Lot 250
Deuchar, David
A Collection of Etchings after the most Eminent Masters of the Dutch & Flemish Schools
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
Edinburgh: [by the author], 1803. First edition, 3 volumes, folio (36 x 26cm), contemporary straight-grain green morocco with gilt tooling on boards, spines gilt in compartments, 378 etched plates on 308 leaves of wove paper, interleaved with tissue guards, with 3 engraved decorative title-pages, bindings lightly rubbed at extremities, corner tips bumped, some scuffing to the boards of volume 1, with occasional spotting throughout the volumes (3)
Provenance
19th-century armorial bookplate of Philip Hamond (and offer of book to Hamond from Bernard Quaritch dated 1878, attached to front free endpaper of volume 1); 20th-century pictorial bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst (1929-2016)
Footnote
The number of etchings varies from copy to copy. They are based on works by artists such as Rembrandt, Ostade, Bega and Van Vliet, as well as Deuchar's own designs. The images include character studies, fashion plates, and genre scenes of Edinburgh and Scottish rustic life.