, The Birth of Art Deco, page 139; Monod 10223; Carteret IV, ,000 [ref: ] 124 Shapero Rare Books

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126 105. barbier, george, IllustrAtor; Albert FlAMent. Personnages de Comédie. Chez Meynial, Paris, a fine copy of this important collaboration BetweeN BarBier and schmied, signed By BarBier in pencil. luxuriously BouNd By the leading design BiNder in paris, henri creuzevault. One of the most important works by Barbier, rivalled only by his Le bonheur du jour. Albert Flament s text of 1914 is a diffuse meditation, half-waking and half-dreaming, which takes as its point of departure the great roles of world theatre. Barbier s vignettes have a general relevance to the theme of acting but most of his plates, at least one of which dates from 1916, are simply magnificent decorative compositions. George Barbier ( ), was the supreme decorative designer of the Art Deco movement, whose work centred on the human figure, displayed in a thousand different settings and costumes. He had the faculty, as Valéry wrote, of embodying myth through images in such a way that workers in mere words could only look on in awe. Folio (37.2 x 29.2 cm), no. 124 of 150 copies. Illustrated half-title with colour wood-engraved design, limitation verso, title with colour wood-engraved Harlequin vignette, 12 full wood-engraved colour plates, 14 ll. of text with 2 large vignettes, 22 wood-engraved colour four-line initials as well as decorative devices in the text, many heightened in silver and gold, final wood-engraved colour vignette, list of plates and colophon, each leaf of text surrounded by decorative frame, additional colour lithograph after Barbier from another work pasted on blank leaf and bound at the end. Illustrations engraved in wood by F. L. Schmied and printed in collaboration with Pierre Bouchet and Louis Bracons. Contemporary half blue morocco over marbled boards by Creuzevault, binder s stamp to recto of upper fly leaf, spine with raised bands, gilt tooling and decorative inlays in compartments, illustrated upper wrapper bound in. Preserved in thin card slipcase. 15,000 [ref: 96165] 126 Shapero Rare Books

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128 106. barbier, george, IllustrAtor; henri de regnier. Les Rencontres de M. de Bréot. Mornay, Paris, one of 46 copies on hollande paper from an edition of 1000 copies. Small 4to (20 x 17 cm). 287 pp. with 47 pochoir illustrations by Barbier and additional suite of illustrations on JaPon PaPer. Text and suite both in original pictorial wrappers with original glassine, modern box, morocco label. 1,250 [ref: 95567] 128 Shapero Rare Books

129 107. barbier, george, IllustrAtor; henri de régnier. L Escapade. Mornay, Paris, A charming illustrated edition of the novel originally published in The text of L Escapade [The Getaway], written with Régnier s characteristically elaborate libertinism and in a highly decorative style (Harvey & Heseltine, 597-8), is wonderfully complemented by 65 illustrations by Barbier. 8vo (20.6 x 15.5 cm). no. 840 of 1000 copies. 285 pp. with 65 pochoir illustrations after Barbier. Original pictorial wrappers and glassine, modern grey box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. 750 [ref: 95570] Shapero Rare Books 129

130 presentation Copy signed by barbier 108. barbier, george (IllustrAtor); MAurICe de guérin. Poèmes en Prose précédes d une Petite Lettre sur les Mythes par Paul Valéry. A. Blaizot, Paris, Maurice de Guérin ( ) was a French Romantic poet who achieved cult status in his lifetime as one of the first writers of prose poems. In the present work, George Barbier ( ) provides beautiful illustrations of the mythological Centaur and the Bacchante, a priestess of Bacchus. The charming presentation inscription reads: À Mademoiselle Violette Gath / ces petites divinités d autrefois, déjà touchées par la mélancolie d aujourd hui / avec les respectueux compliments de l artiste / George Barbier / juin [To Miss Violette Garth / These small deities of days past, already touched by the melancholy of today / With respectful compliments of the artist George Barbier / June 1928]. First edition. 4to (26 x 21 cm). no. 101 of 150 copies. xviii, xxii, xxviii. Cover design, 3 pictorial initials and 27 text illustrations wood-engraved by Pierre Bouchet and printed in colour after designs by Barbier. Presentation copy, signed By BarBier on front blank. Loose as issued in original pictorial wrappers after Barbier, publisher s burgundy cloth chemise and slipcase. Carteret IV, 195; Méhé, II, ; Ritchie 25. 7,500 [ref: 94761] 130 Shapero Rare Books

