A Catalogue of Books Illustared by Thomas Rowlandson

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T he C o m m ittee on Publications o f T he Grolier Club certiﬁ es th at this copy o f a Catalogue o f Books illus trated by Thomas Rowlandson is o ne o f an edition o f two hundred copies on Van Gelder ! onen h an d

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’ TH OMA S R OW LANDSON S li fe and work cover the formative period o f

English social ca ricature , as he was 1 6 born in July , 7 5 , eight years before the death o f Hogarth , and died in 1 8 2 April , 7 , eight years be fore the ’ publication o f John Leech s E tc hing s n k tc hin s a d S e g . Leaving the schools o f the Royal Academy at the age o f sixteen , he spent two yea rs in a Pa ri sian ateli er , a fter which he returned to London and the Academy , only to go again to Paris . In 1 777 he set up in London a s portrait painter , but his early bent for caricature and his a p petite for li fe caused him to spend much o f hi s time rambling on the Continent and about the E nglish countryside , sketching landscape , men and manners . Sometime in the ea rly eighties he seems deﬁnitely to have thrown in his lot with Gillray and Bunbury, and therea fter to have N OTE

made his living from caricature . In 1 8 0 9 he began work for Acker ’ P o e tic a l Ma a z ine mann s g , starting that series o f book illustrations by which he is p r o b a bly most popularly

- remembered to day . We are told o f his aimless wan dering about the country , o f hi s indo lence and dissipation , o f hi s gambling and high living , and o f the reproba tion with which his habits o f li fe were rega rded by the good peopl e o f hi s day , but undoubtedly it i s to j ust these things that we a re indebted fo r the ma rvellous record which he l eft o f the England he knew , perhaps the most important contribution to our knowledge o f the manners o f the

Englishman during . the extr a o r di nary years from 1 78 0 to 1 8 2 5 . Hi s predecessors and contempo ra ri es as ca ricaturists vacillated be tween heavy moralizing and savage sati re , the monotony o f which was reli eved only by raucous laughter .

Rowlandson , with hi s academic train ing and his soj ourns in the Pa ri s o f l e Fr eu d eb er Moreau j eune , g and viii N OTE

D ec ebucourt , however , escaped the centriciti es and insulariti es o f his fel lows and brought to hi s work the sure hand and smiling appreciation o f manners and costume that have ever since been the distinguishing trait o f

English soci al caricature . Without him it may well be doubted whether the Leech and Doyle , the Keene and Du M aurier we know would ever have existed . E n lis h M r . Martin Hardi e in his g C o l o u r ed B o o k s gives the following account o f the manner in which Row l a nds o n p roduced many o f his book illustrations and sheets o f carica tures “ For the colouring o f aquatints a publi sher had to keep a number o f workmen occupied in this particular

. in task Rudolph Ackermann , for a f stance , ha d large sta f o f engravers and colourists working continually at his R epository o f Arts . The magni tude o f the work will be best realized by considering what the issue o f a

c o o single book meant . The Mi r c s m o Lo nd o n f , for instance , contains one

ix NOTE hundred and four plates and one thousand copi es o f the book were published . This means that for this one book alone at least plates were separately coloured by hand ; and any one who has studied Acker mann ’s books knows with what uni form excellence this colouring was done , and to what a high degree o f

ﬁnish it frequently attained . Let us consider for a moment how one o f ’ R o wl a nd s o n s coloured plates for thi s work would b e produced The a rtist was summoned to the R epository from his lodgings in James Street , a in the Adelphi , and supplied with p - per , reed p en , Indian ink , and some - china saucers o f water colour . Thus o ff equipped , he could dash two cari c a tu r es for publication within the day ; but in the case o f the coloured books he worked with greater care .

With hi s ra re certainty o f styl e , he made a sketch , rapid but inimitable . This he etched in outline on a copper plate , and a print wa s immediately prepared for him on a pi ece o f draw - ing paper . Taking his Indian ink , he added to this outline the delicate tints NOTE that expressed the modelling o f the i f gures , and the shadowing o f inte riors , a rchitecture , o r landscape . The copper plate was then handed to one ’ o f Ackermann s numerous sta ff o f en — Elu c k gravers , Stadler , Havell , and the rest . When Rowlandson returned in the a fternoon he would ﬁnd the shadows all dexterously trans ferred to the plate by means o f aquatint . Taking a proo f o f this o r his own shaded drawing , the a rtist completed it in those light washes o f colour which a re so peculia rly his own ; and this tinted impression was handed as a copy to the trained staff o f colour ists u n , who , with yea rs o f practice der Ackermann ’ s p ersonal super vision , ha d attained superlative ” skill . In the following catalogue the books a re divided into two classes those containing illustrations designed by Rowlandson ( who in most cases seems to have done the etching a s well , at l east to the extent described above ) , and those which Rowlandson engraved a fter the designs o f fellow a rtists . The dates on prints quoted

xi N OTE in the catalogue re fer to the copies exhibited , but have been found to b e uni form in all copies o f given books which have been examined unless otherwise stated . To thi s la rge -paper edition o f the catalogue a re added a list o f the drawings by Rowlandson which were exhibited , and a brief summary o f book illustrations by him , or attrib u te d to him , not included in the ex i n hibit o . The Committee on Arrangements takes pl easure in acknowledging the a ssistance o f the Ha rry Elkins Widener M emorial Library at Ha r va rd in allowing a thorough examina tion o f its wonderful Rowlandson col lection . Any va riations discovered by this further comparison o f copies a re noted in the catalogue . Aside from the members o f the club who have generously contributed thei r colle e tions , the committee has especially to thank M rs . George D . Pratt , M r .

