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The Story of the London Parks 2 vols. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED w/ORIGINAL ENGRAVINGS AND AQUATINTS; 16 IN COLOR
186052737London: Chatto and Windus 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 2 208 209-490 1pp. 354 plates. Bound in Order of the Garter three-quarter brown leather over marbled boards gilt emblems and ruling on covers gilt lettering including date 1860 and tooling on spines; raised bands. The emblem gilt impressed with "Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense shamed be whoever thinks ill of it" the motto of the Order of the Garter. Topedges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Frontispieces. Vignette on title page. Headpiece illustrations. Red ribbon markers. Unique copy extra-illustrated with three hundred and six additional bound in engravings some of them hand-colored.<br /> <br /> OCLC lists seven editions published between 1870 and 1900 and one 2009 reprint by Athena Press Tokyo. When indicated the pages are listed at 490 without reference to a two volume edition and the number of illustrations on plates in these publications is listed with forty-eight or less.<br /> <br /> Our edition a publication with in-text illustrations plus a total of 354 plates 306 more than in any listed edition is a unique edition with added engravings and aquatints showing portraits of the British ruling class palaces and prominent buildings as well as scenic renderings of the Hyde Park and general landscapes. The plates some of them cuttings from publications compliment and illustrate the text of the facing pages. Sixteen of the plates are in color including a two-fold symbolic battle scene by Rolandson. Of the 338 b/w illustrations two are folding plates. One of the Orchestra Organ in Westminster by W. & J. Walker and one of the Temple of Concord by J. Pass. <br /> <br /> The volumes contain engravings some printed to tissue paper lithographs drawings and woodcuts several of them fit into cutout framing or pasted to art paper. Many of the portraits with facsimile signatures several in actual handwriting. Several of the artist listed in the comprised list of artworks below are represented with several works and a seizable number with scarce or without any identifiers but the reference in the descriptive text on facing pages. Some of the artwork with damp-staining or foxing and occasional offseting to facing pages. Several oversize plates folded to fit. Minor wear to binding. Vol. I: Albertus Dürer following page 10 Francois-Seraphin Delpech facing 11 Arthur Lord Capel 17 with cutout William Richardson British artist Holl Thomas Lord Fairfax/ with biographical printed cutout 26. van Dyk 29 Ozias Humphrey 47 John Thompson 56 P. Lely Dutch painter who bacame a dominant portrait painter to the court several Anthony van Dyck also court painter in England/ Princess of Orange 69 Thomas Simpson Kensignton Palace 70 UNIDENTIFIED ENGRAVING OF Pasquale Paoli signed by the Corsican statesman presumably during his exile in Britain 1769 134 James Roberts landscape engraving 156 lithograph drawing of Mary Robinson as Perdita in The Winter's Tale 1799 attributed to William Ridley 170 steel engraving of Lady Jersey by Leopold Beyer 183 Engraving of Prime Minister William Wyndham Grenville by T. A. Dean Grenville facsimile signature 185 Hyde Park Corner 1822 in color by George Cruikshank 208<br /> <br /> Vol. II: Engraving of the Chinese Bridge by William Wallis frontispiece a lithograph of Charles Ferdinand D'Artois Duc de Berry by Francoise-Séraphin Delpech with signature 212 the Persian Ambassador in color unidentified 233 Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld by Holl 251 The Grotto at Oatlands engraving by Angus 256 The Fair Circassian by James Thompson with additonal color rendering 258 an color rendering of the Basin in the Green Park St. James 287 The Sommerset House drawn and engraved for Dougdale's "England & Wales" 302 an unidentified print of a drawing of Lady Morgan the author of "O'Donnel" 314 a color reproduction of The Royal Palace of St. James Next The Park a so-called "vue d'Optique" or "perspective view" popular at the time published by Bowles & Carver 320 engraving of Miss Price by Sir Peter Lely 351 two-fold engraving of Westminster Abbey by W. & J. Walker 467 stipple engraving by J. Thomson 468 hand-colored collection of headdresses Eastgate 469. Chatto and Windus hardcover