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132 109. barbier, george, IllustrAtor; richard le gallienne. The romance of perfume. Richard Hudnut (William Edwin Rudge), New York and Paris, This elegant book was undoubtedly published to commemorate the opening of Richard Hudnut s perfumery in Paris. Le Gallienne s text investigates the importance and ceremonial uses of perfume throughout the ages in many cultures. It is accompanied by a special pamphlet entitled At 20 Rue de la Paix advertising Hudnut s shop. Both the book and pamphlet contain colour plates by the artist and costume designer George Barbier. First edition. 8vo (25.3 x 17 cm). 46 pp. with 8 colour plates, ribbon-stiched booklet in back pocket with further 4 plates. Original cream pictorial boards, slipcase. 375 [ref: 95574] 132 Shapero Rare Books

133 110. barbier, george, IllustrAtor; théophile gauthier. Le roman de la momie. Mornay, Paris, Théophile Gauthier s novel was undoubtedly inspired by the Orientalism that dominated French culture in the middle of the XIX century. The text first appeared in parts in Le Moniteur universel between March and May 1857, and was published in book form in vo (20.2 x 16 cm). no. 227 of pp. with coloured wood-engraved illustrations by Gasperini after Barbier. Original pictorial wrappers. 850 [ref: 95569] Shapero Rare Books 133

134 111. barbier, george; MIoMAndre, FrAnCIs de. Dessins sur les Danses de Vaslav Nijinsky. La belle édition, Paris, fresh example of the first french edition, from the deluxe part of the limited run printed in a large format on JaPon paper. one of only 50 copies, signed By BarBier, miomandre and the editor; very rare. The designs, although somewhat fantastic in treatment, do convey the impression produced by Nijinsky in his famous characters. The foreword [by Francis de Miomandre] is excellent. (Beaumont) In his brief time, Nijinsky was the most famous male dancer in the world, a preeminence due in part to his extraordinary virtuosity. But it was not his virtuosity alone that made him such a powerful stage presence. As contemporary reports make clear, Nijinsky was a great and unusual actor. The ideal Fokine interpreter, he was able to expand a simple choreographic design into a rich dramatic portrait, using, in keeping with Fokine s dicta, the whole body as an expressive instrument. Nijinsky s influence as a dancer was immediate and huge. That ballet, nearly extinguished artistically in western Europe, was revived in this century is due to him and other great dancers of his generation, such as Anna Pavlova and Karsavina, as well as to Diaghilev. That male ballet, utterly extinguished, was also revived is due to him preeminently. Nijinsky was the first real ballet star of the male sex that Europe had seen since the retirement of Auguste Vestris nearly a century earlier. He initiated a renaissance. (Cohen, The International Encyclopedia of Dance Vol. 4, pp ) First edition. Large folio (40 x 28.8 cm). Title, 8 pp., plate with black and white vignette, 12 full-page coloured illustrations printed on rectos only, printer s leaf at end includes a drawing (possibly by Barbier - not signed) for the second picture of the book. Original pictorial wrappers. Beaumont, A Bibliography of Dancing, p.6; Carteret, Livres illustres modernes IV, p.58. 9,500 [ref: 95412] 134 Shapero Rare Books

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136 112. barbier, george; rené boylesve. Le Carrosse aux deux lézards verts. Conte de fées. Editions de la Guirlande, Paris, Boylesve s modern fairy tale The coach pulled by two green lizards, originally published in 1920, is here richly illustrated by Barbier. Complete with a limitation page, this is one of 225 copies printed on Arches. A fine example in original wrappers. First edition, 4to (29.2 x 19.7 cm). no. 162 of 300 copies. 9 plates and multiple illustrations in text after Barbier, all coloured by J. Saudé. Loose in original wrappers as issued, original glassine, modern green morocco-backed foldover box. 2,750 [ref: 95565] 136 Shapero Rare Books

