Art
10 volumes, comprising
£300
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
Opie, John Lectures on Painting. 1808. First edition, 4to, engraved plates, library stamps of the Working Men's College, contemporary red half morocco, spine gilt, rubbed; Fuseli, Henry Lectures on Painting, delivered at the Royal Academy. 1820. 4to, engraved frontispiece, contemporary red half morocco, spine gilt, slightly rubbed, library stamps of the Working Men's College; Du Fresnoy, Charles A. The Art of Painting... with annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds. York, 1783. First edition of William Mason's translation, 4to, half-title, contemporary calf, spine gilt, slightly rubbed, joints splitting; La Fontaine, J. de Fables, illustrations by Grandville. Paris, 1847. Large 8vo, illustrations, additional title, salmon red morocco gilt, occasional light marginal dampstains, rubbed, g.e.; La Fontaine, J. de. The Fables, with illustrations by Gustave Doré. Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [n.d.], 4to, plates and illustrations, contemporary red half morocco, g.e.; Wright, Thomas A History of Caricature & Grotesque in Literature and Art. [c.1864], 8vo, illustrations, later quarter brown morocco; Brand, John Observations on Popular Antiquities. 1810. 8vo, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed; Reynolds, Sir Joshua The Literary Works. 1899. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, gilt arms on sides, g.e.; Clerk, Thomas The Works of William Hogarth (Including the 'Analysis of Beauty'), Volume II. 1810. 8vo, bookplate, dust-soiling to frontispiece and throughout, contemporary half calf, edges and corners rubbed (10)