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1782287287London: Boydell 1782. Second. hardcover. very good. Raphael. Illustrated with 106 engraved plates 45 in outline some foxing throughout. Tall folio recently rebound in 1/2 crimson morocco marbled boards. London: Printed for John Boydell 1782. Second edition. A very good copy in a fine binding.<br/><br/> An elaborate artist's manual first published in 1759. It celebrates Raphael's cartoons purchased by William and Mary and then housed in their own gallery within Hampton Court. Ralph's book begins with 12 plates "of the Study of Geometrical Figures." These are followed by 4 plates of human bodies engraved as academic designs by B. Picart. The bulk of the book shows heads of figures from Raphael's cartoons. The plates each depict two heads which are shown in simple line drawings followed with a finished engraving of the same heads. This second edition contains one hundred and six plates as opposed to 75 plates in the first edition of 1759.<br/><br/> Boydell unknown books
177715684Rome 1777. Copper engraving by Volpato after a drawing by Camporesi later professional hand-colouring. Good condition. Expert strengthening to verso of right outer blank margin some old light creasing to 3 inches of the sheet. This beautiful perspective view of Raphael's Loggia served as the frontispiece to the celebrated text "Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano".<br/> <br/>This arresting print is a general perspective view of Raphael's design for the Loggia at the Vatican with a large profile portrait of Raphael in a medallion over the entrance to the corridor. The plate served as the frontispiece to the first part of the "Logge di Rafaele nel Vaticano" which depicted the decorative work executed by Raphael and his assistants between 1518-1519 in the Vatican. This remarkable print one of the first to be published of the decoration of the Logge on the main storey of the Vatican apartments was probably planned as early as 1760 but was not executed until between 1772 and 1776. The project as a whole was carried out by the painter Gaetano Savorelli the draughtsman Ludovico Teseo the architect Pietro Camporesi and the engravers Giovanni Ottaviani and Giovanni Volpato. The whole series was of importance not just for the size and magnificent colouring of the prints but also because of the influence they had on contemporary taste. The decision was made to "borrow" elements from Raphael's Vatican tapestries and insert them where the original frescoes were in too poor a state to be legible. The finished plates therefore represented an amalgam of design elements presented with a crisp freshness of colour that held enormous appeal and stimulated the taste for the "grotesque" in the neo-classical period.<br/> <br/>Cf. Brunet IV 1110; cf. Berlin Kat. 4068; Lambert Pattern and Design V. & A.: 1983 p. 26; "Raphael Invenit: Stampe da Rafaello" 1985 Volpato 1; Raphael: Reproduktions-graphik aus vier Jahrhunderten Coburg: 1984 p. 104; G. Marini editor Giovanni Volpato 1735-1803 1988 no. 198. unknown books
1875018433Mexico: Imprenta de Ignacio Escalante 1875. Book. Good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. ii 60 pages of text followed by 12 beautifully hand-colored plates of hummingbirds. The text has sustained water damage but those pages have been professionally washed and stabilized. Signatures page gatherings were reformed and resewn. Rebound with a new leather spine with gilt-lettered leather spine label and linen-covered boards. The tinted lithographed frontisportrait and six pages of text are affected by dark areas of discoloration from the water exposure and many pages have minor rippling as some treated pages were discreetly detached for treatment and re-inserted on an added tab. Minor rippling to the hand-colored plates but the images remain bright and are not noticeably affected. There is minor soiling to the plates. All page edges were trimmed by about a half inch to remove damaged paper and does not affect any text or plates; the size is about 10.5 inches height by about 7.5 inches. Imprenta de Ignacio Escalante Hardcover books
20029178New York: Dieu Donné Papermill Inc. 2002. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Slipcase. Tight bright and unmarred. Collaged covers composed of hand-cut paper and string with translucent paper overlaid onto boards; contents variously letterpressed photo-copied and digitally printed with die-cut chapter covers and various inserts; matching slipcase in gold silk. 4to. np. Illus. color and b/w plates. Numbered limited edition this being 15 of 17 Artists Proofs in addition to the 30 of the Standard edition for a total of 47 copies. <br/><br/>An artist book with poems by Raphael Rubinstein. "Each book cover is a one-of-a-kind handmade paper collage created by the artist in the papermaking studio assisted by Susan Gosin and Mina Takahashi. The white cotton text paper and colored abaca chapter covers were handmade at Dieu Donne Papermill. The circles in the chapter covers were die-cut by hand. Carol Joyce bound the edition and slipcase each book in one of four colors of raw Indian silk to match the colored chapter covers. The text is letterpress printed in Avenir types by Ruth Lingen." from the colophon. OCLC finds 5 copies only Getty U.Minnesotta U.Wisconsin U.Washington BNF; we find 2 additional copies at the Met and MoMA. Dieu Donné Papermill, Inc. hardcover books