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138 Art deco rarity 113. barbier, george; umberto brunelleschi, et Al. La Guirlande d art et de la litterature. Francois Bernouard, Paris, a rare complete set of this monthly periodical, significant Both for its text and its art deco imagery. George Barbier ( ), was the supreme decorative designer of the Art Deco movement, whose work centred on the human figure, displayed in a thousand different settings and costumes. He had the faculty, as Valéry wrote, of embodying myth through images in such a way that workers in mere words could only look on in awe. His drawings were rendered into print by Jean Saudé, the leading exponent of pochoir, whose prints have a vibrancy of colour that has rarely been matched. First edition. Royal 8vo. 11 issues (all published), 57 full-page hors text colour pochoir lithographs by Jean Saudé, colour illustrations in the text. Original titled and illustrated wrappers. Colas 1362; Hiler ,500 [ref: 96250] 138 Shapero Rare Books

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140 WIth 3 original zinc printing plates 114. barbier, george; VAudoyer, [JeAn-louIs]. Album dédié a Tamar Karsavina. Corrard, Paris, a unique ensemble comprising a mint copy of BarBier s early masterpiece, trial proof prints and original zinc printing plates. The cover design pays homage to Beardsley [...] and its 12 pochoir plates depict Karsavina in her principal parts. That their purpose is again to stir the emotion and delight the eye of the viewer, not to document the performance, is demonstrated by Le spectre de la rose, glimpsed at the moment when the phantom lover, of whom the young girl has dreamed after the ball, is about to disappear as the rose drops from her hand. (Ray). The copy comes with four loose black and white trial proofs that correspond to plates 1, 7, 11 and 12 in the book. Very unusually, the proofs incorporate embossed elements, which do not appear in the final version of the plates. Having experimented with the idea, the publisher opted in the end for flat printing, either to avoid high costs or possibly because the technique did not work well with pochoir colouring. The three original printing plates offered here were used for illustrations 2, 7 and 10 in the book. Together with the trial proofs they give a clear picture of complexity of the process of conceiving and producing a high quality illustrated work. First edition. Folio (33.5 x 27.5 cm). no. 276 of 500 copies (plus 12 on japon) printed on papier vélin d arches, initialled by the publisher. Title with pictorial vignette to head and verso, 18 pp., 12 full-page coloured illustrations on rectos only, printer s leaf at end. Original pictorial wrappers. 4 proof plates in black and white (loose) and 3 original zinc printing plates. Ray, Art Deco, p.31; Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs: A Bibliography and Iconography, ,500 [ref: 95414] 140 Shapero Rare Books

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142 115. benedictus, edouard; JeAn saudé. Variations. Levy, Paris, [1924]. fine complete example of this folio album with stunning pochoir plates coloured By JeaN saudé. These magnificent designs were created by Benedictus ( ), one of the most popular artists in stencil printing. He was also a successful writer and chemist and gained renown for an influential article published in L Art décoratif in The collection includes a number of patterns suitable for woven or printed clothing as well as for upholstery. Folio (49.5 x 38 cm). Title, 20 pochoir lithographs by J. Saudé after Benedictus. Original cloth-backed black boards, pochoir plate to upper cover, original ties; rebacked, neat repairs to extremities. 5,000 [ref: 95137] 142 Shapero Rare Books

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144 WIth An original drawing by brunelleschi 116. brunelleschi, umberto - rené, boylesve. La Leçon d amour dans un parc. Editions Albin Michel, Paris, A superb example, one of ten CopIes on IMperIAl JApAn. La Leçon d amour dans un parc is one of the best known novels by the French writer and literary critic René Tardiveau ( ), who wrote under the pseudonym René Boylesve. Originally published in 1902, the novel was inspired by nostalgia for the pre-revolutionary XVIII century French court in which flirtation, debauchery and sexual intrigue spiced up the monotony of court life. This edition is illustrated by the Italian painter Umberto Brunelleschi ( ), who was well known for his work for the Gazette du Bon Ton and the Journal des Dames et des Modes. His designs for La Leçon d amour dans un parc are some of his best experiments in the field of erotic illustration. Folio (34 x 27 cm). 21 original erotic hors text pochoir etchings, blank on verso, 1 original drawing (p. 158) and 2 extra suites of erotic etchings with remarqués, one on japan mince and one on madagascar. Original title and illustrated wrappers, watercolour and extra suits in glassine wrappers, original boards and matching slipcase. Monod 1855; Carteret IV, 80. 7,500 [ref: 96248] 144 Shapero Rare Books

