London: S. Alken, 1785. Wraps. 35 x 25 cm.(imprint area). 37 x 27 cm. including border. Black and white engraving, dampstain above lower maiden's head extending to the head of Nap in Town. A fairly early and tame Rowlandson completed at twenty-nine years of age. More about Nap in the Country & Nap in Town
London: James J. Adelphi, 1818. Wraps. 25.5 x 35 cm.(imprint area). 50 x 33 cm. including border. Black and white engraving sharp, bright and clean. The date can be seen above upside down bench at lower right corner, and Rowlandson's name barely visible save for first three letters of his... More about A Mad Dog In A Coffee House
London: James J. Adelphi, 1818. Wraps. 25.5 x 35 cm.(imprint area). 50 x 33 cm. including border. Black and white engraving sharp, bright and clean. The date can be seen above upside down bench at lower right corner, and Rowlandson's name barely visible save for first three letters of his... More about The Last Jig or Adieu To Old England
London: Tho. Tegg, May 10, 1815. Wraps. 25.5 x 35 cm.(imprint area). 50 x 34 cm. including border. Black and white engraving sharp, bright and clean. Mark at head of border appears to be remnant of a stamp. More about The Carter and the Gipsies
London: James J. Adelphi, 1814. Wraps. 25.5 x 35 cm.(imprint area). 50 x 35 cm. including border. Black and white engraving with dampstain of approx. 2 centimeters in imprint area at lower right corner below Rowlandson name. Some minor toning to edges of border extremities. More about Irish Jaunting Carr
London: S.W. Fores, 1802. Stiff Wraps. 26.5 x 33 cm. Color etching, with publisher note at bottom right, "Folios of Caricatures lent out for the Evening." Dido, arms raised, rails, "Ah me, a luckless Maid, thus crossed in hope & expectation so quite lost in both attempts, the one for... More about The Gord-Ian Knot still Untied or the Disapointed Dido still in Despair
London: G. Tregear, 1831. Stiff Wraps. 26.5 x 33 cm. Color etching, with two men standing at entry one noting, "It seems we shan't have much to carry." The seated fellow refuses to pay the Crown taxes, stating "Tell his aforesaid Majesty I shant pay a farthing Old cockalorum, [a little... More about A Tenant At Will
London: C. Motte, ca 1835. Original Wraps. 16.5 x 27 cm. Color engraving during the First Carlist War, 1833-1840 during which the British volunteered to assist Isabella II of Spain against her rival uncle the late king's brother, Carlos de Borbón (or Carlos V). The Carlists supported return to an... More about Don Miguel's First Sight Of The British Squadron
Np: Np, Nd. Wraps. Etched engraving, 17 x 26 cm. on heavy laid paper with Rowlandson signature at lower right corner. Slight stain lower left corner. More about Untitled Restaurant Scene
London: P. Roberts, ca 1790. Original Wraps. 27 x 35 cm., color etching. Jacobin used in Britain as a pejorative for radical, left-wing revolutionary politics, particularly the French revolutionary sans-culottes, Jacobins, satirized by James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and George Cruikshank. Commonly contrasted with the stolid stocky conservative and well-meaning John Bull, dressed like an English country..... More about The Peace Soup Shop
London: W. Humphry, 1785. Original Wraps. 24 x 33.5 cm. Fresh and bright color etching which hich appears to be Charles James Fox, prominent Whig statesman, noted as an anti-slavery campaigner, a supporter of the French Revolution, and a leading parliamentary advocate of religious tolerance and individual liberty. Printed on... More about The Defeat of the HIGH & MIGHTY Bailissimo Corbettino and his famed Celian Forces on the...
