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Incomplete copy of a popular book on the Regency spa town of Scarborough.18 (of 21) handcoloured aquatint plates etched by Thomas Rowlandson after original sketches by J. Green. (Plates aquatinted by J. Stadler and J. Bluck.)Missing the title page and frontispiece Widow Ducker, pages I-XV, and the plates The Breakfast Room and The Shower Bath. The surviving 18 plates show life at a fashionable resort town, with scenes of people drinking the healing waters at the Spa Wells, swimming in the sea, dancing at the Ball Room, promenading on the Terrace, shopping at the Shoe Shop, borrowing books at the circulating Library, etc. The naked woman bathing in The Warm Bath is said to be the poet Mary Robinson, George IV's mistress, The poems are by Rowlandson's frequent collaborator William Combe, John Buonarotti Papworth and Francis Wrangham.Condition: Half red morocco, spine with five raised bands, gilt decoration, red buckram boards. Binding strong and solid, a few pages and plates with damaged edges, some…
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Poetical Sketches of Scarborough
por William Combe, John Buonarotti Papworth and Francis Wrangham
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[Color Plate] Poetical sketches of Scarborough; illustrated by twenty-one engravings of humorous subjects, coloured from original designs, made upon the spot
por ROWLANDSON, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Text by John Buonarotti Papworth, Francis Wrangham, and William Combe]
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London: Printed for R. Ackermann 101 Strand by J. Diggens Saint Ann's Lane, 1813. Second Edition. Morocco. Near Fine+. Second Edition of this volume of light satirical verse, published the same year as the first, with initials of the authors now subjoined to each incident. Royal 8vo: [8],xv,[1],215,[1]pp, with 21 hand-colored engravings (including frontispiece) by Thomas Rowlandson after drawings by J. Green, showing "comically all the delights and amusements of a fashionable watering-place." (Hardie) "Plate 8, ‘The Warm Bath,' is said to contain the portrait of Mrs. Robinson, George IV's mistress." (Tooley). Elegantly bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full burgundy morocco, covers with triple gilt (French) fillets, spine richly tooled in gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled end papers. Light, scattered foxing and brief rubbing to joints, else an exceptionally pleasing copy. Abbey, Scenery 297-98. Tooley 422. Prideaux, pp. 144-145. Grolier Rowlandson 66 (for first edition).…
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Poetical Sketches of Scarborough
por ROWLANDSON, Thomas; PAPWORTH, John Buonarotti; Wrangham, Francis; Combe, William
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London: Printed for R. Ackermann by J. Diggins, 1813. In the Original Boards, Uncut With Twenty-One Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator]. Poetical Sketches of Scarborough: Illustrated by Twenty-One Engravings of Humourous Subjects, Coloured from original Designs, Made Upon the Spot by J. Green, and Etched by T. Rowlandson. London: Printed for R. Ackermann, by J. Diggens, 1813. Second edition. Octavo (9 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches; 250 x 160 mm). [viii], xv, [1, blank], 215, [1, blank] pp. Twenty-one hand-colored aquatint plates (including frontispiece) by Thomas Rowlandson after James Green. Text watermarked 1813, plates watermarked 1814. Original drab boards, expertly rebacked to style with a new printed paper spine label. Blank corner of pp. 49/50 torn away, a few short clean marginal tears and paper flaws, otherwise a fine and fresh, uncut copy. Armorial bookplate of Beauchamp Colclough Urquhart (d.1861, of Meldrum and Byth, Aberdeen, Scotland) on front paste-down. "The…
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