Accession number
PML 142427
Creator
Northcote, James, 1746-1831.
Published
London : John Murray ..., 1833.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"Chiswick Press: printed by C. Whittingham"--Colophon.
"Sketch of the life of James Northcote": p. [xiii]-liv is by the editor, E.S. Rogers.
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.
Includes index to the engravings, p. [243]-248.
Large paper copy.
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 Also in the Library are Northcote's manuscripts for three poetic fables (unpublished?): The church and the storks, The parliament of beasts, and The wolf and the lamb previously owned by G.N. Ray (MA 4500).
Part of the fables in verse.
With a wood engraved portrait of the author on the t.p.
"Sketch of the life of James Northcote": p. [xiii]-liv is by the editor, E.S. Rogers.
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.
Includes index to the engravings, p. [243]-248.
Large paper copy.
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 Also in the Library are Northcote's manuscripts for three poetic fables (unpublished?): The church and the storks, The parliament of beasts, and The wolf and the lamb previously owned by G.N. Ray (MA 4500).
Part of the fables in verse.
With a wood engraved portrait of the author on the t.p.
Description
lx, 248 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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