London: Walker, 1809. Original Wraps. 22.5 x 32.5 cm. Bright, fresh color engraving with caption above List of Prices reading, "Now gentlemen you had better be quick I have a few bargains to dispose of as the partnership is disolving." British army officers purchased their commissions and were expected to... More about Commission Warehouse
Np: Np, Nd. Original Wraps. 25.5 x 34.5 Color etching spoofing British entering on the side of Queen Isabella who was only a child, so her mother Queen Consort Maria Christina was appointed as Regent. De Lacy Evans commanded the British Legion, which volunteered to assist Isabella II of Spain... More about British Recruits For The Queen Of Spain
Np: Np, Nd. Original Wraps. 25 x 34 cm. Color etching with standing man at right replying, "I should be very happy to obey your orders Colonel but really your glasses are so small that d__m me if there is enough for a Prime." a few tiny nicks, with reinforcement... More about Volunteer Wit Or Not Enough For A Prime
London: S.W. Fores, 1830. Original Wraps. 25 x 36 cm. Color etching, fresh and bright. Probably the brother of the well-known caricaturist William Heath. He was a versatile and imitative artist, working in the loose and coarse Heath manner between the years 1824-1830. He was employed to make political caricatures... More about The Great General frightened by Don_Key
Np: Np, April 12, 1807. Wraps. Sepia engraving, 18 x 12.3 cm. dated as above with Rowlandson name below image noting No 1 James Street, Adelphi. Text reads, "Passing the worst part of a rainy winter in a country so inveterately miry as to imprison you, within your own premises... More about Miseries Of The Country
Paris: Albert Morance, 1960. Braque, Georges. First edition. Hardcover. Text pages unopened. 38.5 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 24 of 50 with a colored aquatint numbered and signed by Braque in pencil. Title page printed in red and black with additional 32 full page plates of which eight are... More about Nouvelles Sculptures Et Plaques Gravees presentees par Christian Zervos
Northampton: Pennyroyal Press, 1979. Moser, Barry. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 27 (6) Pages. 27 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 91 of 350, signed presentation copy by Moser "for Alex." Engravings printed from the original blocks, the book dedicated to Harold Patrick McGrath. Engravings in the text and three full page plates at rear with explanatory text. More about Wood Engravings Notes on the Craft by Barry Moser
London: George G. Harrap, 1936. Rackham, Arthur. leather_bound. 256 pages, 27 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 92 of 460 signed by Arthur Rackham. Twelve full-page plates with lettered tissue guards. Introduction by R. Farquharson Sharp, the translator who made a concerted effort to keep as closely to the original's... More about Peer Gynt A Dramatic Poem By Henrik Ibsen
Chillicothe: Dard Hunter, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 326 pages. Folio, 43 x 30 cm. Limited edition signed by Dard Hunter, copy 8 of 210, 200 of which were for sale; however, as noted in his own bibliography there were only 180 completed. "The last work of the Mountain House Press... More about Papermaking By Hand In America
Utica: William E. Gray Company, Nd. Stiff Wraps. 71 pages. 25 x 17.5 cm. "Etruscan Bronze -- so named because first used in a crude form by the inhabitants of ancient Etruria, has long been known to metallurgists, but only in recent years has it been successfully used in the... More about Illuminating Fixtures of Etruscan Bronze
London & New York & Chicago: John Lane The Bodley Head & Stone & Kimball, Late 19th early 20th century. Hardcover. 26.3 x 22 cm. All are color plates engraved on wood by Edmund Evans, and printed verso or recto with blank backing, all original covers bound-in. Titles include many... More about A Collection Twenty One Picture Books: Large Series and Re-Issue Series
London & Edinburgh: John Miller & W. Blackwood, ca 1810. Wraps. Hand colored etching imprint size: 28.5 x 22, slightly shaved at lower right corner. Gilray takes aim at Napoleon during the Peninsula Wars (1808–14), that part of the Napoleonic Wars fought in the Iberian Peninsula, where the French were... More about "The SPANISH BULL FIGHT___or____the___CORSICAN MATADOR in Danger."
New York: Bonanza, (1960). Hardcover. 558 pages. 20.5 x 14.5 cm. With illustrations and maps. Extensive Index. More about Campaigning With Grant; edited with Introduction and Notes by Wayne E. Temple
London: Henry Hooper, 1840. Cruikshank, George. leather_bound. 60 pages in text. 31.5 x 24 cm. Extra-illustrated copy with 180 engraved plates, 6 are colored. The illustrations are wood-cuts, etchings and lithographs, culled from various sources, many inlaid to size. This work appears here, as often, without printed title page. This... More about An Essay On The Genius Of George Cruikshank; (From The Westmister Review, NO. LXVI.) With...