177627836Rome 1776. Large folio. 29 1/4 x 26 3/4 inches. 12 of 13 hand-coloured engraved plates each printed on two joined sheets by Ottaviani after Gaetano Savorelli and Pietro Camporesi. Interleaved with blanks. Bound without the engraved title soft vertical center crease light abrasions in the images some marginal chips and edge tears to a few plates. A very fine set with particularly fine contemporary hand-colouring of the second part of this great work which concentrates on the quadrants above the windows and doors in the Vatican Logge.<br/> <br/>The work was completed in three parts and depicts the decorative work executed by Raphael and his assistants between 1518-1519 in the Logge on the main storey of the Vatican apartments. The remarkable prints the first to be carried out of the decoration of the Logge were probably planned as early as 1760 but were not executed until 1774 to 1776. The project was carried out by the painter Gaetano Savorelli the draughtsman Ludovico Teseo the architect Pietro Camporesi and the engravers Giovanni Ottaviani and Giovanni Volpato. The plates were remarkable not just for their size and magnificent colouring but also because of the influence they had on contemporary taste. The decision was made to borrow elements from Raphael's Vatican tapestries and insert them where the original frescoes were in too poor a state to be legible. The finished plates therefore represented an amalgam of design elements presented with a crisp freshness of colour that held enormous appeal and did much to stimulate taste in the neo-classical period.<br/> <br/>Raphael Invenit: Stame da Rafaello 1985 Ottaviani 18 21-33; cf. Brunet IV 1110; cf. Berlin Kat. 4068; Raphael: Reproduktions-graphik aus vier Jahrhunderten Coburg 1984 p.104. unknown books
158795438London: John Harrison George Bishop Rafe Newberie Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke 1587. Preferred second edition of the greatest Elizabethan repository of English history which served as an important source for Shakespeare's plays. Folios 3 volumes bound into 2 bound in full calf gilt titles and tooling to the spine raised bands red morocco spine labels gilt ruled woodcut initials and title pages. Separate title pages and pagination for The Description and Historie of England The Description and Historie of Ireland and The Description and Historie of Scotland comprising volume 1. When this expanded second edition of the Chronicles appeared in January 1587 the Privy Council responding to Queen Elizabeth's displeasure at certain passages ordered the Archbishop of Canterbury to recall and censure the work; as a result extensive cancellations 74 pages were made of offending sections in Volumes II and III. The censors removed "all references to English intervention in Scottish politics raised the profile of the Earl of Leicester and distanced England from Elizabeth's one time suitor the Duc d'Alencon. Any accounts of trials and executions were altered to ensure proceedings were unequivocally portrayed as being fair and legal" King's College London. The work of altering the entire edition of the Chronicles was rather haphazardly carried out so that the sections affected vary from copy to copy. In this copy all of the offending sections are cancelled or excised. A nice example scarce and desirable. An immediate success upon publication Holinshed's Chronicles "form a very valuable repertory of historical information. The enormous number of authorities cited attests Holinshed's and his successors' industry. The style is clear although never elevated and the chronicler fully justified his claim 'to have had an especial eye unto the truth of things" DNB. As the foremost British history available at the time the Chronicles did more to shape Elizabethan literature than any English historical work. "The Elizabethan dramatists drew many of their plots from Holinshed's pages" and this second edition is demonstrably the edition employed by Shakespeare as the principal source of his "history" plays. "Both W. G. Boswell-Stone and H. R. D. Anders have shown that it was this second edition which Shakespeare employed as the source sole or part of ten of his plays" Pforzheimer 494 note. "Nearly all of the historical plays as well as Macbeth King Lear and part of Cymbeline are based on Holinshed" DNB. In fact Shakespeare drew not only his plots from Holinshed but occasionally his phrases. The complete story of the rise and fall of Macbeth can be found in the Scottish history Part III pp. 170-76 and the Chronicles' eloquent descriptions intimate at times the very wording of Shakespeare's drama: Macbeth is described as "a valiant gentleman and one that if he had not beene somewhat cruell of nature might have beene thought most worthie the governement of a realme"; the three "weird sisters. women in straunge and wild apparell resembling creatures of elder world" deliver to Macbeth and Banquo the fateful prophecies; and in the final battle Macduffe reveals that "I am even he that thy wizzards have told thee of who was never borne out of my mother but ripped out of her wombe" Whitaker Shakespeare's Use of Learning. John Harrison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke hardcover books