John E . M adden , M r . J . Pierpont

Morgan , M r . H . L . R . Edga r , and

M r . G . D . Smith . C O NT E N TS

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I L L UST R A T I O N S D E S I GN E D B Y R O W L A ND S O N

I L L UST R A TI O N S E X E C UT E D B Y R O W LA ND SO N A FT E R D E S I GNS B Y O TH E R A R T I ST S

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P PE I — U A I O B Y O R A N D X I L L ST R T NS ,

A I B U E T O R O A O NO T TT R T D , WL N D S N , I N C L UD E D I N T H E EX H I B ITI O N

LI ST O F R E PR O D U CTI O N S

Vignette from the title-page o f The

Thi rd Tour o f D octo r Syntax , in Sea rch o f a Wi fe ”

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Smoking a French Buck T h e c entral ﬁ gu re seem s to repres ent R o wlandso n D n ( rawi g No . 4 ) A Plate from Outlines o f Figures 6 ( No . )

C ries o f London : Poultry Seller

D in ( raw g No . 9 ) A Village Scene

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L I ST O F B O O K S

R Des Doctor Syntax eise , 43 c s ee Do tor Syntax , The Tour of , Syntax

Doctor Syntax in Paris , 44 L Don Quichotte romantique , e , 43 D ’ O l e . R 10 8 1 0 y y, Sir Charles Torn aw , , 9 L — Engelbach , ewis . N aples , 45 47 — English Dance of Death , The , 49 55 —8 English Spy, The , 75 7 R lic k f . e s O Farquhar , Ferdinand The a 6 S aint , 55, 5 H Fielding, enry . The Adventures of Joseph

Andrews , 9 H 10 The istory of Tom Jones ,

1 0 , 1 1

ff s ee H Gambado , Geo rey, Bunbu ry , enry William 1 0 Ghost Stories , 7 ﬁ Goldsmith , Oliver . The Vicar of Wake eld ,

63, 64 6—8 Grand M aster , The , 5 5 — H . H . H 8 1 arrison , W The umourist , 7 8 H — istory of Johnny Quae Genus , The , 73 75 H istory of the Westminster Election , 4 , 5

H orse Accomplishments , 8 4 , 85 H 1 00 1 0 1 udibras , , H 8- 8 1 umourist , The , 7 H H 1 1—1 ungarian ighland B roadside , 3 Of 8 2 8 Imitations Modern Drawings , , 3 I nvestigation of the Charges Duke of

Y ork , 32 , 33

Johnny Newcome , The Military Adventures f — O , 47 49 — 6 —6 Adventures in the N avy , 5 7 xviii L I ST O F B O O K S H — Johnny Quae Genus , The istory of , 73 75

Joseph Andrews , 9 0— Journal of Sentimental Travels , 7 73 r v d — Le B run T a es t e , 86 8 8 L H —8 ecture on eads , A , 9 5 9 L ove in Caricature , 84. L L oyal Volunteers of ondon Environs , — 1 3 1 5 i 8 86 M atrimon al Comforts , 5, L 2 2 —0 Microcosm of ondon , The , 3

Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome , T he — , 4 7 49 H L 1 —2 1 Miseries of uman ife , 9

Mitford , John . The Adventures of Johnny 6 Newcome in the N avy , 7 1 —1 More Miseries , 7 9 10 Morsels for M erry Mortals , 4 8 1 My Wife , — N aples and the Campa—gna Felice , 45 47 Outlines of Figures , 7 9

Papworth and others . Poetical Sketches of 1 0 1 - 10 Scarborough , 3

Picturesque Beauties of Boswell , 5, 6 ’ Pl a tts s 1 Popular Original Dances , 5 H L 1 6 1 Pleasures of uman ife , The , , 7 i z 0 —2 Poet cal M aga ine , 3 3 1 0 1—1 0 Poetical Sketches of Scarborough , 3 —0 Prayers and Journals , 8 8 9 H i ? Qui —, The Grand M aster , or Adventures of , 56 58 R acing Series , 7 R L Lo 1 0 - 1 0 6 eal ife in ndon , 4 R elic k s 6 of a Saint , The , 55, 5 xix L I ST O F B OO K S R epository of Arts , 73 R heda r iu m , The , 3 ’ R o wl a nds o n s Characteristic Sketches of the L 68—0 ower Orders , 7 ’ R o wl a nd s o n s 8- 60 World in Miniature , 5

Sheets of Picturesque Etchings , 9 1 00 Sterne , B eauties of , 99 , —A 1 0 0 Sentimental Jou rney,

. L Stevens , George Alexander A ecture on — II ea ds 9 9 8 , 5 — Syntax , The Tour of Doctor , 33 37 8 The Second Tou r , 37, 3 —1 The Thi rd Tour , 39 4 1— [Three Tou rs] , 4 43 — [Translation and Imitations] , 43 45 1 0 Tom Jones , R 1 0 8 1 0 Tom aw , , 9

Tour of Doctor Prosody , The , 44 s ee Tour of Doctor Syntax , The , Syntax L Tour of Doctor Syntax through ondon , The , 44 ﬁ 6 6 Vicar of Wake eld , The , 3, 4

W es tm ac o tt . , Charles M The English Spy , — 75 78 H Westminster Election , istory of the , 4 , 5

Woodward , G . M . Prayers and Journals , — 8 8 90 8—60 World in Miniature , The , 5

Y . ork , Duke of Investigation of Charges ,

32 , 33

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ILLUSTRATIONS DESIGNE D BY R OWLAN D SON

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1 R H E DAR I UM O f THE , for the Sale All i sorts o f C arriages By Gregory G gg . A N ew Book O f Horses And Ca r ’ ’

D s i n 81 c h . r ia g es . e g d E t d by T Row l a n o n P d u b . . ds . by E Jackson

Oblong quarto . No letterpress . Nine plates ( including title-page ) de signed and etched by Rowlandson ;

colored . The plates a re signed Rowlandson

( except the last , representing a coach ’ without horses ) , and bea r Jackson s

: . imprint . Three have titles A Hack

— - B rewers D rays . M illers Waggon . The other plates are o f a simila r O f character , one them b eing dated

1 78 4 . Grego lists this tentatively under

1 8 . . 7 3 ( see also hi s Vol I , p THOMA S ROWLA NDSON

2 HI STORY OF THE WE STM I N STER T ON E LEC I The Second E dition .

By Lovers O f Truth And Justice .

