Accession number
PML 142413.1
Creator
Northcote, James, 1746-1831.
Published
London : Geo. Lawford, Saville Passage, 1828.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"Printed by J. Johnson."
1st ed., later issue, with the t.p. reset and printed in black only and lacking the frontispiece portrait of the author.
Illustrated throughout with 183 wood engraved vignettes and 100 wood engraved initials after Northcote and W. Harvey.
Engravings executed by J. Jackson, A.R. Branston, C. Nesbit, H. White, G.W. Bonner, F.W. Branston, S. Slader, A.J. Mason, T. Mosses, Eliza Thompson, J.O. Smith, Thomas Williams, W.H. Worthington and others.
"The original invention and designs for the prints at the head of each fable are my own, yet they have been most excellently drawn on wood and prepared for the engravers by Mr. William Harvey ... the ornamental letter at the beginning of each fable and the vignette at the end are solely the invention of Mr. Harvey"--p. ii-iii.
Includes index to the engravings, p. [267]-272.
1st ed., later issue, with the t.p. reset and printed in black only and lacking the frontispiece portrait of the author.
Illustrated throughout with 183 wood engraved vignettes and 100 wood engraved initials after Northcote and W. Harvey.
Engravings executed by J. Jackson, A.R. Branston, C. Nesbit, H. White, G.W. Bonner, F.W. Branston, S. Slader, A.J. Mason, T. Mosses, Eliza Thompson, J.O. Smith, Thomas Williams, W.H. Worthington and others.
"The original invention and designs for the prints at the head of each fable are my own, yet they have been most excellently drawn on wood and prepared for the engravers by Mr. William Harvey ... the ornamental letter at the beginning of each fable and the vignette at the end are solely the invention of Mr. Harvey"--p. ii-iii.
Includes index to the engravings, p. [267]-272.
Description
iii, 272 p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 20 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Contemporary red morocco tooled in gilt.
Classification
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