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110760London: Baldwin Cradock and Joy 1822. Single leaf. Oblong large folio on wove paper plate mark 583 x 455 mm on sheet 650 x 490 mm. § Blake’s one plate was first included in Hogarth’s Works 1790 and is here present in the third state of seven. Bentley Blake Books 475 I. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XX. Baldwin unknown books
1772D2485London: Printed by W. Strahan for Mrs. Hogarth 1772. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarter red morocco and marbled paper over boards gilt-stamped lettering on spine 5 raised bands. Spine tips and corners bumped and torn else fine. <br/><br/> Printed by W. Strahan, for Mrs. Hogarth hardcover books
182132425London: J. Sharpe 1821. New edition revised. William Hogarth. Two volumes. 4to pages not numbered. Full crushed green morocco with elaborate gilt borders on both front and rear covers. Spines gilt with raised bands. Inside dentelles. Ex library with bookplates and pockets. Covers rubbed at extremities hinges loose interior quite nice. Includes a short biography of the artist. Each plate has a page or two of commentary. J. Sharpe unknown books
18402132London & New York: E. T. Brain & Co 1840. First edition thus. First edition thus. Large quartos. Two volumes. Sumptuously bound by Morrell in full wavy-grained olive morocco with attractive repeating gilt blossom motif on both covers ornate gilt spines dentelles marbled boards. AEG. A prodigious two volume set in striking matched binding by Morrell. 150 full-page exquisite steel engravings by Hogarth. Very slight wear to corners margins of spine in vol. 1 else fine. <br/><br/> E. T. Brain & Co hardcover books
175927359London: Printed for T. Caslon and Sold by J. Smith and M. Jackson 1759 1759. First edition. ESTC T10583 which records four copies in the UK BL Cambridge Rylands Trinity and five in the US Boston Public Duke Newberry two at Yale. Title-page a little browned; repairs to the edges; very good copy enclosed in a chemise and marbled paper slipcase. 4ro self-wrappers stitching renewed 30 pages untrimmed. A celebratory poem in four cantos on the four election paintings of William Hogarth The prefatory Advertisement is signed by John Smith who states that he is writing on behalf of the "concealed Author" and that while Hogarth's paintings have been explained by others "none ever gave him Hogarth so much satisfaction as the present Performance." At the conclusion a small notice states that "speedily will be published" a poem on Hogarth's "The Roast Beef of Old England" but that apparently was not published. <br/><br/> London: Printed for T. Caslon and Sold by J. Smith, and M. Jackson, 1759 unknown books
174522239London: Wm. Hogarth 1745. Stiff Wraps. Six original engravings. Fine. Complete set of 6 etchings each 45 x 63.5 cm. plate size with image size 36 x 45.5 cm. on heavy laid paper. Plates are in the following states: Plate one fifth state Plate two third state Plate three second state Plate four probable third state Plate five fourth state Plate six third state. PAULSEN 228-233. Painted by Hogarth between 1743 and 1745 satirizes 18th-century society: the disastrous results of an ill-considered marriage for money or social status. The plate by plate progression captures usury infidelity syphilis murder and suicide. Plates are bright clean and fresh. First and last plates are presented: the contracted marriage and the death of the bride from syphilis the brace on the child's leg denoting the transmission of her mother's disease. Plates 2-5 on request. Wm. Hogarth unknown books
7129The complete suite of six prints with the image of each measuring approximately 12" x 15". Engraved titles and publication credit appears below each image within the plate lines. This suite of prints is from the 1821 restrike by Thomas Cooke. The dire consequences of moral laxity a recurrent theme in Hogarth's work are presented in this tragic tale of an innocent country girl's sojourn to the city. In these six plates Hogarth tracks Mary Hackabout's desperate plight from her arrival in the city into the hands of the notorious procuress Mother Needham to her transformation into a kept mistress street moll prisoner and disease-ridden invalid to her inevitable death from syphilis. Each engraving has been professionally cleaned deacidified and matted in acid-free materials ready for framing. These images are clean clear and bright and will provide hours of pleasurable study of Hogarth's observations and satiric commentary of eighteenth century English society at about one-third of the cost of the original impressions of 1735. Paulson 121-26. <br/><br/> unknown books
7126The complete suite of six prints with the image of each measuring 14" x 17" with the title engraved within the plate lines below each image. This suite of prints is from the 1821 restrike by Thomas Cooke. Rich with Hogarth's characteristic allegory and satire this suite of engravings depicts the "marriage a la mode" an arranged marriage for the mutual profit of the parents between the vainglorious son of the bankrupt Lord Squanderfield and the unwilling daughter of a rich merchant. The unhappy union fraught with mutual despairs and adulteries and its tragic end are vividly recounted. Each engraving has been professionally cleaned deacidified and matted in acid-free materials ready for framing. These images are clean clear and bright and will provide hours of pleasurable study of Hogarth's observations and satiric commentary of eighteenth century English society at about one-third of the cost of the original impressions of 1735. Paulson 228-233. <br/><br/> unknown books
107769London: Boydell and Company c.1795. Oblong large folio on wove paper plate mark 583 x 455 mm on sheet 650 x 490 mm. An exceptionally fine dark impression on bright paper with the original wide margins untrimmed. § Third and best state of seven see below of the single plate Blake engraved for Hogarth’s Works first published by Boydell in 1790 this state appearing in the second undated edition c. 1795. It was the last state of the plate before hands other than Blake touched up the plate. A remarkably crisp and brilliant impression of Blake’s richly detailed rendition of Hogarth’s painting showing the famous scene in which Macheath the highwayman stands chained under sentence of death between his two lovers the jailer’s daughter Lucy Lockit and the lawyer’s daughter Polly Peachum. The plate was next used for an 1822 edition by which time several small changes had been made by another engraver. Bentley Blake Books 475 I. Essick William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations XX. Boydell and Company unknown books
179529152London: John & Josiah Boydell 1795. Engraver Benjamin Smith. 1 vols. 39.8 x 30.1 cm 15-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches. Fine. Engraver Benjamin Smith. 1 vols. 39.8 x 30.1 cm 15-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches. Original Engraved Copper Printing Plate After Hogarth's Self-Portrait. With the engraved legend at the bottom of the plate: "William Hogarth / From the Original Picture in the Collection of John & Josiah Boydell / Published June 1 1795 by J. & J. Boydell in Cheapside & at the Shakespeare Gallery Pall Mall". John Boydell 1719-1804 was a prominent printseller who published some of Hogarth's engravings. Hogarth had himself engraved this image in 1749 using it as a frontispiece for bound volumes of his prints and in 1763 he burnished most of it out changing it into a caricature of Rev. C. Churchill. The original oil painting done in 1745 is in the Tate Gallery London.<br/><br/>UNIQUE. Provenance; Bernard Quaritch; Sale Christie's May 22 1984 Lot 90; Thomas Agnew & Sons London. Exhibited National Gallery of Art Washington D.C. 1971 John & Josiah Boydell unknown books
