Vicar of Wakefield by (RACKHAM, Arthur) GOLDSMITH, Oliver

W. Bromley, Hammersmith, London.,1799FIRST EDITION. Folio.(17.4 x 11.2 inches). 14pp, 9 pages of plates. An early issue of this work, with paper watermarked 1796. Stipple engraved, hand coloured title page and seven full page, hand coloured plates, plus full page engraved speech from As You Like it, titled The ages of Man, featuring one of Shakespeare's most enduring and often quoted lines - All the world's a stage, and all the men and women meerly players- each printed by R. Fenner. The plates are engraved by William Bromley after Stothards drawings. . Fine recent binding of quarter red straight grained morocco, the spine, ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Red morocco tips to corners of boards. Some offsetting from the Illustrations onto the text pages and some staining to the margins only on 5 pages but overall a very good attractive copy of this scarce and beautiful work.

Nattali and Bond. London. No Date.,Circa 1850. THREE VOLUMES. Tall 8vo (10.2 x 6.6 inches). Text and plates taken from the Ninth edition. Complete set of this famous trilogy, with 80 fine hand-coloured, full page, aquatint plates, the colouring still strong and bright, by Thomas Rowlandson. Some minor spots of foxing to a few leaves in each volume but generally clean and bright copies in the scarce original publisher's brown cloth bindings, with gilt lettering and decoration on spines. Decorative blind stamped panels on boards. Original yellow coated endpapers. Previous owners bookplates to front paste downe endpapers. Some rubbing to top and tail of spines and fore-edges, and a couple of the hinges with neatly repaired splits (about 1.5 inches) but generally these are very good examples. Slight uniform fading to spines but overall a very attractive set of this classic work with Rowlandson's humourous plates. Uncommon in the publishers original decorative cloth bindings.:

1849 British China Opium War Japanese China Sea Battle Siege Cannon Illustrated
A rare, 19th century Japanese woodblock print of "Kaigai Shinwa Shūi". Kaigai Shinwa Shūi is a semi historical text of the Japnaese view of the Opium War between China and Britain based on actual events with embellishments to appeal to a broad audience in Japan. The embellishments also depict the fear of foreigners from japan's isolation.
This rare text is written in a column format with furigana for easier reading and includes illustrations of Chinese warriors, burning of British ships and opium, map, cannons, weapons, ships, and much more!

Item number: #18547
Price: $950
Mineta Fuko
New Chats on Overseas, continued (kaigai shinwa shūi ni) 海外新話拾遺二（かいがいしんわしゅういに）
[Edo: Kaei 2, 1849]

Details:

· Collation: 5 volumes
o Illustrated throughout
o
single plate and text wanting in volume 5
· References:
o Iwanami, Kokusho So Mokuroku 16773
o Waseda University… Read More

1870 Vanity Fair ART Henry Bulwer Frederick III of Prussia Illustrated COLOR
A rare printing of the first volume of the Vanity Fair Album. Vanity Fair is best known for full-page, color lithographs of world celebrities and dignitaries including artists, athletes, royalty, , scientists, authors, and scholars. More than 2000 of these images appeared, and they are considered the chief cultural legacy of the magazine, forming a pictorial record of the period. According to author and editor Jehu Junior,
"The Vanity Fair Portraits are and remain the only work of their kind ever attempted; and as such they must always hold a special and distinct place as a permanent record of men of eminence in the nineteenth century."
This 1870 edition includes 24 full page color plates of famous figures including

·
Marquis of Westminster
·
The Duke of Sutherland
·
Lord Henry Gordon-Lennox
·
Robert Montagu
·
Prince of Prussia, Frederick III
·
Henry Bulwer
Item number:… Read More

Frederick Warne & Co. London. 1908. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (10.8 x 8.5 inches). Fully illustrated with 24 wonderful full colour plates (XYZ appear together on one page) within a border and above a humourous verse, plus 2 double page decorative line drawings, printed in different shades of brown on parchment paper, for the endpapers. Colour pages are printed on one side only. A bright and clean copy throughout. Publishers original grey/dark green paper covered, bevelled edged, boards with lettering and illustration to the front board by Dulac, printed in Gold, white, orange and light green. Rear board with circular design printed in white, gold and green. Plain yellow cloth spine. Some minor marking to the spine but overall a lovely clean, tight, near fine copy. Among the artists best and most imaginative works, this title is also one of the scarcest books that he illustrated. The humour in his verse is far surpassed by the comical imagination of the plates and shows the lighter side of Dulac's nature.… Read More

