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Price: US$115.44 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A scarce first edition of the first volume of William Hogarth's complete works. First edition. Scarce work. Volume one only. Illustrated with frontispiece and sixty-three plates. Collated complete. A collection of the works of William Hogarth, an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist, and writer. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". With biographical anecdotes, a chronological catalogue and commentary by John Nichols. In the original full calf binding. Externally, sound with bumping to the extremities. Joints tender but still reasonably firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with light scattered spotting. Title page, frontispiece, and front endpapers are loosely inserted. Bookplate to front pastedown. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$161.27 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1808. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. Hardback. GOOD First edition. Gilt titles. Brown marbled boards. Vol I front board detached and some pages loose. Previous owners name. Ex Libris. Foxing. Edgewear. 12x9.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$318.69 + shipping
Description: In-folio, pp. 1 di frontespizio a stampa, un ritratto di Hogarth all'antiporta e altre 159 tavole incise su rame f.t. dal Cook riproducenti il corpo delle incisioni di Hogarth (l'ultima tavola è ripiegata). Legatura del secondo '800 in mezza pelle verde e angoli con titolo in oro su tassello rosso su dorso a nervetti dorati. Piatti marmorizzati. Cerniere fessurate e parte del dorso staccato. Qualche fioritura. Discreto esemplare nel complesso. Prima edizione. Raccolta del corpus grafico hogarthiano, qui fedelmente reinciso dal Cook (1744 o 1745-1818).
Seller: LIBRERIA ANTIQUARIA PIEMONTESE, TORINO, Italy
Price: US$341.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vol. 2 published in 1810. 2 volumes: vii, [1], 524 p., frontispiece and 62 leaves of engraved plates; viii, 444, [30] p., frontispiece and 95 leaves of plates (one folded): one in-text engraving; 29 cm. Original brown boards; both spines are covered in brown library repair tape with title and call number written in white on spine. Pages are untrimmed. Former owner's name on blank page preceding frontispiece in each volume: "H. Hunt." Oval stamp on front fixed endpaper of Dickinson College Library. Embossed stamp of that library on title pages. Modern endpapers. This is complete, with the 159 leaves of plates called for in the list of illustrations (and one engraving in text). In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; solid library spine repairs; occasional foxing, primarily in margins; otherwise, clean and tight.
Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$481.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An uncommon work compiling over one-hundred and fifty of the prints of William Hogarth, a wonderful exploration of the work of the influential artist. The first edition of this uncommon work.A beautiful study on the works of William Hogarth, his distinctive works faithfully reproduced for this work by Thomas Cook.Illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding plate, and one-hundred and fifty-four plates.Collated, complete. Four of the plates show two engravings.Hogarth was an English painter and printmaker, known for his social satire cartoons. He is best known for his series 'A Harlot's Progress', 'A Rake's Progress', and 'Marriage A-la-Mode', which are included in full in this volume.Cook was an engraver who is known for his detailed and sympathetic reproductions of Hogarth's works, whilst also illustrations his own portraits of figures such as George Washington and Samuel Johnson. In a half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, rubbed. Minor bumping to the extremities. A few light marks to the boards and spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with some scattered spots. Neat repair to the verso of the title page. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$511.00 + shipping
Description: Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Gilt lettering to spine, raised bands with gilt-cross bands. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. An exceptional copy - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 0 pages; All edges marble. Rear folding plate present. Scattered marginal foxing. Added t. P. Engraved portrait. 110 plates (no text published) . Subjects: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. England - London. 2 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$568.00 + shipping
Description: Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Gilt lettering to spine, raised bands with gilt-cross bands. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. An exceptional copy - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 0 pages; All edges marble. Rear folding plate present. Scattered marginal foxing. Added t. P. Engraved portrait. 110 plates (no text published) . Subjects: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. England - London. 2 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Quartos, 3 volumes; VG; bound in contemporary unsigned polished calf, boards with stamping in blind, rules in gilt, paneled spines with gilt stamping, gilt titling, later rebackings with boards and spines preserved; edges of text block marbled, marbled endpapers; some rubbing and general shelfwear, bumping to corners; bookplate of Robert Thomas Thomson to front pastedowns; with 212/213 plates, Vol 1: 62/63 plates, lacking plate IX of Hudibras, Vol 2: with 100 plates, Vol 3: with 50 plates; shelved above US Politics. With the uncommon supplement third volume published in 1817.; 1362816. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.