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146 117. brunelleschi, umberto (ArtIst); gérard d houville. Les Masques et les Personnages de la Comédie Italienne. Aux Bureaux du Journal des Dames et des Modes, Paris, A fine example complete with a full set of 12 engraved plates by Reidel after Brunelleschi, depicting theatrical characters including Harlequin, Scaramouche and Pierrot. The colourful costumed characters are shown on the foreground against imaginative stage sets with the outlines of luxurious Florentine palaces and gardens. This is an early work by the Italian painter and stage designer Umberto Brunelleschi ( ), who was also well known for his illustrations in the Gazette du Bon Ton and the Journal des Dames et des Modes. Folio (39 x 52 cm). no. 22 of 415 copies on arches PaPer. Half-title, title, [4] pp. introduction, index, 12 colour pochoir plates; two small defects to blank margin of last plate. Contemporary half vellum, title in black and red and vignette painted on spine, upper wrapper bound in; slightly rubbed, lower margin of wrapper slightly cut. Colas 1499; Hiler ,500 [ref: 94736] 146 Shapero Rare Books

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148 WIth An original WAterColour by brunelleschi 118. brunelleschi, umberto; pierre louys. Les Aventures du Roi Pausole. L Estampe Moderne, Paris, one of 6 special deluxe copies on imperial JaPon paper with a signed original watercolour By BruNelleschi inspired By the work But Not reproduced, an addition unique to this edition, making it the most prized among collectors. These erotic plates after Brunelleschi are superbly coloured by Jean Saudé, with a bright sensuality that exemplifies the art of pochoir. Provenance: Morocco book-label initialled AB. Small 4to. no. 5 of 524 copies. Printed in blue & black, illustrations after Umberto Brunelleschi comprising pochoir frontispiece in 5 states (4 illustrating the colour-stencil process and one the finished image), one original watercolour over pencil drawing signed by the artist, 12 pochoir plates including 9 hors text, and 4 pochoir headpieces etched by Georges Gorvel and coloured by Jean Saudé, with suite of 12 signed black plates, tissue guards, frontispiece states and original artwork loose as issued. Publisher s wrappers printed in blue & black with device, housed in moroccobacked patterned boards and matching morocco-edged slip-case; some browning around spine edges with small split near head of spine, slipcase slightly rubbed with slight splitting, label to verso of upper board. 15,000 [ref: 95484] 148 Shapero Rare Books

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150 119. ColIn, paul. Le Tumulte Noir. Editions d Art, Paris, spectacular scenes from the Jazz age. Le Tumulte Noir was designed for and sold at the Bal Nègre, a one-night-only event organised by Colin as a tribute to Paris black craze. The album is divided into two parts. The first is dedicated to Josephine Baker and black musicians and dancers. Exquisitely stylised, it is Paul Colin at his very best. The second part is a satire of Paris under the spell of the Charleston. Following in the steps of Sem, Colin satirises the Parisian music hall stars of the moment: Mistinguett, Maurice Chevalier, Cecile Sorel and the Dolly Sisters, as well as the chansonniers Rip and Saint-Granier, the cubist Jean Borlin of the Ballet Suedois, and the tennis champion Suzanne Lenglen. Paul Colin ( ) was one of France s greatest poster artists. Made famous in 1925 by his poster for the Revue Nègre, which helped to launch the career of Josephine Baker (who became his mistress), he worked for over forty years in the theatre, creating not only posters but also numerous sets and costumes. Very Art Deco at the outset of his career (Le Tumulte Noir is a masterpiece of the genre), Colin s style quickly became more personal - and harder to categorise; the synthetic accuracy of his portraits and the evocative force of his posters for grand causes so marked him as a master of visual communication that his work retains its relevance today. The lithographs are vividly coloured by Jean Saudé, who is regarded as the leading practitioner of pochoir, a printing technique in which each colour is applied through a separate stencil. His prints have a vibrancy of colour that has rarely been equalled. First edition. Folio (49.5 x 33 cm). one of 500 copies on PaPier vélin. 43 full-page original lithographs on 22 sheets, including 1 double-page colour pochoir by Jean Saudé. Loose as issued in original cream and red stiff card portfolio, lettered in red and black, housed in modern solander cloth box. 25,000 [ref: 90683] 150 Shapero Rare Books