Audi Alterem Pa rtem . London Printed For The Editors

M . D C C . LXXXV

Quarto . Second edition . Title , dedication “ ” — R . v and Preface to the eader , pp [ ] xii ; “ Errata” and folded table ( not included in 1 — pagination ) ; text , pp . [ ] 574 . Sixteen plates ( partly folded ) de

signed by Rowlandson ; colored .

The plates , most o f which bea r W . ’ Humphrey s imprint , a re as follows

The . Rival Candidates ( April 8 — 1 78 4 ) Liberty and Fame intr o du c

ing Female Patriotism to B ritania . — The Champion o f the People 1 1 ( M a rch , The State Auc 2 — tion ( M a rch 6 , Master Billy ’s Procession to Grocers Hall 8 — ( M a rch , B ritanni a roused The Hanoveri an Horse and 1 B ritish Lion ( Ma rch 3 ,

The Westminster Watchman . The 1 I Westminster Mendicant , —The Westminster D eserter THOMAS ROWLANDSON

1 8 ( May , Procession 0 to the Hustings ( April 3 , ’ 2 2 Wit s Last Stake ( April , The Apostate Jack R 1 —A ( Ma rch , Peep ’ into Fri a r B acon s Study ( Ma rch 3, — Mars and Venus 2 1 8 ( April , 7 4 ; published by W .

Wells , and not mentioned by Grego it does not greatly resemble Row l and s o n ) A Political Heat . 1 1 8 ( May 9 , 7 4 ; not mentioned by

Grego ) . These fo rm only a small part o f the numerous caricatures drawn by Row l a nd s o n during the contested election 1 8 fo r Westminster in 7 4 , many o f which were i ssued as single prints . The first edition o f the book appeared fl 1 8 . in 7 4 The preface , re ecting on the Duchess o f D evonshi re , was a fte rwa rd suppressed .

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PICT URE S QUE B EA UTIE S O F B OSWELL Part The Fi rst —Second] Containing THOM A S R O‘V LANDSON'

Ten Prints , D esigned and Etched by Two Capital Artists o f The

Following Subj ects . [ Titles o f plates and quotation from Boswell . ] Pub

lis h ed Nl a 1 8 6 . in y [June] , 7 , by E Jackson

T w . Oblong folio . o volumes No letter

in . press . Published gray paper wrappers Twenty plates designed and etched by Rowlandson from suggestions by ” Collins , a s called for in the lists o f plates on the wrappers .

The plates a re not signed , but bear descriptions below , with references to ’ Boswell s Jo u r na l o f a To u r to th e “ ” H ebr id es ( Vid e Journal , with page number ) . In Vol . I , six a re \ b l I l l 0 . dated ay 5, and four , ay 3 In 1 Vol . I I , three a re dated M ay 5, one , 1 0 1 June , two , June 5, and four ,

June 2 0 .

’ This ca ricatures B oswell s Jo u r na l o a To u r to th e H e br id es f , which ha d appea red in 1 78 5 . TH OMA S ROWLANDSON

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N S 4 [ RACI G SERIE .

Quarto . No letterpress . Six aquatint plates designed and

( probably) etched by Rowlandson .

The plates a re cut close and mounted , th itl e t es being mounted sepa rately .

They a re as follows : Mounting . Weighing ( not mentioned by Grego ) — Racing ( called by Grego “ The ” — Sta rt ) Betting Running out O f the Course ( not mentioned by — Grego ) . B etween Heats ( called by Grego The The ﬁ rst and fourth plates contain ’ O Kell portraits o f Colonel D ennis y,

owner o f the celebrated raceho rse ,

Eclipse . — 1 79 0 1 79 2 — 1 . 3 . 5 No . [ 4 , suppli ed in ink] Price 5 O f Outlines Figures , Landscape , n C attl e , Etched By T . Rowla dson , For The Use O f Lea rners ; Published

NO . 0 By S . W . Fores , 5 , Picca dilly , THOMA S ROWLA NDSON

Corner Of Sackville-Street ; ( Where m ay be ha d all the Wo rks o f H o garth , Rowlandson , Bunbury, and W o o dwa rd z ) [ twenty-ﬁve lines O f ’ Fo r es s 1 0 a dvertisements , 79

Folio . In four numbers , as issued . Original gray, paper wrappers , with labels lettered as above . Sixteen plates designed and etched in outline by Rowlandson .

