Accession number
PML 128112
Creator
Cumberland, George, 1754-1848.
Published
London : Printed by W. Wilson, St. Peter's Hill, Doctors'-Commons; and sold by Messrs. Robinson, Paternoster-Row; and T. Egerton, Whitehall, MDCCXCVI [1796]
Credit line
Gift of Charles Ryskamp in memory of Michael S. Currier, 1998.
Notes
Spine title: Cumberland Thoughts on outline
"To the reader" (p. [i]-iii) is signed and dated: "G. Cumberland. Bishopsgate, Windsor Great Park, June, 1796."
With a preliminary leaf containing a quotation from Sir William Jones's Asiatic Researshes [sic], and a final leaf of advertisements, "Lately published by the same author."
Includes 8 plates engraved by William Blake from designs by Cumberland, 15 designed and engraved by Cumberland, and 1 unsigned engraving which serves as a section title reading: Inventions by G. Cumberland.
Uncorrected motto on t.p.: "Ainsi io son pittore." Cf. Bentley, p. 543.
Blake's plates are praised on p. 47-48.
"A numerical catalogue of ... subjects from engraved stones ... selected ... from Mr. Tassies' cabinet ..." p. 49-52.
"To the reader" (p. [i]-iii) is signed and dated: "G. Cumberland. Bishopsgate, Windsor Great Park, June, 1796."
With a preliminary leaf containing a quotation from Sir William Jones's Asiatic Researshes [sic], and a final leaf of advertisements, "Lately published by the same author."
Includes 8 plates engraved by William Blake from designs by Cumberland, 15 designed and engraved by Cumberland, and 1 unsigned engraving which serves as a section title reading: Inventions by G. Cumberland.
Uncorrected motto on t.p.: "Ainsi io son pittore." Cf. Bentley, p. 543.
Blake's plates are praised on p. 47-48.
"A numerical catalogue of ... subjects from engraved stones ... selected ... from Mr. Tassies' cabinet ..." p. 49-52.
Description
[4], iii, [1], 52, [1] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm
Provenance
From the Charles Ryskamp collection.
Binding
Marbled boards.
Classification
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