157766536First Edition of Holinshed's Chronicles an Important Shakespeare Source Book HOLINSHED Raphael and others. The First -Laste Volumes of the Chronicles of England Scotlande and Irelande. London: George Bishop and John Hunne 1577. First edition. Two median folio volumes 11 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches; 289 x 197 mm. Titles with woodcut borders McK. 147a numerous woodcut initials and vignettes of various sizes throughout many repeated. Blank b6 lacking in I:2; second leaf of errata lacking from I; several leaves supplied G5-8 I2-3 in I:3; 4S2 in II and probably others from another genuine copy; map of Edinburgh remargined and with other minor repairs; several paper repairs to the titles and text with occasional loss; some printed marginal notes shaved as usual. A made-up copy "as many copies have been made-up by later owners who combined parts having different imprints" Pforzheimer. This copy with the George Bishop title in Vol. I and the remaining titles with the John Hunne imprint. Early nineteenth-century full tan calf over thick boards gilt wide fillet bordering on covers gilt-ruled board edges spines gilt in compartments with six raised bands. Yellow endpapers. All edges gilt. A little rubbed; a few scuffs. Hinges and joints just becoming tender. Overall a very good copy of this important work. Housed in a custom quarter brown morocco clamshell gilt-stamped. While in the employ of London printer/publisher Reyner Wolfe King's Printer in Greek Latin and Hebrew Raphael Holinshed began planning the Chronicles that are known by his name though by several hands. This work formed the first authoritative vernacular and continuous account of the whole of English history. The Historie of Englande was written by Holinshed himself. The Description of Britaine was written by William Harrison. The Historie and Description of Scotlande and the Historie of Irelande were transcriptions or adaptations. The Description of Irelande was written by Richard Stanyhurst and Edmund Campion. Provenance: Borowitz Sotheby Parke Bernet 15 November 1977. STC 13568 most sets seem to have variations in imprint. Grolier Langland to Wither 146. Lowndes 1086. Pforzheimer 494. HBS 66536. $25000 George Bishop [and] John Hunne hardcover books
15872142London: John Harrison George Bishop Rafe Newberie Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke 1587. Second Edition. 18th-century calf rebacked. Very Good. THE SECOND EDITION 1587 OF HOLINSHED'S "CHRONICLES": THE BOOK AND THE EDITION USED BY SHAKESPEARE AS A SOURCE FOR A DOZEN OF HIS PLAYS. "In 1548 the prominent London printer and bookseller Reyner or Reginald Wolfe ambitiously decided to produce a universal history and cosmography. of the world. After Wolfe's death in 1573 his assistant Raphael Holinshed took over the project hired more writers and restrained its scope to the British Isles. The Chronicles was first published in 1577 in a two-volume folio edition illustrated with numerous woodcuts. After Holinshed's death in 1580 Abraham Fleming published the significantly expanded revised second edition of 1587 in a larger folio format this time without illustrations" British Library. By scholarly consensus it is the second 1587 edition offered here that Shakespeare used as the source of many of plays: "Shakespeare used Holinshed as a source for more than a third of his plays including Macbeth King Lear and the English history plays such as Richard III. He used it in a range of ways sometimes following the text of the Chronicles closely even echoing its words and phrases; sometimes using it as an inspiration for plot details; and at other times deviating from its account altogether either preferring other sources or his own imagination. Comparing Shakespeare's plays to Holinshed and other sources can provide rich insight into his creative intentions and processes as well as giving us an idea of some of the context in which Shakespeare's contemporary audiences would have understood his plays" British Library. The major use that Shakespeare made of Holinshed was certainly in the British history plays: "Queen Elizabeth herself said that Shakespeare's history plays existed 'aswell for the recreacion of our loving subjects as for our solace and pleasure.' Both sovereign and subject certainly found much comfort and recreation in Shakespeare's histories because they stage a thematic movement that shapes Holinshed's Chronicles 1377-1485; from the death of a frequently chaotic violently chivalric medieval world to the birth of the 'Peaceable and Prosperous' early modern commonwealth of their day. "An astute reader Shakespeare