The plates a re numbered , and each ’ Fo r es s contains imprint , with dates — : . 1 8 1 0 . a s follows Nos 4 , M a rch , 79 — 8 1 0 . . . 1 6 No 5, June , 79 N o , — 1 N . 2 2 0 0 . O June , 79 7 , June 7

1 0 . . 8 2 0 1 0 . . 79 No , June , 79 No — . 2 0 1 1 . . 1 0 . 6 9 , Jan , 79 No , Aug , — — 1 0 . . 1 1 . 1 I 1 . . 79 No , Jan 3 , 79 No — 6 1 2 . 6 1 0 . . 1 1 , Aug , 79 Nos 3 , June

The plates bea r no titles , no r does ’ R o wl a nds o n s name appea r in any o f them . Each plate contains va rious scenes and a large number o f ﬁgures employed in va rious pastimes and pursuits , including ﬁ shing , shooting , 8

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8 D N N . FIEL I G , HE RY The History O f

Tom Jones , A Foundling . By Henry H o m inu m Fielding , E sq . M ores Ml o ru m - V Ol u t Vidit . Volume I

ume I II ] . Printed Fo r J . Murray , r in 1 2 . E d . London , And J . Sibbald , 79 “

. . . : Octavo Three volumes Vol I Title , To H L the onourable George ittleton , and “ ” iii — Contents , pp . [ J xix , with unnumbered “ ” leaf , Subj ects of the Prints , insert between — — . 1 2 80 . . : pp viii ix ; text , pp [ ] Vol I I Title , “ ” Subj ects of the Prints , and Contents , pp . i — — “ 1 0 . . : [ J xi ; text , [ ] 35 Vol I I I Title , Con ” i tents , and Subj ects of the Prints , pp . [ ] - 1 I . [ ix] ; text , pp . [ ] 3 6 Twelve plates ( four in each volume ) designed and etched by Rowlandson

colored .

The plates have no titles , but each

contains volum e and page designation , ’ Sibb ald s 1 2 imprint , dated 79 , and ”

. et h R owlandson invt Fec , with

ff . slight di erences in capitalization , etc

9 THIRT EE N E T CHI NGS Illustrative O f Striking Passages In Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews ; D esigned By

w . Thomas Ro landson , Esq Also

1 0 THOM AS ROWLANDSON Specimen O f A New Edition O f ’ Sm o ll ett s Works . Edinburgh

1 8 0 8 .

A prospectus for a later edition , con taining the twelve plates for To m Jo nes Jo s e h A ndr ews , one for p ( Parson Adams in a Suspicious Situ H u m hr e ation ) , and one fo r p y Clink er ( The Marri age The plates may be distinguished from those o f the o riginal edition by the fact that they contain titles instead ’ o f Sibb a ld s imprint . Between the plates are pages o f explanatory letter press .

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HU NGARIAN 8: HIGHLA ND BR OA D WO D S R Twenty Four Plates , D e signed and etched by T . Rowlandson , Ms lfS under the direction o f es H .

Angelo and Son , Fencing Masters to the Light Horse Volunteers o f Lon don and Westminster dedicated to Pu blish Colonel Herries . d as the F bY 1 2 th 1 e . . . Act directs 799 , by H Angelo THOM AS ROWLA NDSON

Oblong folio . To Colonel H erries “ ” i and Subscribers , pp . [ ] There is no

- printed title page . Original gray paper wrap per bound in . Twenty-four aquatint plates ( includ ing title-page ) designed and etched by Rowlandson ; colo red .

There i s no list o f the plates , which bea r technical , milita ry titles in panels on the bo rders Most o f them a re signed by Rowlandson in the body o f ’ the plate , and all have the publisher s r Se t . 1 name below , with the date , p , 1 8 79 , except the title , which is dated a s above , the eighth and ninth plates which have no imprint , and the seven teenth , from which the date is omit ted . The title bears also the words , “ ” Aquatinta by I . Hill . With foreign invasion threatening our sho res , martial a rdour was the 1 keynote o f the yea r 79 9 , and sub scribers were readily found fo r the H u ng a r ia n a nd H ig hla nd B r o a d s wo r d E xer c is e The twenty four plates in coloured aquatint Show military exercises and movements o f in cavalry , but the single ﬁgures the

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exer foreground , illustrating sword cises , a re relieved and animated by theintroduction in the background o f b at va rious skirmishes , assaults and - tle scenes , so that the plates lose all sense o f formality . In the general liveliness o f the picture you forget that the two central ﬁgures illustrate ‘ ’ Cut two , and horse s off side protect , ’ ae new guard , and other formul o f

H a r die . E n broadsword exerci se . g k lis h Co l o u r ed B o o s .

Three copi es a re exhibited .

LOYA L VOLU NT EER S O f London 85 81 Envi rons , Infantry C aval ry , in thei r respective Uni forms In

8 7 Plates . D esigned Etched by T .

Rowlandson , and Dedicated by Per mission to His Royal Highness the

Duke o f Gloucester . “ Folio . Dedication , Preface , dated August “ 1 2 1 L , 799 , ist of Subscribers and Con i tents , pp . [ ] Each two plates are placed to face each other , with unnumbered leaves of description between . Eighty-seven plates ( including title page ) designed and etched by Row

I 3 THOM A S ROWLA NDSON l a nd s o n ; colored , with a lavish use o f gold .

The plates bear military descriptions as titles , and imprints , and a re signed “ Rowlandson d elin . They are num — — bered 1 77 ( Nos . 77 79 being com bin ed 1 —8 on one plate ) , and ( cavalry ) with a ninth cavalry plate unnumbered . In the copies examined — : . 1 1 2 they a re dated as follows Nos , — 1 8 . 1 1 6 1 June I , 79 ; N os 3 and 9 , — 8 2 0 2 2 1 6 1 8 . 1 1 June , 79 ; Nos 7 , , — 2 1 1 8 . 2 1 2 and 5, July , 79 Nos 4 and 8 2 1 0 1 8 . 2 6 2 7 , July , 79 ; Nos and , — 1 8 1 8 . 2 2 July , 79 ; Nos 9 3 , 34 and

8 . 6 . 1 3 , Aug I , 79 ; Nos 33 and 35,

1 8 . . 1 Aug . 7 , 79 ; No 37 , Aug 4 , — 8 8 0 . 2 0 1 1 8 . 79 ; Nos 3 4 , Aug , 79 ; — 8 . 1 . 1 N os . 4 4 4 , Sept 7 , 79 ; Nos 4 5,