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152 120. gladky, serge; salmon, André. Synthèse du Costume Théâtral. Trente planches en couleurs. Le Théâtre national [Mondial?], Paris, Very rare album containing 33 designs by the Cubist and Art Deco painter Serge Gladky ( s), a Russian based in Paris, one of the precursors to the development of abstract art. Gladky worked as a graphic artist and architect, using ornamental and geometric patterns composed of sleek lines and sharp angles, inspired by nature and animals. He was also heavily involved in popularising pochoir printmaking in Paris in the early 1900s, a reaction against the mass printing techniques that often produced dull colours. The introduction to this album is by André Salmon, a French writer and art critic who, with Guillaume Apollinaire, was one of the early defenders of Cubism. In the text the poet expands on his love of Russian costumes and on his admiration for Gladky. Praising the artist s ability to convey the essence of Russian culture through geometric shapes, he calls the plates inventions merveilles, miraculeuses. 4to (33.5 x 25.5 cm). no. 46 of 170 copies. ff. [8], 33 pochoir plates (including frontispiece), some with gold or silver, on laid paper. Paperback, pochoir illustration and signature by the artist to upper board; small marginal repairs and light stains to covers, text block clean. 9,500 [ref: 93897] 152 Shapero Rare Books

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154 signed by ArtIst 121. MArdrus, Joseph-ChArles; FrAnçoIs-louIs schmied. Ruth et Booz. Traduction littérale des textes sémitiques. F.L. Schmied, Paris, a pristine example of this Beautiful edition, enriched with two additional suites of plates on fine JaPon paper. In the introductory note... Théo Schmied points out the natural happiness of the interconnection between his father s cultural tendencies and art of the book and the world of the Near East as it is filtered by the inspired Mardrus translations... throwing light on the two fundamental aesthetic coordinates we need in order to understand how the details are made subordinate by the elegant decorative unity expressed by the plates, that is, the purity of the Egyptian graphic art and the will of the Italian primitives. The layout shows either a text harmoniously arranged in respect of double and single plates of various size, or a text framed by rules forming a variety of geometrical patterns and decorated by bout de lignes in sienna. The illustrations mainly show subdued and delicate pastel colours. - Nasti 4to (35.5 x 28.5 cm). no. 94 of 155 copies on madagascar PaPer (plus 10 for collaborators, and 7 on japon), signed By the artist beneath the limitation. 12 double-page and 4 single-page colour wood engravings. two further suites of illustrations on JaPon PaPer, one in colour numbered 10, another in black and white numbered 9, signed by the artist. Full brown crushed morocco with gilt ornament to covers and gilt lettering to spine, silk endpapers, front turn-in signed Trinckvel, back turn-in - G. Camuset Doreur. Contemporary card slipcase; upper panel detached. Carteret Illustrés IV, p. 264; Buyssens, no 42; Nasti B15. 15,000 [ref: 95410] 154 Shapero Rare Books

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156 122. MArtIn, ChArles, IllustrAtor. La Mode en mil neuf cent douze. chez Marcelle Demay. Draeger frères, Paris, A beautiful and uncommon catalogue of hats created by the French milliner Marcelle Demay for her 1912 collection. She commissioned noted fashion illustrator Charles Martin to execute the brightly coloured designs. Accompanying these are photographs (by Talbot) of French actress Berthe Cerny modelling the hats. First edition. 4to (31 x 24 cm). 4 tipped-in original colour photographs, 2 pochoir plates with small vignettes along bottom margins; 4 leaves missing (probably those for hiver and été ). Pochoir design to upper board, original pictorial cream wrappers tied with gold cord; slightly worn in parts. 450 [ref: 92852] 156 Shapero Rare Books

