Search Results: Authors starting with I from Bernard Quaritch Ltd

8vo, pp. 31, [1 blank]; six engraved plates with delicate contemporary hand-colouring; the odd small tear to margins, endpapers slightly foxed, else a very good copy in original green pebble-grained cloth, base of spine bumped, red morocco label to spine, gilt; armorial bookplate to both pastedowns; gift inscription: 'Elijah(?) P. Rowley – from Sir G – Christmas Day, 1858'.First English edition, rare, first published as Illustrations of Rip Van Winkle (NY, 1848) in oblong folio. For this more compact English edition the publisher and early photographic entrepreneur Joseph Cundall made an early use of photography: 'The present illustrations have been reduced from the originals, which are much larger, by the agency of the daguerreotype, and I hope that the expression of every line has been most faithfully preserved'. Simms would most likely have traced the images that the daguerreotypes transferred to the engraved plates, though he also went on to publish photolithography. The publisher Cundall… Read More