8 . 6 8 . 2 1 1 4 7 and 4 , Sept , 79 ; No 4 , — 1 1 8 . 2 . Sept . 4 , 79 ; Nos 4 9 5 , Oct 5, — 8 1 . . 2 1 79 8 ; Nos 53 55, Oct 5, 79 ;

8 . . 6 . 1 1 Nos 5 and 57 , Nov , 79 ; Nos — 6 1 —6 1 6 1 8 . 8 6 0 . 5 , Nov , 79 ; Nos 4 , 1 8 2 0 1 8 . 66 . D ec . , 79 ; No , D ec ,

6 0 . 1 8 . 6 6 I 79 Nos 5, 7 , 9 and 7 , Jan ,

8 . 1 . 6 8 . 1 0 1 79 9 ; No , D ec , 79 ; N os

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1 2 . 1 6 1 . 7 and 7 , Feb , 79 9 ; Nos 73,

6 2 0 1 . 75 and 7 , April , 79 9 ; No 74 , — 6 1 . M ay , 799 ; Nos 77 79 ( on one 2 0 1 1 plate ) , May , 799 ; Nos . and 3

2 1 8 . 2 caval ry , June 4 , 79 ; Nos and 4

1 1 8 . cavalry , July , 79 ; No 5 cavalry , — 8 . 8 . 1 1 6 . Oct , 79 Nos cavalry , Nov 1 1 8 2 , 79 ; unnumbered plate , July 4 , 1 79 9

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2 NT N D A S N 1 T O B E C O I UE OCC I O A LLY . ’ Pl a tts s 81 Popula r O riginal D ances ,

&c . Fo r The Pi ano Forte , Violin

With Proper Figures London ,

c . Printed 85 Sold by J . Platts [

“ Pl ’ Folio . List of a tts s Popular Original — . 1 8 . Dances and music , pp [ ] 3

s c . Title vignette signed Hunter , surrounded by border o f various

dancing figures and symbols , signed Rowlandson but evidently a fter

hi s own design .

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TTON O N . [ BRI , J H ] The Pleasures O f Human Li fe : Investigated cheer fully ; Eluci dated Sati ri cally ; Pro m u lg a ted Explicitly ; and Discussed

Philosophically . In A Dozen D isser t a tio ns H il a r is B ne o lu s & By e v ,

Co . Fellows o f the London Litera ry ” o ri Soci ety o f Lu s s ts . [ Quotations Dibdin from Milton , , and Peter Pin da r . ] Embellished With Five Illus r i - t a t ve Etchings and two Hea d pieces . : London Printed Fo r Longman ,

Hurst , R ees , And Orme , Paternoster

1 8 0 . Row . 7

Adv r . e Sextodecimo Title , A Deprecatory ” “ ” i m en i — t s e t . and Embellishments , pp [ ] xvi ; ” Oﬂi c ial text , including Notice and Dedica tion to the respectable Booksellers and Pub ” — “ lis her s of Great B ritain , pp . [ 1 ] 2 10 ; An analytical and explicatory Index ” and “ Post ” — 1 1 . script , pp . 2 2 2 3

- Tinted frontispi ece and title page , representing Gloom ( “ placed topsy ” turvy ) and Cheerfulness . Five plates designed and etched by Row

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1 - 1 6 Contents and Memoir , pp . [ ] ; text , — . 1 2 1 . 2 1 pp [ 9 ] 3 ; Advertisements , pp [ 5 I t seems probable that there should be a half title between pp . 1 6

Folded colored frontispiece . Twelve aquatint plates designed by Rowland son ; colored .

o f There i s no list plates , which have full descriptions below , and a re , for “ a the most part , signed Rowl ndson f ” ecit . Above each plate i s the title , “ ” More M iseries , and the p age num 8 1 1 1 1 8 ber 4 , 7 , , They were pub lis hed by Ackermann , and a re dated

I 1 8 0 . April , 7

i The book was f rst published , with the

1 8 0 6 . colored frontispiece , in The last page o f the a dverti sements in the present volume reads a s follows

6 s . . Just published , price coloured Graphic Illustrations o f M ore Mis eri es : from the Inimitable Pencil o f

Rowlandson . The Publisher ha s spa red no expense to render this col lection o f Twelve Prints , truly

Unique . We may conﬁdently assert ,

1 8 TH OMA S ROWLANDSON that they possess more genuine hu mour than any others on a similar subj ect , and cannot fail to attract the public attention . The Prints may b e had bound with More Miseri es , Price

1 I s . coloured .

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MI S ERIE S OF H UMAN LI FE : D e signed And Etched By T . Rowland 1 I 8 0 8 son , And Published D ecember

By R . Ackermann R epository o f Arts , 1 0 1 Strand London

Quarto . No letterpress . Original brown paper boards , with green label . Fi fty plates ( I ncluding title-page ) de signed and etched by Rowlandson ; colored .

