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The Knave of Hearts - Exquisite Copy in Clamshell Case

The Knave of Hearts - Exquisite Copy in Clamshell Case by [Maxfield Parrish] SAUNDERS, Louise

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Seller: Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Title
The Knave of Hearts - Exquisite Copy in Clamshell Case
Author
[Maxfield Parrish] SAUNDERS, Louise
Seller
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First Edition. Original Cloth. Fine/Clamshell Box Fine. Maxfield Parrish. Folio. Pp. 46. Illustrated ownership page (space for owner's name remains blank). Full-color frontis. with tissue guard. Title page vignette and illustrated page of dramatis personae. With eleven full-page color plates and nine large color illustrations in text. Illustrated endpapers. Publisher's black cloth with color pictorial plate mounted on front board. A superb, fresh copy housed in a striking custom black morocco clamshell box. Often cited as the most attractive book illustrations by Parrish.Referenced by Barbara Bader as "the one American work of consequence" of children's picture books of the 1920s, she suggests Parrish's elaborate illustrations may have been chosen by the publisher "to demonstrate the capability of the new Western [Printing Company] plant in Poughkeepsie," used by Scribner's, which allowed for the elaborate four-color process to be realized (American Picturebooks from Noah's Ark to the Beast Within, p. 126).The notably bright condition is at odds with the condition of most juvenilia; binding now protected with a removable, clear archival sleeve within the clamshell box.
Fables by John Gay; With a Life of the Author and Embellished with Seventy Plates

Fables by John Gay; With a Life of the Author and Embellished with Seventy Plates by Gay, John

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Fables by John Gay; With a Life of the Author and Embellished with Seventy Plates
Author
Gay, John
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Evening Star Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good or better
Description
London: John Stockdale, 1793. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good or better. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [2], iii-xi, [1], 1-225, [1] ; [4], iii-vii, [1], 1-187, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements) pp. Mid-nineteenth century paneled sheep: each board with a calf border inlaid with gold pointillé in the border, three gold borders on each board, gold fleur-de-list to the turn-ins, spines in six compartments with three morocco labels lettered in gold on each spine (two red and one brown), gold decorations on the spines; all edges decoratively stained yellow. Beautiful marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound by W. Worsfold of London. Each volume with an engraved title page, volume one with a frontispice, 51 plates, and volume two with 16 plates. Bentley and Nurmi 371A. Oxford DNB, David Nokes, "Gay, John (1685-1732)". Packer 168. Ray 1. First published in 1727, Gay's Fables achieved popularity thanks to their anthropomorphic characters and general charm. A beautiful edition of Gay's Fables, sumptuously bound. Twelve of the seventy plates done by William Blake, the poet and titan of eighteenth-century illustration. The plates in these volumes bring Gay's fables to life, with rabbits, elephants, boars, dogs, foxes, and other creatures expertly and humorously engraved with expressive countenances. Minor rubbing to the extremities, some of the plates are foxed but the textblock and plates are still largely clean and sharp, one leaf in volume two with a hairline repair.
Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray, comprising a Political and Humorous History of the Latter Part of the Reign of George the Third

Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray, comprising a Political and Humorous History of the Latter Part of the Reign of George the Third by WRIGHT, Thomas and R.H. Evans

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Title
Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray, comprising a Political and Humorous History of the Latter Part of the Reign of George the Third
Author
WRIGHT, Thomas and R.H. Evans
Seller
Donald Heald Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1851. 8vo. (8 3/8 x 5 1/2 inches). 496 pp. Half red morocco with marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands forming six compartments, elaborately gilt, black morocco lettering piece, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers The first edition of the descriptive catalogue accompanying Bohn's collected edition of James Gillray's caricatures, preserving a detailed mid-nineteenth-century reading of Georgian political and social satire. This first edition catalogues 582 of Gillray's prints, arranged in two principal series: political caricatures, plates 1 to 366, followed by satires on persons and manners, plates 367 to 582. Each entry gives the title, date, subject, and historical setting of the print, making the book a useful guide to the dense political allusions, personalities, parliamentary controversies, social habits, and visual jokes that shaped Gillray's work. Gillray's prints form one of the defining visual records of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Britain. His satires treated George III, Queen Charlotte, Pitt, Fox, Sheridan, Napoleon, the French Revolution, parliamentary reform, war, finance, fashion, medicine, theatrical culture, and metropolitan manners with a combination of political immediacy and graphic invention. Wright and Evans' account was written within living memory of many of the people and events satirised, giving the catalogue a particular value as both print reference and Victorian historical commentary.

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