San Francisco: Antoinette and Warren Howell, [ca. 1960]. Folded Deckled Sheet, Laid Heavy Paper. 14" x 11". Color print. [4 pp.] Very Good. Scarce. Warren Richardson Howell was president of the famous San Francisco bookstore John Howell Books. More
London: R. A. Ackermann, 1823. [iv], 279 pp. Hand-colored pictorial title page, frontispiece, and 23 hand-colored plates, hand-colored vignette on final page. (8vo) 23.5x15 cm (9¼ x 6") later green half calf and marbled boards, red leather spine label, edge speckled red. First Edition. Combe's doggerel verses were written to..... More
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London: R. A. Ackermann, 1828. (16mo) 5-3/8 x 3-3/8"; 86 x 135 mm. period full morrocco with gold stamping and the initila "LCB." All edges gilt. Spines rubbed. 3 volumes. Illustrated with 80 hand-colored plates by Thomas Rowlandson, including two pictorial title pages. "Miniature Edition". Charming reduced version of the..... More
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London: R. A. Ackermann, 1823. (16mo) 5-3/8 x 3-3/8"; 86 x 135 mm. period full calf with gold stamping. 3 volumes. Illustrated with 80 hand-colored plates by Thomas Rowlandson, including two pictorial title pages. "Miniature Edition". Charming reduced version of the inimitable works published in octavo in 1812, 1820 and..... More
London: Rudolph Ackermann,1813-1817. Collection of 11 colour aquatints. 12 x 19 to 13.5 x 22.4 cm. 3 smaller ones mounted on board. From the collection of Frederic Gale Ruffner, Jr., the founder of Gale Research, Detroit. Reference: John Roland Abbey Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography, 1770-1860: Architecture, Drawing..... More
London, England: R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1819. 28 x 23 cm (paper mount), 22.5 x 14 cm (print). Good. Darkening on print edges, else very good. Hand-colored etching. [Withdrawn from: "The Tour of Doctor Syntax: In Search of the Picturesque," by William Combe]. More
London: Rudolph Ackermann,1817. Six color aquatints. 15 x 24cm. Including: Searched by the Douaniers on the French Frontiers; Table D’Hote; Consulting the Prophet; The Prophet discovering himself and exposing the deception; The Arrival in Paris; Liberality to infirm beggars on leaving Yrvi.... From Series 2, Volume III; Abbey, Life in..... More
London: Rudolph Ackermann,1818. Four color aquatints. 15 x 24cm. Including: The Sacred Page Displayed; Auction of Relics at Avignon; Before the Tribunal at Avignon; A Prisoner at Avignon. From Series 2, Volume III; Abbey, Life in England, p. 168.... Later published in "Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces..... More
London:1802; reissued 1812. Handcolored etching. 20.5 x 23.5cm. Matted. Small losses in upper corners. ...References: Joseph Grego Rowlandson the Caricaturist: A selection from his works, with anecdotal desciptions.... 2 vols., London, 1880, Vol. II, pp. 235, 403......Met Museum: Object Number: 59.533.845.... .Yale University. Lewis Walpole Library Call Number 812.00.00.97 ........ More
London: The Graphic, July 14, 1888. Colour lithograph. 26.8 x 33.1cm. More
London : Publish’d Septr. 25, 1784, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street, 1784]. Color aquatint. Sheet 33 x 39cm. Mounted on a support sheet. Central text beneath the image missing part of title and publisher's imprint.... Walpole Library, Yale: In the center of a book-lined room the bookseller, with..... More
San Francisco: Warren Howell, circa 1960s. Folio sheet folded to 4pp. 27.7 x 33. cm. Original aquatint circa 1784: Thomas Rowlandson (English, 1756-1827) after Henry Wigstead (English, c. 1745-1800) published by S.W. Fores (English, 1761-1838)....Warren Howell was the figurehead of John Howell Books and a respected figure in the rare..... More
London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1817. Hand-colored etching and aquatint. 14 x 23.5 cm (sheet). Very Good, minor soiling in the margins. Provenance: From the collection of the late Frederick G. Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit. More
London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1812. Hand-colored etching and aquatint. 14 x 23.5 cm (sheet). Very Good, minor soiling in the margins. Provenance: From the collection of the late Frederick G. Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit. More
London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1821. Hand-colored etching and aquatint. 14 x 23.5 cm (sheet). Very Good, minor soiling in the margins, a short tear at bottom sheet edge. Provenance: From the collection of the late Frederick G. Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit. More
London: William Spooner, circa 1800s. Hand-colored lithograph. 32.5 x 25.5 cm (sheet). Very Good, minor soiling in the margins, a tear at left sheet edge, remains of tape residue showing through to recto at top and bottom sheet edge. Provenance: From the collection of the late Frederick G. Ruffner, Jr...... More
[London : R Ackermann's Repository of Arts101 Strand, 1819]. 31 Handcolored aquatints ( frontispiece and 29 numbered plates). 4.5 x 23.2 cm. The title page and plate 29 are torn without loss to the image. Plates lightly foxed or soiled. Plates andtext loose. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 8326452... More
London : Circa 1784. Stipple engraving. 36 x 20.5 cm. Very rare. The more common image of these candidates is entiled "The Rival Candidates." More
London : R Ackermann's Repository of Arts101 Strand, 1812. 30 Handcolored aquatints ( frontispeice and 29 numbered). 4.5 x 23.2 cm. The title page and plate 29 are torn without loss to the image. Plates lightly foxed or soiled. More
London: Pub by T.Tegg 11 Cheapside , 1810. Color etching on rag paper; not watermarked . 25.9 x40cm. Titled in the plate... From the collection of Frederic Gale Ruffner, Jr., the founder of Gale Research, Detroit....A committee of the Rotten Borough Society, established in 1810 (Gibery Vixe, president ; Leatherbreech..... More
London: R. Ackermann, 1813. Hand-colored engraving taken from the Tours of Doctor Syntax. Image measures 19 x 11 cm. More
[London: British Publisher, 20th century]. Color reproductive print. 27 x 39 cm (sheet). Very Good. More
London: R. Ackermann, 1816. Hand-colored aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson. Image measures 14 x 22 cm. More
London: T. Smith, 1785. Two etchings on one sheet of laid paper. 35.5 x 29 cm (sheet). Very Good, sheet trimmed to or just within platemark at top and bottom, a speck of foxing in lower left quadrant. Literature: Grego 174; 328. More
London, England: Ackermann, [1817, 7th edition]. 22 x 13 cm. Good. Staining on Corners from scotch taping, penciled notation bottom right. Penciled notation on reverse. [Aquatint etching.]. More