- They consist o f title page , thirteen “ ” plates o f va rious kinds o f Miseries , 8 0 . 1 1 6 dated Jan , ( one plate ) , and 1 1 8 0 Jan . , 7 , with the secondary designation o f “ Dialogue ” ( Intro du c to r — I 2 . y Di alogue , and ] ” Dialogue , 7 . Dialogue being used

1 9 THOM AS ROWLANDSON twice ) , twelve plates o f More Mi s eri es , a s described under our N o . 1 4 and twenty- four miscellaneous a plates , sixteen o f which gree with ’ Grego s list ( see G rego , Vol . I I , pp . 1 1 9 This i s a collection o f va rious plates 1 8 0 6 1 8 0 1 8 0 8 issued singly in , 7 , and , a nd brought together in this volume . ” The twelve More Miseries plates h a d been al ready issued collectively , ’ R o wl a nd s o n s in 1 8 0 7 . Several o f plates depicting va rious miseries a re not included in the collection , and he continued to issue occasional plates o f like nature until 1 8 1 4 . E ight plates substituted in thi s set for those mentioned by Grego a re : Mis eries Domestic : A cupboa rd in the pa rlour Academy for G rown Ho rsemen : H O W to p a ss a ca rriage d ( signed by Bunbury ) . The In ex — ible Po rter ( Bunbury ) . A Lying in V t — a isi Pl te without inscription , Showing the interio r o f a cobbler 's home . Production o f an Alehouse . — — A C a rt R a c e b l is eries o f Human

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Li fe : being suddenly seized with a ﬁt o f the cramp

The plates menti oned by Grego , and : not herein included , a re Mi series o f Human Li fe : Struggling through the curse o f trying to disentangle your hai r —Miseri es o f Social Li fe : E sco rting four o r five country cousins — — The Enraged Vica r . Miser “ ” i es o f Travel : O miserabile mihi — Miseries o f Travel : B eing mounted on a beast - Miseries o f the Country : Passi ng the worst part o f a rainy winter —Miser i es o f the Country : Whil e on a visit in the Hundred o f E ssex Miseri es o f London : B eing a c o m p u l sory spectato r

T he cover label reads : Miseri es o f

Human Li fe , etc . ; whereas the copy in the Widener Library, with plates agreeing with the copy here shown , bea rs a label , with lettering begin “ ” ning : 50 Plates Coloured .

2 1 TH OM A S ROWLANDSON

1 8 0 8—1 8 1 0

1 6 [ C OLORE D VIGN ETTE . ] The Micro c o m Al s o f London . Thi s Work ready honoured by H IS App r o b a

tion , Is most Humbly D edicated by

Permission , To His Royal Highness The Prince o f Wales By Hi s Grate

ful And M ost Obedient Servant , R . 1 8 0 8 Ackermann . [

: Folio . Three volumes . Vol . I Woodcut ti tle ( not included in pagination ) ; I nt r o du c ” “ ” - i . tion , pp . [ J iv ; Contents and text , pp — I n r du 1 2 1 . . : t o c [ ] 3 Vol I I Woodcut title , ” “ ” i tion and Contents , pp . [ ] text , “ — I nt ro du c 1 2 . . : [ ] 39 Vol I I I Woodcut title , ” “ ’ tion , Contents and publisher s note , pp . “ ” - i . 1 2 80 . [ ] text , pp [ ] ; Index , pp [ 2 8 1

Three dedicatory plates ( one in each

volume ) , designed by T . Tomkins

and engraved in line by R . Ashby vi n ( at the head o f each , a stippled g

ette by T . Williamson a fter E . F .

Bunbury ) . One hundred and four a quatint plates designed and etched

by Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin ,

2 2 THOMA S ROWLANDSON as called fo r in the Contents to the several volumes ; colored .

The plates a re numbered , and all ’ “ have Ackermann s imprint , Row ” l a n o n d s . t Pugin delt e sculpt . in the lower , left corner , and the name o f the aquatinter at the right , as fol - : . ﬁ ft . . lows J Bluek , y five ; J C Stad - ler , twenty eight ; T . Sutherland , ten ;

J . Hill , ten ; Ha rraden , one . In a few cases , the o rder o f the plate numbers di ffers from the order o f the plates demanded by the lists o f con — . . 2 8 2 . tents ( See Vol I , Nos 9 ; Vol

. 1 2 . . 8 I I , Nos 4 , 4 ; Vol I II , Nos 9 , 0 2 Plate 3 is numbered 9 , and 8 “ 8 Plate 5 i s numbered Plate 5, Sec ” ond .

The plates a re dated from January 1 1 8 0 8 1 1 8 1 0 , , to Februa ry , , and run fi in regula r succession , four on the rst O f day each month , with the follow 1 ing exceptions : No . 7 i s dated July 1 1 NO 1 1 ; N o . 73, June ; . 9 , Sept . ;

2 . 1 1 8 1 0 . 1 0 1 No . 9 , Jan , ; No , Nov .

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The titles are a s follows : Vol . I . Pl . 1 , D rawing from Li fe at the Royal 2 Academy , Exhibition Room ,

Somerset House . 3 , Boa rd Room o f — l ’ . As t e s the Admi ralty 4 , y Amphi — theatre . 5, Dining Hall , Asylum . ’ — 6 . , Christi e s Auction Room 7 , The 8 Great Hall , B ank o f England . , — B artholomew Fai r . 9 , Billingsgate — 1 0 M arket . , The Hall , Blue Coat — — . 1 1 ffi e 1 2 School , Bow Street O c , - 1 Pass Room B ridewell . 3, B ritish 1 Institution ( Pall M all ) . 4 , The Mu Hall and Stair C ase , B ritish — 1 seum . 5, The Hall Ca rlton House . — 1 6 , The Roman C atholic Chapel 1 ( Lincolns Inn Fi elds ) 7 , Coal Ex — 1 8 . 1 change . , Royal Cock Pit 9 , ’ - - Water Engine , Cold B ath Fi eld s 2 0 Prison . , The College o f Physi — c ia n s . 2 1 . 2 2 , House o f Commons , ’ Court o f Chancery , Lincoln s Inn — 2 Hall . 3, Court o f Common Plea s , - 2 Westminster Hall . 4 , Court o f

Kings B ench , Westminster H all . 2 5, Court o f Exchequer , Westminster 2 6 Hall . , Covent Ga rden M arket — 2 Westminster Election . 7 , Covent

