Catalogue 132 is here!

As you are hopefully all aware by now; we are exhibiting at the ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair 3rd & 4th November.
You can download a free e-ticket for the Friday here or you can pick up a physical one from our shop.
If you would like one posted to you let us know ASAP!

Please contact us if there is anything you would like us to bring to the fair!

 

Cover image:

A View from Richmond Hill.
Drawn by W. Havell. Engraved by R. Havell.
Published March 1. 1815, for the Proprietors by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Co. No 23 Cockspur Street. London.
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. 275 x 360mm (10½ x 14¼"), large margins. Trimmed to plate. Old ink mss. in title area.
A view from Richmond Hill, looking down to across Petersham Meadows to Ham, St Margarets and Twickenham. Wick House, built for Sir Joshua Reynolds can be seen on the right.
Gascoigne 78.
[Ref: 61669]   £500.00  

We are pleased to present our listing for the ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair: Catalogue 132! It contains just over 360 items and features:

Portraits
Mezzotints
Music including some wonderful mezzotints of castrati
Views UK
Views Overseas
Americana
Sports and Pastimes
Decorative items
Military and Naval
Natural History
Satire
Books
Ephemera
Maps
Historical, Social and Political items.
 
View the whole catalogue here!

Some highlights: 

Dont you remember the 5th of November.
[Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub. by T McLean 26 Haymarket Political & other Caricatures pub. Daily.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 295 x 390mm (11¾ x 15½"). Trimmed within plate. Glued onto backing sheet at edges.
One of many satires on the authors of the Catholic Relief Bill, which was announced on February 5 1829, playing on the Catholicism of Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators. Here Wellington and Peel are "guys", tied back to back, bestride a broken chair on which they are being carried to bonfire or gibbet. A bloated bishop in a surplice, probably Howley, walks behind, holding the back chair-legs and saying 'No Popery'. Eldon (who led opposition to the Bill) carries the front of the chair, facing an angry Irishman in tattered clothes protesting against the ceremony, whose barrister's wig identifies him as O'Connell. . In the foreground, on the extreme left, is John Bull, behind him the head of Cumberland.
BM Satires:15664 (copy).
[Ref: 61524]   £320.00
 

 [Set of eleven views of Richmond Park.]
SDK [monogram of Simon de Koster] 1823-6.
Eleven lithographs on chine collé (complete set as per Gascoigne], with large margins, titled in pencil on backing card. Printed area 235 x 300mm (9¼ x 11¾").
An extremely rare set of views of Richmond Park.
Gascoigne 429-439, unidentified.
[Ref: 61654]   £1,200.00 
 

 [Mary Dutchess of Ancaster.]
[Tho.s Hudson Pinx.t. J.s M.cArdell fecit.]
[1757.]
A superb mezzotint, proof before letters, inscription area uncleaned. 505 x 350mm (19¾ x 13¾"), with good margins. Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A full-length portrait of Mary Bertie, Duchess of Ancaster and Kesteven (1735-1793), standing in a van Dyke dress, golding ostrich feathers. Behind is the Rotunda of Ranelagh Gardens. Mary was the wife of Gen. Peregrine, 3rd Duke of Ancaster; she served as Mistress of the Robes to Queen Charlotte from 1761 until her death.
CS 1; Goodwin: 62. i of iv
[Ref: 61618]   £1,250.00  


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