Accession number
PML 145588-92
Creator
Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.
Published
London : Printed for John Murray, No. 32 Fleet-street; H. Hunter, D.D. Bethnal-Green Road; and T. Holloway, No. 11, Bache's-Row, Hoxton, 1792.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Originally written in German; this edition translated from the French edition, La Haye : Jacques van Karnebeek, 1781-1786.
Originally appeared in 41 parts from Jan. 1788-Mar. 1799.
Vol. 1 has English translator's preface, dated 1798; in the part issue this appeared in March 1799.
Vols. 2 and 3 are in two parts, paged continuously.
Pagination: Vol. I: [22], 281 p.; v. II: ix, 444 p.; v. III: ix, 437, [11] p.
Illustrated with 174 engraved plates and numerous engraved textual illustrations, many of them after drawings by Henry Fuseli, who is credited with assisting Henry Hunter in the illustration, editing, and translation of Lavater's work.
Four plates in v. 1 engraved and signed by Wm. Blake: at p. 127, 159, 206, 225. Cf. Bentley, G.E. Blake books, 481.
Plates engraved by Holloway, William Blake, James Neagle, Anker Smith, J. Thornthwaite, Thomas Trotter, John Hall, Henry Bromley and others.
Library's copy imperfect; missing plate "Attention" usually found in v. 3, p. 224 in othjer copies.
Originally appeared in 41 parts from Jan. 1788-Mar. 1799.
Vol. 1 has English translator's preface, dated 1798; in the part issue this appeared in March 1799.
Vols. 2 and 3 are in two parts, paged continuously.
Pagination: Vol. I: [22], 281 p.; v. II: ix, 444 p.; v. III: ix, 437, [11] p.
Illustrated with 174 engraved plates and numerous engraved textual illustrations, many of them after drawings by Henry Fuseli, who is credited with assisting Henry Hunter in the illustration, editing, and translation of Lavater's work.
Four plates in v. 1 engraved and signed by Wm. Blake: at p. 127, 159, 206, 225. Cf. Bentley, G.E. Blake books, 481.
Plates engraved by Holloway, William Blake, James Neagle, Anker Smith, J. Thornthwaite, Thomas Trotter, John Hall, Henry Bromley and others.
Library's copy imperfect; missing plate "Attention" usually found in v. 3, p. 224 in othjer copies.
Description
3 v. in 5 : ill., ports. (engraving) ; 35 cm.
Provenance
Bookplates of Francis Augustus Brooks, M.D., and Michael Ernest Sadler, University College, Oxford; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Blue morocco tooled in gilt and blind.
Classification
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