transformed into the medium of drama four major political themes and messages taught by Holinshed and his successors who enlarged the 1587 text: the ideal and decorum of English kingship the role of France in English public discourse the idea of Englishness and the idea of the commonwealth." Igor Dhjordjevic "Shakespeare and Medieval History" Oxford Handbook. On the bibliography of the 1587 edition: In February 1587 the Archbishop of Canterbury was ordered by the Privy Council to recall and censor "reform" the book on the grounds that the new material in the second edition included "sundry things which we wish had bene better considered; forasmuch as the same booke doth also conteyne reporte of matters of later yeeres i.e. the reign of Elizabeth I that concern the State and that "ther is inserted such mention of matter touching the King of Scottes as may give him cause of offence." As a result some 16 pages in volume II and almost 150 pages in volume III were excised "castrated" and replaced by a much smaller number of pages only seven leaves in volume III to paper over the gaps. The censors however neglected the index which continued to contain references to the excised pages. In the early eighteenth century three separate publishers issued sets of replacement leaves that collectors could use to complete their castrated sets of the 1587 edition. Cyndia Susan Clegg "Censorship" in Oxford Handbook; Keith L. Maslen "Three Eighteenth Century Reprints of the Castrated Sheets in Holinshed's Chronicles" The Library 5th Series. There is wide variation among the surviving sets of the second edition partly because of the presence of three different eighteenth century sets of replacement leaves and partly because the original sixteenth century castrations and replacements were apparently not applied consistently to all of the then-existing sets. Some sets now have one or more of the castrated pages; some have the sixteenth century replacement pages; some have the eighteenth century replacement pages; and some are mixed-and-matched. Thus "no two copies of Holinshed's Chronicles. are likely to have identical text" Randall McLeod "Cronicling Holinshed's Chronicles: Textual Commentary" in "The Peaceable and Prosperous Regiment of Blessed Queene Elisabeth: A Facsimile from Holinshed's Chronicles" 2005. In the copy offered here the replacement leaves in volume III appear to conform to the set issued in 1722/1723 by William Mears Fletcher Gyles and James Woodman "The castrations of the last edition of Holinshed's Chronicle: both in the Scotch and English parts containing forty four sheets; printed with the old types and ligatures and compared literatim by the original". However volume II of the offered copy does not include a complete set of the 18th-centurty replacement leaves and the replacement pages that are present do not conform to the Mears/Gyles/Woodman set. Thus this volume most likely contains the publisher's original sixteenth-century replacement leaves. Castrated pages 421-24 are here replaced by a single leaf with the recto numbered 421 and the verso numbered 424; 432-38 are replaced by a single page 433 and 443-50 are replaced by two leaves numbered 443/444 and 445/450. Provenance: With stamps on titles and privilege leaves from "Bibliotheca Regia" an unidentified Royal library including the de-accession stamps "Double Vendu". London: John Harrison George Bishop Rafe Newberie Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke 1587. Folio 234x363mm eighteenth-century calf rebacked. Some wear to boards. Text extraordinarily clean with wide margins. A beautiful and important set. John Harrison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke unknown books
169315680Rome: Domenico de' Rossi 1693. Large folio. 10 hand-coloured engraved plates by Dorigny on laid paper each 15 7/8 x 26 inches approximately titles and imprints printed in gold black ink-ruled borders each plate cut to the edge of the image mounted on large sheets of contemporary thick laid paper each 29 3/8 x 40 3/8 inches approximately. Unbound<br/> <br/>A very fine suite of richly hand-coloured plates offering a stunning visual record of one of the best of the decorative interior schemes carried out by Raphael in Rome.<br/> <br/>This wonderful series records Raphael's 'Cupid and Psyche' series of frescoes carried out by him between 1516 and 1518 in the Loggia of Psyche in the villa Farnesina in Rome. The series also comes with a title and an eleventh plate of the ceiling fresco in the adjoining Sala di Galatea executed in 1512: neither the plate nor the title are present here. Originally published by the Rossis the engravings are the work of Nicolas Dorigny 1658-1746 who lived and worked in Rome between about 1690 and 1719. The painter classicist and art historian Giovanni Pietro Bellori 1613-1696 provided the text at the foot of the plates appropriate excerpts from Apuleuis's Golden Ass.<br/> <br/>"Raphael Invenit: Stampe da Rafaello" 1985 Dorigny 37-46; cf. Brunet IV 1111; cf. Berlin Kat 4066. Domenico de' Rossi unknown books
