Lot 178
Engravings - Clarkson Stanfield and others
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 4 September 2013 at 12:00 BST
Description
160 loose engravings, c.1840, taken from works such as Fischer's Illustrations of Constantinople and its environs, Wright's The Rhine, Italy, and Greece and The Gallery of Modern British Artists, some spotting and darkening, predominantly marginal, contained inside two contemporary book covers; Stanfield, Clarkson Coast scenery... London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1836. 8vo, frontispiece, engraved title, 37 plates (of 38), contemporary half calf, bookplate of Edward Chaddock Lownes to paste-down endpaper and signatures of previous owners, spotting, rubbing, fading; Wallace, Alfred Russell Natural selection and tropical nature. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. 8vo, contemporary blue calf gilt, some fading and rubbing; Macpherson, James The poems of Ossian.... Edinburgh: Archibald Constable..., 1805. 2 volumes, 8vo, hand-coloured engraved portrait, contemporary calf, gilt tooled spines, small ownership inscription to endpaper, some spotting, binding a little rubbed; [Idem] Fingal... London: T. Beckett and P.A. Hondt, 1762. 4to, title-page in red and black, contemporary half calf, lacking final advert leaf and pp. v-vi, foxing, joints weak, rubbed [ESTC T132461]; and one other, sold not subject to return (8)