Accession number
PML 142429
Creator
Northcote, James, 1746-1831.
Published
London : John Murray ..., 1833.
Notes
1st ed.
Illustrated with 183 wood engraved vignettes and 100 initials engraved by John Thompson, Eliza Thompson, Ebenezer Landells, Thomas Williams, Miss Williams, John Jackson, Charlton Nesbit, Albert Thompson, Charles Thurston Thompson, Branston and Wright, John Martin, Samuel M. Slader, Charles Gorway, Henry White, George Wilmot Bonner, and John Orrin Smith; after designs by James Northcote and William Harvey. All the ornamental letters engraved by Ebenezer Landells.
With a portrait of Northcote on the t.p.
Part of the fables in verse.
"Chiswick Press: printed by C. Whittingham"--Colophon.
"Sketch of the life of James Northcote": p. [xiii]-liv is by the editor, E.S. Rogers.
Includes index to the engravings, p. [243]-248.
Manuscripts and original drawings for 97 of the 101 fables published in this series are in the Morgan Library (MA 2445, MA 2446). Also in the Library are Northcote's manuscripts for three poetic fables (unpublished?): The church and the storks, The parliament of beasts, and The wolf and the lamb previously owned by G.N. Ray (MA 4500).
Illustrated with 183 wood engraved vignettes and 100 initials engraved by John Thompson, Eliza Thompson, Ebenezer Landells, Thomas Williams, Miss Williams, John Jackson, Charlton Nesbit, Albert Thompson, Charles Thurston Thompson, Branston and Wright, John Martin, Samuel M. Slader, Charles Gorway, Henry White, George Wilmot Bonner, and John Orrin Smith; after designs by James Northcote and William Harvey. All the ornamental letters engraved by Ebenezer Landells.
With a portrait of Northcote on the t.p.
Part of the fables in verse.
"Chiswick Press: printed by C. Whittingham"--Colophon.
"Sketch of the life of James Northcote": p. [xiii]-liv is by the editor, E.S. Rogers.
Includes index to the engravings, p. [243]-248.
Manuscripts and original drawings for 97 of the 101 fables published in this series are in the Morgan Library (MA 2445, MA 2446). Also in the Library are Northcote's manuscripts for three poetic fables (unpublished?): The church and the storks, The parliament of beasts, and The wolf and the lamb previously owned by G.N. Ray (MA 4500).
Description
lx, 248 p. : ill. (wood engravings), port. ; 20 cm
Provenance
Inscribed by "Cubitt"; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's green moire cloth.
Classification
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