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158 123. MArtIn, ChArles [IllustrAtor]; erik satie. Sports & Divertissements. Musique d Erik Satie. Dessins de Ch. Martin. Lucien Vogel, Paris, [1914]. presentation copy signed By lucien vogel. Sports & Divertissements is a striking collaboration combining Satie s masterly avant-garde compositions with Martin s playful designs. Gillmor characterised these piano pieces as Satie s finest creative achievement, a superb marriage of style and idea, a crystallization of virtually everything that had preceded it, the purest distillation of an aesthetic ideal toward which he had been groping for a quarter century. Martin, one of the most distinctive Art Deco illustrators, contributed to Gazette du Bon Ton, Harper s Bazaar and many of the most luxurious publications of the age. A trade issue comprising just one plate was also published, with which this edition is sometimes confused. First edition. Landscape folio (40.5 x 44.5 cm). no. 71 of 225 copies. Title signed by Vogel, one leaf with limitation and index, 20 manuscript scores in facsimile, 20 colour pochoir plates by Martin and Jules Saudé, 42 ff. in total. Original card portfolio covered in paper with all-over pictorial design printed in pink, large label printed in maroon on light brown paper mounted on upper board, original pink silk ties attached to one side of lower board (missing from 5 other sides); corners and hinges rubbed and chipped, spine faded. Gillmor, Musico-Poetic Form, in Canadian Music University Review 8, 30. 9,000 [ref: 93900] 158 Shapero Rare Books

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160 124. poiret, paul. Les Choses vues par Georges Lepape. Maquet, Paris, one of 300 deluxe copies in an extraordinary slip case By a pupil of JeaN de gonets. presented By poiret to the german art director and filmmaker max knaake, the Book was later sent Back to the former for safe keeping during the turbulent war years. fine association copy. très rare. (Carteret) These magnificent plates present designs by Paul Poiret ( ), one of the most influential and notorious designers of the early XX century. His gowns followed the natural line of a slim, uncorseted body, although many women still had to resort to longline corsets to achieve the same effect. Compared to the elaborately detailed and constructed gowns that many fashion designers produced, his designs were audaciously simple and bold, and sometimes quite far-sighted. For example, his robe de minute, a gown made of two rectangles of fabric, was created in 1911, ten years before near-identically constructed chemise dresses became widespread. The models heads are simply wrapped in colourful turbans, in contrast to the elaborately arranged coiffures that many fashionable women favoured. The inscription, by Poiret, reads: à M. Max Knaake Berlinois mais qui mériterait d être Parisien [To Max Knaake, who is from Berlin but deserves to be a Parisian.] the Book is accompanied By a manuscript letter sent By knaake to poiret at the BegiNNiNg of the first world war. Written in almost perfect French on 2 March 1915, the letter is a testament to the deep friendship between the two. In it, Knaake reflects on his collaboration with Poiret in Cologne, where he was involved in the designer s first exhibition in 1914, and the events that led to his current circumstances; Knaake was in France when the war broke out, but managed to escape to Corsica, where he stayed in a convent under official scrutiny and with strict limitations placed on his communications with the external world. In the second part of the letter Knaake politely asks Poiret to keep the book safe until the situation changes, as it is very dear to him, particularly because of the designer s presentation inscription. He expresses deep gratitude for Poiret s help and friendship and finishes: The world is big and art has no Motherland. Provenance: Presentation inscription from Paul Poiret to Max Knaake ( ). 4to (33.5 x 30.5 cm). no. 146 from deluxe run of 300 copies (of total edition of 1000), with three plates on papier des manufactures impériales du Japon. Title, limitation page with monograms of Poiret and Lepape, 11 colour pochoir lithographs (1 folding) highlighted in gold; upper blank loose. Publisher s illustrated card boards, housed in elaborate black and red exotic hardwood box with white shark leather inlay by Antonio Perez-Noriega, pupil of Jean de Gonets; very slightly rubbed, small restoration to joints and back. Loosely inserted 2 pp. manuscript letter from Max Knaake to Poiret dated 2 March Carteret IV, 322; Colas 1837; Monod 9205; Lipperheide Fc 67. 8,500 [ref: 95419] 160 Shapero Rare Books

