Accession number
PML 142426
Creator
Northcote, James, 1746-1831.
Published
London : Geo. Lawford, Saville Passage ... , 1828.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
1st ed.
"Johnson, Apollo Printing Office, Brook Street, Holborn."--Colophon.
Engraved frontispiece portrait of Northcote by W.H. Worthington after Harlow.
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; portrait of Northcote, engraved by W.H. Worthington and dated 1829 (from the 2nd ed.?) inserted.
"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.
Part of the fables in verse.
Title printed in red and black.
Includes index to the engravings on p. [267]-272.
A large paper copy.
Northcote's signed autograph manuscript for three poetic fables (unpublished?): The church and the storks, The parliament of beasts, and The wolf and the lamb, previously owned by G.N. Ray, are in the Morgan Library (see MA 4500).
"Johnson, Apollo Printing Office, Brook Street, Holborn."--Colophon.
Engraved frontispiece portrait of Northcote by W.H. Worthington after Harlow.
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; portrait of Northcote, engraved by W.H. Worthington and dated 1829 (from the 2nd ed.?) inserted.
"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.
Part of the fables in verse.
Title printed in red and black.
Includes index to the engravings on p. [267]-272.
A large paper copy.
Northcote's signed autograph manuscript 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, are in the Morgan Library (see MA 4500).
Description
[4], iii, [1], 272 p. : ill. (wood engravings), port. ; 27 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Purple publisher's cloth.
Classification
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