ABBEY, J. R.
Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, In Aquatint and Lithography, 1770-1860, from the library of J.R. Abbey. A Bibliographical catalogue.
San Francisco, Alan Wofsy Fine Art, 1991.
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Reprint of the 1952 first edition.
"In this Bibliographical Catalogue, the word 'Scenery' is not strictly confined to landscape but includes architecture, and urban and social scenes. I have found it a fascinating subject and a field in which there seem to have been few serious collectors. Many of the illustrations are of real beauty, and the fact that a large number are from books of the greatest rarity and therefore known to few in their original form gives added significance to those which are reproduced in this catalogue. My original idea of recording all books of the period with illustrations printed in aquatint and lithograph printed in two colours has been extended to include examples in which special copies were coloured by hand after printing and, in the case of lithographs, I have included those coloured and even one or two outstanding books containing uncoloured lithograph illustrations" (Preface, pp. xv-xvi).
4to., Frontispiece, title, xx, 399, [5] pp., 34 plates. Original cloth, dust wrapper, fine.
"In this Bibliographical Catalogue, the word 'Scenery' is not strictly confined to landscape but includes architecture, and urban and social scenes. I have found it a fascinating subject and a field in which there seem to have been few serious collectors. Many of the illustrations are of real beauty, and the fact that a large number are from books of the greatest rarity and therefore known to few in their original form gives added significance to those which are reproduced in this catalogue. My original idea of recording all books of the period with illustrations printed in aquatint and lithograph printed in two colours has been extended to include examples in which special copies were coloured by hand after printing and, in the case of lithographs, I have included those coloured and even one or two outstanding books containing uncoloured lithograph illustrations" (Preface, pp. xv-xvi).
4to., Frontispiece, title, xx, 399, [5] pp., 34 plates. Original cloth, dust wrapper, fine.
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Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland,
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