W. Bromley, Hammersmith, London.,1799FIRST EDITION. Folio.(17.4 x 11.2 inches). 14pp, 9 pages of plates. An early issue of this work, with paper watermarked 1796. Stipple engraved, hand coloured title page and seven full page, hand coloured plates, plus full page engraved speech from As You Like it, titled The ages of Man, featuring one of Shakespeare's most enduring and often quoted lines - All the world's a stage, and all the men and women meerly players- each printed by R. Fenner. The plates are engraved by William Bromley after Stothards drawings. . Fine recent binding of quarter red straight grained morocco, the spine, ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Red morocco tips to corners of boards. Some offsetting from the Illustrations onto the text pages and some staining to the margins only on 5 pages but overall a very good attractive copy of this scarce and beautiful work.

Nattali and Bond. London. No Date.,Circa 1850. THREE VOLUMES. Tall 8vo (10.2 x 6.6 inches). Text and plates taken from the Ninth edition. Complete set of this famous trilogy, with 80 fine hand-coloured, full page, aquatint plates, the colouring still strong and bright, by Thomas Rowlandson. Some minor spots of foxing to a few leaves in each volume but generally clean and bright copies in the scarce original publisher's brown cloth bindings, with gilt lettering and decoration on spines. Decorative blind stamped panels on boards. Original yellow coated endpapers. Previous owners bookplates to front paste downe endpapers. Some rubbing to top and tail of spines and fore-edges, and a couple of the hinges with neatly repaired splits (about 1.5 inches) but generally these are very good examples. Slight uniform fading to spines but overall a very attractive set of this classic work with Rowlandson's humourous plates. Uncommon in the publishers original decorative cloth bindings.:

1849 British China Opium War Japanese China Sea Battle Siege Cannon Illustrated
A rare, 19th century Japanese woodblock print of "Kaigai Shinwa Shūi". Kaigai Shinwa Shūi is a semi historical text of the Japnaese view of the Opium War between China and Britain based on actual events with embellishments to appeal to a broad audience in Japan. The embellishments also depict the fear of foreigners from japan's isolation.
This rare text is written in a column format with furigana for easier reading and includes illustrations of Chinese warriors, burning of British ships and opium, map, cannons, weapons, ships, and much more!

Item number: #18547
Price: $950
Mineta Fuko
New Chats on Overseas, continued (kaigai shinwa shūi ni) 海外新話拾遺二（かいがいしんわしゅういに）
[Edo: Kaei 2, 1849]

Details:

· Collation: 5 volumes
o Illustrated throughout
o
single plate and text wanting in volume 5
· References:
o Iwanami, Kokusho So Mokuroku 16773
o Waseda University… Read More

1870 Vanity Fair ART Henry Bulwer Frederick III of Prussia Illustrated COLOR
A rare printing of the first volume of the Vanity Fair Album. Vanity Fair is best known for full-page, color lithographs of world celebrities and dignitaries including artists, athletes, royalty, , scientists, authors, and scholars. More than 2000 of these images appeared, and they are considered the chief cultural legacy of the magazine, forming a pictorial record of the period. According to author and editor Jehu Junior,
"The Vanity Fair Portraits are and remain the only work of their kind ever attempted; and as such they must always hold a special and distinct place as a permanent record of men of eminence in the nineteenth century."
This 1870 edition includes 24 full page color plates of famous figures including

·
Marquis of Westminster
·
The Duke of Sutherland
·
Lord Henry Gordon-Lennox
·
Robert Montagu
·
Prince of Prussia, Frederick III
·
Henry Bulwer
Item number:… Read More

Frederick Warne & Co. London. 1908. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (10.8 x 8.5 inches). Fully illustrated with 24 wonderful full colour plates (XYZ appear together on one page) within a border and above a humourous verse, plus 2 double page decorative line drawings, printed in different shades of brown on parchment paper, for the endpapers. Colour pages are printed on one side only. A bright and clean copy throughout. Publishers original grey/dark green paper covered, bevelled edged, boards with lettering and illustration to the front board by Dulac, printed in Gold, white, orange and light green. Rear board with circular design printed in white, gold and green. Plain yellow cloth spine. Some minor marking to the spine but overall a lovely clean, tight, near fine copy. Among the artists best and most imaginative works, this title is also one of the scarcest books that he illustrated. The humour in his verse is far surpassed by the comical imagination of the plates and shows the lighter side of Dulac's nature.… Read More