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A Tour Through Paris, Illustrated with Seventeen Colored Plates, Accompanied with Descriptive Letter-Press

By: N/A

Price: $1,650.00

Publisher: London, William Sams:

Seller ID: 001884

Binding: Quarter Calf

Condition: Very Good

N.d., 1834. Folio-sized, 14 by 10 inches, or 36 by 25 cm. 55 pp. 17 hand-colored plates. The subject matter of the plates is full of delight and surprise, and the composition and coloring is singularly tasteful and sublime. Highlights are surely the dancers on stilts, the blind man on the bridge, the juggler or the charcoal porters. But this is not an early, Parisian version of "London Poor" or the street life of Paris, for we encounter people from all walks of life, and we are taken to places more private, such as the interior of a swimming school! Perhaps the most exception as...
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A Nineteenth Century, and Familiar History of the Lives, Loves, Misfortunes of Abeillard and Heloisa: A Matchless Pair, Who Flourished in the Twelfth Century

By: Rabelais, Robert (pseudonym); etchings by T. Landseer, aquatinted by G. Lewis, from drawings by Thurston

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, J. Bumpus: 1819

Seller ID: 001587

Condition: Very Good

8vo. xvii, 384 pp. With nine of ten hand colored aquatint plates. Since there is no evidence in the form of offsetting of the missing plate, it may never have been bound into this particular copy. Notwithstanding its omission, the scarcity of this work of English caricature and illustration from Regency England make this a desirable copy. Prideaux 348. Small repair to the top of one plate, a tiny chip on another, and and a few text pages with a repair. Heavy offsetting onto text pages of plates. Otherwise internally quite clean. Attractively bound in three quarter red morocco.
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Category: Aquatints

A Tour Through Paris, Illustrated with Seventeen Colored Plates, Accompanied with Descriptive Letter-Press

A Nineteenth Century, and Familiar History of the Lives, Loves, Misfortunes of Abeillard and Heloisa: A Matchless Pair, Who Flourished in the Twelfth Century