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ROWLANDSON'S CHARACTERISTIC SKETCHES OF THE LOWER ORDERS, INTENDED AS A COMPANION TO THE NEW PICTURE OF LONDON. by ROWLANDSON, THOMAS - 1820

by ROWLANDSON, THOMAS

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ROWLANDSON'S CHARACTERISTIC SKETCHES OF THE LOWER ORDERS, INTENDED AS A COMPANION TO THE NEW PICTURE OF LONDON. by ROWLANDSON, THOMAS - 1820

ROWLANDSON'S CHARACTERISTIC SKETCHES OF THE LOWER ORDERS, INTENDED AS A COMPANION TO THE NEW PICTURE OF LONDON.

by ROWLANDSON, THOMAS

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London: Samuel Leigh, 1820. 16mo (5 ½ x 3 ½ inches), nineteenth century three-quarter red morocco, spine with gilt bands, ornaments and lettering; marbled boards and matching endpapers; tissue guards. Pretty copy of the first edition of Rowlandson's second series of London street scenes and tradespeople in lively detailed settings. Male and female purveyors of food: rhubarb, cherries, baked goods, fish, dog meat, cucumber, etc. Trades, among others: the fireman, card sharp, itinerant musicians, raree-showman, man with telescope ("A Peep at the Comet"), beggars including disabled sailors, and , as usual, old Jews selling old clothes. Published as a supplement to Leigh's Guide to London. Hand colored frontispiece, advertisement and 53 hand colored plates with tissue guards. Charming little book. Tooley 424. Grolier 44. Not in Abbey, Life.. 3/4 Morocco . Fine. Illus. by Rowlandson, Thomas.. 16mo.
  • Bookseller Independent bookstores US (US)
  • Illustrator Rowlandson, Thomas.
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  • Book Condition Used - Fine
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher by W. Clowes for Samuel Leigh
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1820
  • Size 16mo
  • Keywords London, Regency London, Color Plate, English Color Plate Books, Trades, london
  • Size 16mo

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Rowlandson's Characteristic Sketches of the Lower Orders, Intended as a Companion to the New Picture of London: Consisting of Fifty-Four Plates, Neatly Coloured

by Rowlandson, Thomas

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London: Samuel Leigh, 1820. First Edition. Full Morocco. Near Fine. A harder-to-find Rowlandson title that with its small plates vividly brings back the liveliness of the London street of its day. 12mo. 14 cm, or 5.5 inches, tall. Very much in the tradition of Hogarth, and pre-figuring Mayhew's "London Labour and London Poor", except this is virtually entirely visual. Here we find peddlers of every stripe (dog meats, artwork, doormats, earthenware, roasting jacks, matches, etc.), con-men, musicians. The backdrops are often stately Georgian structures, and there is a gentleness and joyfulness to some of the depictions that marks a small departure from the acerbity of some caricatures of the day and even some of Rowlandson's own work. While the faces are decisively un-realistic, there is a sense of movement in many of the images that is real, and one does get a sense of how things really must have been from this collection of plates. Full blue morocco, with gilt turn ins. Joints rubbed. A few… Read More
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