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162 125. schmied, FrAnçoIs-louIs, IllustrAtor; rudyard KIplIng. Kim. Traduit par Louis Fabulet et Ch. Fountaine-Walker. Gonin et Cie, Lausanne, No. xvii of xx hors commerce copies, containing two extra suites of all the illustrations, including the 15 supplementary plates. Kim was first published in , while this French translation first appeared in The story is set in the period between the second and third Afghan Wars around (1893-8). Unfolding against the backdrop of the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia, the novel popularised the term The Great Game. These charming illustrations were engraved and printed by the painter and printer François-Louis Schmied ( ), who was of Swiss origin. After attracting fame with his engravings for a 1919 edition of The Jungle Book, Schmied turned his attention to producing expensive, luxurious works in limited edition. 4 volumes. 4to (31.5 x 26.5 cm). no. 17 of 160 copies. 276 pp.; 272 pp. with 15 colour plates, including frontispiece, and 15 chapter heading vignette illustrations and initials, all cut in wood and printed in colour by F. L. Schmied with 15 supplementary plates not called for in index and two extra suites of all the illustrations, one in colour, one in monochrome. Original wrappers protected by chemises and slipcase; slipcase slightly rubbed, with one joint starting to split. Buyssens, no 43. 9,500 [ref: 95780] 162 Shapero Rare Books

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164 126. séguy, e[ugène] A[lAIn]. Floréal. Dessins & Coloris Nouveaux. Calavas, Paris, [c. 1914]. a fine portfolio of flamboyant, abstract designs By the master of the pochoir technique. Séguy pioneered the decorative application of floral motifs, and his works are among the most sumptuous of this period. Many of his designs were used for textiles and wallpapers. Folio (54.5 x 37.7 cm). 2 ll., 20 lithographed colour pochoir plates. Loose as issued and housed in portfolio with cloth-backed boards with printed paper label and ties. 4,500 [ref: 96252] 164 Shapero Rare Books

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166 127. séguy, e[ugène] A[lAIn]. Insectes. Du Chartre Et Van Buggenhoudt, Paris, n.d. [1924]. E. A. Séguy ( ) was active as an artist in Paris from 1900 to His mastery of colour and decorative design is most evident in the 11 beautiful pochoir portfolios that he created during his lifetime, exquisite examples of ornamentation and composition. They feature motifs based on the natural world, including flowers, foliage, crystals and animals; this volume is dedicated to insects. Folio (46 x 33 cm). [4] pp., 20 colour pochoir plates. Loose as issued in cloth-backed portfolio with pictorial boards. 12,500 [ref: 92040] 166 Shapero Rare Books

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168 128. séguy, e[ugène] A[lAIn]. Papillons. Paris, [1929]. superb lithographs By the master of the format. In comparison with their variety and brilliance, much Art Deco illustration seems pallid and constrained. And of course their large format makes them particularly attractive for exhibition purposes. (Ray, The Art Deco Book in France) E.A. Séguy ( ), was active as an artist in Paris from 1900 to His mastery of decorative design and colour is evident in the series of 11 beautiful pochoir portfolios he created. Unusual in his capacity to span the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods, Séguy s portfolios remain exquisite examples of ornamentation and composition, featuring motifs based on the natural world, including flowers, foliage, crystals and animals. Folio (44 x 32.5 cm). Lithographed title, title and list of plates, 20 lithographed colour pochoir plates. Publisher s decorated boards with ties. 10,000 [ref: 95608] 168 Shapero Rare Books

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170 129. séguy, e[ugène] A[lAIn]. Prismes, 40 Planches de Dessins et Coloris Nouveaux. Editions d Art Charles Moreau, Paris, fine complete example of séguy s final work. Folio (33 x 25.2 cm). Title, 40 colour pochoir plates on woven paper. Loose as issued in original folio with paper covered boards, lithograph cover, cloth covered spine and ribbon ties. 3,000 [ref: 95852] 170 Shapero Rare Books