2 4

THOM A S ROWLANDSON — — 8 57 , Newgate Chap el . 5 , Old — — . . 6 0 B ailey 59 , Opera House , Pan — theon M asquerad e 6 1 Philan th r o ic 6 2 p Society , The Chapel . , s —6 Pillory , Charing C ros 3, The ffi — e 6 . Post O c 4 , Quakers M eeting ’

. . 6 . Vol I II 5, Queen s Palace , St ’ — 6 a . . 6 James s Park , Roy l Ci rcus

6 . 6 8 I n 7 , Royal Exchange , Royal s titu tio n —6 , Albemarle Street . 9 , e — 0 Sadlers Wells Theatr 7 , Session — 1 House , Clerkenwell . 7 , Soci ety for the Encouragement o f Arts

2 o f . 7 , Soci ety Agriculture 73, Som

er s et . House , Strand 74 , Stamp

ffi . O ce , Somerset House 7 5, New

. 6 Stock Exchange 7 , D rawing Room ’ ’ St . James s . 77 , St . Luke s Hospi — in 8 . s tm . W e tal 7 , St M arga rets ,

- ster . 79 , St . M a rtins , in the Fi elds . ’ — — 8 1 8 0 . . , St Paul s C athedral , Sur n — 8 2 rey Institutio , Synagogue , n —8 H o u d s ditc h . Dukes Place , 3, Tat ’ — te r s a ll s . 8 Horse R epository 4 ,

. 8 Temple Church 5, Second , Vi ew — 8 . . 6 o f the Tower , Boa rd o f Trade — 8 8 . 8 7 , Trinity House , Vauxhall 8 Ga rden . 9 , A Vi ew o f London

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0 From the Thames 9 , St . ’ 1 Stephen s , Walbrook . 9 , Watch — l . 2 . o House , St Mary Bone 9 , West s — Ab India Dock 93, Westminster — — bey . 94 , Westminster Hall . 9 5, — 6 . Whitehall . 9 , Workhouse , St ’ — James s Parish . 9 7 , Greenwich Hos — 8 . pital 9 , Chelsea Hospital

9 9 , Military College , Chelsea .

1 0 0 . , New Covent Garden Theatre — 1 0 1 r . 1 0 2 , Horse Armou y, Tower ,

South Sea House Divi dend Hall .

1 0 ffi . 3, Exci se O ce , B road Street 1 0 4 , View o f Westminster Hall and

B ridge .

The original idea was to publish this - s . book in twenty four numbers , at 7 6 d , a number , but Ackermann soon found himsel f obliged to raise the 6 price to 1 0 3 . d and the number of - parts to twenty six , saying in the preface to the thi rd volume that when the price i s compared with the work f ﬂ itsel , the publisher atters himself that it will appea r that he has been inﬂuenced by other motives besides those o f gain in the prosecution o f it .

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In its ﬁnal form in three volumes , 1 8 1 0 published in , the book was sold i n . a r E at thirteen guinea s H d e . g lis h o l o r o o k s C u ed B . Concerning the combined work o f intr o du c Rowlandson and Pugin , the “ tion says : The a rchitectural pa rt o f the subj ects that a re contained in this u t work , will be delineated , with the most precision and care , by M r .

Pugin , whose uncommon accuracy and delicate taste have been di splayed in his former productions . With respect to the ﬁgures , they a re from the pen cil o f M r . Rowlandson , with whose pro fessional talents the public a re a l no t ready so well acquainted , that it is ” necessa ry to expatiate on them here .

The book i s a p erfect trea sure-house o f scenes , described with pen and brush , from the London o f a century ago , the work o f Rowlandson and

Pugin b eing equally admi rable . It depicts the time o f transition from the - old to the new To us o f to day , when each successive yea r brings about a disappearance O f the Old

2 8 THOMA S ROWLA NDSON landmarks , modern London and the London o f the Mic r o c o s m scarcely appea r the same city . H ence the per ennial fascination o f the book . Two -thi rds o f the places illustrated have enti rely passed away , the Pil ’ lory , the Old B ailey , the King s B ench

Prison , the Royal Cockpit in B irdcage ’ Walk , Brooks Subscription House , where t h e aristocratic gamesters o f the day played by the light o f shaded candles — these now live only in the pages o f Thackeray and Dickens Pugin ’s own autograph copy o f the [Mic r o c o s m is in the possession o f

M r . Yates Thompson . Pugin bound up in it a set o f uncoloured plates as 1 I 8 well as the colored ones , and also preliminary sketches , mostly in pencil , which he made for the illustrations and which were Obviously sent to Rowlandson that he might add the f ﬁgures . The di ferent manner in which the two artists used the pencil is very interesting ; the delicacy o f Pugin ’s draughtsmanship and the ’ dash o f R o wl a nd s o n s cha racter studies form a striking contrast , and

2 9 THOM A S ROWLANDSON the whole book a ffo rds a ra re o pp o r tu nity o f seeing every plate in its sev ”

Pr id ea x. a t nt eral stages . u Aq u i n r n E g a v i g .

A T ! N OR THE C RICA URE MAGA I E ,

D B A ST O . . H U I R IC MIRR R , By G M “ — Woodward , E sq . Vol . I IV] 1 8 0 8 Publi shed by Thomas Tegg . [ ,

—I V . . Folio . Vols . I I No letterpress Numerous plates ( including va rying

- title pages ) The titl e o f Vol . I II is “ ’ R o wl a nd s o n s C a ricature Maga ” zine . In thi s large collection o f caricatures by C ruikshank , Woodwa rd , Row l a nd s o n and others we ﬁnd about 1 6 0 plates signed by Rowlandson . A set o f ﬁve volumes i s said to contain 4 9 9 plates , but collections differ wi dely .

