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(ROWLANDSON,THOMAS.) [Combe, William.]
The English Dance of
Death.
2 volumes *
The English Dance of Life.
Together, 3 volumes. Illustrated with a
total of 98 hand-colored aquatint plates by Rowlandson. 8vo, uniformly bound in later full
red straight-grained morocco, covers blocked in gilt, spines tooled in gilt in 6 compart-
ments, gilt-lettered in 2, turn-ins and all edges gilt, by Tout; scattered foxing but mostly
confined to margins and plate versos; Charles N. Dietz bookplate to front pastedowns; each
in felt-lined cloth folding case.
London: R. Ackerman, 1815-16; 1817
[1,000/1,500]
FIRST EDITIONS IN BOOK FORM
.
A beautifully bound set. “Indispensable to any
Rowlandson collection, one of the essential pivots of any colour plate library, being one of the
main works of Rowlandson”—(Tooley 410-411); Hardie 172; Abbey Life, 263-264;
Prideaux 332; Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England 35.
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(ROWLANDSON,THOMAS.)
Petticoat Loose: A Fragmentary “Tale of
the Castle.”
Illustrated with 4 engraved hand-colored plates by or after Rowlandson. 4to,
full burgundy straight-grain morocco, covers blocked in decorative gilt within blind
stamped borders, spine gilt in compartments, boards soiled, corners bumped; inner den-
telles; all edges gilt; scattered foxing throughout, offsetting to facing pages from plates, few
text-leaves dog-eared, last illustration with some foxing into image, others with only mar-
ginal spotting; old ownership inscription on first blank.
London: J.J. Stockdale, 1812
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
,
with an autograph manuscript presentation letter announcing the publication
and initial delivery of the book and signed (“The Author”), and addressed to a John
Boardman Esq.; sheet, folded twice, mounted to stub before frontispiece, dated 20 March 1812.
A scarce Rowlandson item. Not in Tooley.
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