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172 130. séguy, e[ugène] A[lAIn]. Samarkande: 20 Compositions en couleurs dans le Style oriental. Massin, Paris, [1914]. This rare portfolio contains 20 illustrated plates with ornamental designs, probably for textiles or wallpapers, with semi-abstract flower motifs, inspired by the Oriental styles created by the artists of Samarkand. Executed with bold colors, the designs in this album present an interesting combination of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles. The illustrations reveal Séguy s unique interest in the study of nature as a source of inspiration for artistic creation. The use of pochoir as a printing technique, popular in France at the turn of the XX century, was ideal for capturing vivid colours. Folio (46 x 34 cm). Half-title, list of contents, title-page, 20 colour pochoir lithograph plates, all numbered; plate 8 browned. All loose as issued in publisher s original marbled paper portfolio with label. 3,000 [ref: 94918] 172 Shapero Rare Books

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174 131. séguy, e[ugène] A[lAIn]. Suggestions pour étoffes et tapis. Massin & Co Editeurs, Paris, a fine copy of one of the great art deco portfolios, regarded as one of séguy s most handsome compendiums. complete with full set of plates. Folio (46 x 33.5 cm). Half-title, title, 20 colour pochoir lithograph plates. Loose as issued in publisher s blue clothbacked portfolio with ties. 5,000 [ref: 96243] 174 Shapero Rare Books

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176 132. severini, gino. Fleurs et Masques. Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, London, one of the most remarkable pochoir Books. a superb depiction of cubist still lives, harlequin musicians and the masks and theatrics of the commedia dell arte. The Fleurs et Masques pochoirs are whimsical (almost resembling playing cards) but at the same time sacred and profane. Throughout, Christian iconography is evident: the mother and child reminiscent of Mary and Jesus; Ichthus fish and pigeons substituted for doves, perhaps, and grapes representative of an evangelical banquet. (Charlotte Hodgson of the Victor Batte-Lay Trust). First edition. Folio (47 x 33 cm). limited to 125 sets. 16 colour pochoir plates by Jean Saudé under the supervision of Severini, some heightened with gold. Original printed boards, original slipcase; spine darkened, slipcase stained. 25,000 [ref: 94533] 176 Shapero Rare Books

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178 signed by the ArtIst 133. tito, ettore; le prince (editor). Les Cinq Sens. Paris, Subtle erotic images reflecting each of the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. The colourful plates are all in the Art Deco style of the time and all signed by the Italian artist Ettore Tito ( ). These risqué illustrations mark a departure from his usual Venetian landscapes. Large 4to (33 x 26 cm). Five colour pochoir prints, all signed By the artist. Housed in original publisher s printed chemise. 2,500 [ref: 88429] 178 Shapero Rare Books

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180 134. Wegener, gerda. Les Délassements d Eros. [Paris, 1917]. rare first edition. These 12 illustrations were first published in 1917 on Whatman paper, and another edition, on Arches paper, was published in However, the publisher struggled to sell the illustrations alone, and so asked the writer Louis Perceau to compose twelve poems to accompany the plates. This combined work, entitled Douze Sonnets Lascifs, was published in Gerda Wegener ( ) was a Danish illustrator and painter best known for her erotic works. After moving to Paris in 1912, she became highly successful both as a painter and as illustrator for Vogue, La Vie Parisienne and Fantasio. Her work comes with a sensational backstory: Gerda s husband Einar, also a successful artist, posed as a model for many of her works dressed in women s clothing, and later underwent the world s first sex-change operation. The actress Alicia Vikander even won an Oscar for her portrait of Gerda in a recent film adaptation of this story, Tom Hooper s The Danish Girl. Oblong folio (26 x 19.5 cm). 12 colour pochoir lithographs on Whatman paper, each with protection leaf. Black morocco with round-shaped red morocco label to upper board, lettered in gilt, housed in blue cloth-backed foldover box lined with blue suede, black morocco label lettered in gilt to upper board. Pia 1912; J-P Dutel s Bibliographie, 1356*. 3,000 [ref: 93759] 180 Shapero Rare Books

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