Accession number
PML 143950
Creator
Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756-1823.
Published
London : Printed for T. Williams, No. 43, nearly opposite Hatton-Street, Holborn, 1784.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Francis Fitzgerald was a pseudonym of artist and publisher Charles Taylor. Cf. Oxford DNB under Taylor, Charles, (1756-1823).
Vol. 1 of: The artist's repository and drawing magazine, exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches; with a separate engraved and illustrated t.p.
Text illustrated with 60 stipple and "red chalk" style crayon manner engravings printed in sepia ink.
Library's copy has some illustrations traced over in pencil by a former owner.
Vol. 1 of: The artist's repository and drawing magazine, exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches; with a separate engraved and illustrated t.p.
Text illustrated with 60 stipple and "red chalk" style crayon manner engravings printed in sepia ink.
Library's copy has some illustrations traced over in pencil by a former owner.
Description
iv, 214 p., [60] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (engravings) ; 22 cm
Provenance
Gift inscription on front pastedown from Joseph Peirce Sr. to his son Joseph, dated May 1810; inscription in French to T. Bourdon, dated Brecon, May 10, 1814, from "SW"; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Calf backed boards by Peirce of Brecon.
Classification
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