17723753Rome 1772. Large folio. 29 3/4 x 17 1/4 inches. 2pp. letterpress text in French "Aux Amateurs des Beaux Arts" with uncoloured engraved head-piece and initial and colophon at foot of second page. One small format folding plate "Ordine tenuto nel disporre le stampe de pilastri delle logge Rafaele." 7 x 19 1/32 inches 34 hand-coloured engraved leaves comprising: 1 general perspective view with title and portrait of Raphael by Volpato after Pietro Camporesi strip attached at lower edge to bring up to size; 2 folding plates of doorways by Ottoviani after Gaetano Savorelli and Camporesi each on two sheets joined 36 x 17 1/4 inches overall; 14 views of pilasters on 28 plates by Ottoviani after Savorelli and Camporesi the first plate of each view cut to edge of image with strip attached to lower edge to bring up to size; general plan "Spaccato per il longe del seconde piano del loggia" on three plates by Ottoviani after Savorelli and Camporesi designed to form a single panoramic image . Lower blank margin of text leaf torn and repaired small tears to folds of the doorway plates. Bound with: RAPHAEL. - Nicolas DORIGNY 1648-1746 engraver. Psyches et Amoris nuptiae fabula a Raphaele Sanctio Urbinate Romae in Farnesianis hortis Transtyberim ad veterum aemulationem ac laudem colorum luminibus expressa a. Dorigny. delineata et incisa et a Ioanne Petro Belloriio notis illustrata. Rome: Domenico de' Rossi 1693 or later. Large folio 29 3/4 x 17 1/4 inches. 10 hand-coloured engraved plates by Dorigny titles and imprints printed in gold. 2 works in one volume. Late 18th-century Roman red morocco gilt contemporary with the first work covers with elaborate border of dog-tooth roll double-fillet and repeated use of a three-flower spray a heart and a rococo drawer-handle tool the same tool massed to form a lozenge shape at the corners and forming a triangular motif mid-way up the long sides with stars birds and small and large flower-spray tools all enclosing a large central lozenge formed from an outline of a simpler variant drawer-handle tool and large flower sprays enclosing a center of massed scrolling foliage with pomegranates and acorns the spine in seventeen sections with raised bands lettered in the second the others with repeat decoration of a central flower spray with smaller sprays at the corners patterned paper pastedowns. Ties lacking light worming to head and foot of spine with resultant small tears and loss modern cloth solander box morocco lettering-piece on the spine. A very fine collection with richly hand-coloured plates of the best of the decorative interior work carried out by Raphael in Rome. The album is hand-coloured and bound in Rome in the fourth quarter of the 18th-century. It is clearly as it was delivered to its original owner perhaps a Grand-Tourist perhaps a local dilettanti and perfectly echoes his wishes: the first part of Ottoviani's excellent work on Raffaello's Logge frescoes that is the part on the pilasters and including Maitre Dorigny's engravings but only the Loggia of Psyche set all hand-coloured and uniform in size. The first work part one of three concentrates on the decorative pilasters executed by Raphael and his assistants as part of a larger scheme of redecoration between 1518-1519 in the Logge on the main storey of the Vatican apartments. The remarkable prints the first to be carried out of the decoration of the Logge were probably planned as early as 1760 but were not executed until 1774 to 1776. The project was carried out by the painter Gaetano Savorelli the draughtsman Ludovico Teseo the architect Pietro Camporesi and the engravers Giovanni Ottaviani and Giovanni Volpato. The plates were remarkable not just for their size and magnificent colouring but also because of the influence they had on contemporary taste. The decision was made to borrow elements from Raphael's Vatican tapestries and insert them where the original frescoes were in too poor a state to be legible. The finished plates therefore represented an amalgam of design elements presented with a crisp freshness of colour that held enormous appeal and did much to stimulate the taste for the grotesque in the neo-classical period. The second work is of Raphael's Cupid and Psyche series of frescoes carried out by Raphael between 1516 and 1518 in the Loggia of Psyche in the villa Farnesina in Rome. The series also comes with a title and an eleventh plate of the ceiling fresco in the adjoining Sala di Galatea executed in 1512: neither the plate nor the title were ever bound in the present collection. Originally published by the Rossis it is the work of Nicolas Dorigny 1658-1746 who lived and worked in Rome between about 1690 and 1719. The painter classicist and art historian Giovanni Pietro Bellori 1613-1696 provided the text at the foot of the plates appropriate excerpts from Apuleuis's Golden Ass. "Raphael Invenit: Stampe da Rafaello" 1985 Volpato 1; Ottaviano 2-19 and Dorigny 37-46. Brunet IV cf.1110 & 1111; Berlin "Kat". Cf.4068 & 4066; "Raphael: Reproduktions-graphik aus vier Jahrhunderten Coburg 1984 p.104 & no.245; "Giovanni Volpato 1735-1803" Bassano del Grappa 1988 173. unknown books