It wa s ﬁrst i ssued in parts , beginning in 1 8 0 7 . 1 8 0 9

[ VIGN ETT E ] Poetical Magazine ; D edicated To the Lovers o f the

Muse , By the Agent o f the Goddess , — R . Ackermann . Vol . I IV] Lon

30 THOM AS ROWLA NDSON

1 1 8 0 - I don Pub . N ov . , 9 May , ’ R e o s i At R . Ackermann s p tory o f Arts

F . Octavo . our volumes

Numerous aquatint plates ; colored .

Twenty-eight o f the plates illustrate ’ Th e Sc h o o lm a s ter s To u r , a fter wards known as the Fi rst Tour o f

Doctor Syntax ( see No . The plates may be di stinguished from those appearing in the work in book ’ form by the lack o f R o wl a nd s o n s signature , and by the fact that each bears the number and date o f the issue o f the Poetical M agazine in 1 —2 which it appea red ( Nos . 5, M ay 1 1 8 0 , 9 , to Three o f 2 0 the plates , as listed in our No . , di d not appea r in the Poetical Magazine .

B esides the Syntax plates , one illus “ frating The M ansion -House M oni ” tor ( Vol . I facing p . two illustrating Edwin and M atilda ” 6 8 I ( Vol . II , facing pp . and and a woodcut illustrating The last ” 1 8 2 D rop ( Vol . I , p . ) have been attributed to Rowlandson .

3 1 THOMA S ROWLA NDSON

The remaining plates a re landscap es , a fter anonymous a rtists .

T H E I N V E STIGATI ON O F T H E C HA RGE S BR O UGH T AGAI NST H I S R OYA L HIGH N E S S T H E D UK E OF O K Y R , Commander In Chie f , By G .

L . Wa rdle , Esq . M . P . London 1 8 0 Printed By W . Strat ford 9 .

. . : Sextodecimo Two volumes . Vol I Title “ — — i . 0 . 6 and Preface , pp [ ] iv ; text , pp [ 5] 5 ; — . 6 1 6 . . Index to Volume I , pp 5 5 4 Vol I I — “ . 1 6 1 Text , pp [ ] 5 ; Index to Volume I I and “ — Directions to the binder pp . 652 658 ; ’ one leaf of Stratford s advertisements .

- Engraved title page i n each volume , beginning “ Stratford ’s Authentic Edi ” tion . Seventeen po rtraits , engraved by Hopwood ; colored . Fourteen o f the portraits are from sketches by

Rowlandson .

The fourteen portraits which are in scribed “ Engraved by Hopwood ” from a Sketch by Rowlandson , .with ’ the dates o f Stratford s imprint , a re : as follows Colonel Wa rdle ( Feb . r 2 2 M. 2 , Taylor ( April 5,

THOMA S ROWLANDSON

s t . . 1 1 8 1 2 . Horace ] Pub M ay , , at R Ackermann ’s Repository o f Arts

London .

Octavo . Advertisement and imprint , pp . — — “ i . 1 2 [ ] [ iv] text , pp [ ] 75 ; Directions to the ” Binder for placing the Plates , p . - There is no printed title page .

Thirty-one aquatint plates ( including - title page ) , designed and etched by

Rowlandson , a s called for in the di rections to the binder ; colored . The plates a re numbered ( except the fronti spiece and title ) , and dated

1 1 8 1 2 . M ay , o r M ay , The frontis piece is signed Rowlandson and all o f the remaining plates , except NO S 1 . 2 6 the title and , , 7 , 9 , 3 and “ ’ ’ 1 D es i n d 81 E tc h d 9 , a re signed g by

R owlandson . In the following list o f “ ” the plates the words D octor Syntax , which appea r in most o f the titles , a re generally omitted fo r the sake o f brevity : The R evd . Doctor Syntax - 1 ( frontispiece ) Title page . , Doc to r Syntax , Setting out on hi s Tour to — — a s 2 . the L ke , Loosing his Way 3 ,

Stopt by Highwaymen . 4 , Bound

34 TH OM A S ROWLA NDSON

to a tree by Highwaymen . 5, Dis

puting his bill with the Landlady . 6 , Copying the Wit o f the Window .

. 8 7 , Entertained at College , Pur — sued by a Bull . 9 , Mistakes a Gen ’ l m a n fo r — t e s . 1 0 house an Inn ,

Meditating on the Tomb Stones . — 1 1 . 1 2 , Tumbling into the Water , Loses his Money on the R ace Ground — . 1 . 1 at York 3, At a R evi ew 4 , d —1 With my Lor 5, Made free o f

1 6 . the C ellar , Sketching the Lake — 1 . 1 8 7 , D rawing a fter Nature , ’

R o bb d . 1 o f his Property 9 , Sells “ ” — 2 0 . 2 1 Grizzle . , Rural Sport ,

2 2 . And D ai ry M aid . , At Liverpool — 2 2 3, R eading his Tou r 4 , Preach

2 . 85 . ing . 5, D r Syntax Bookseller — 2 6 . , At C ovent Ga rden Theatre ’ - 8 R 2 . 2 e 7 , The Doctor s D ream , ’ tu rn . 2 d from hi s Tour 9 , Taking possession o f his Living .

This ﬁrst appeared in Ackermann ’s P o etic a l Ma a z ine 1 8 0 —1 8 1 1 g , 9 , with ’ Th e Sc h o o lm a s ter s to u r the title , 1 8 ( see NO . ) O f the manner in au which the work was done , the

35 THOM A S ROWLANDSON thor writes in the Advertisement “ An Etching o r a D rawing was a c c o r din l g y sent to me every month , and I composed a certain proportion o f pages in verse , in which , o f course , the subj ect o f the design was in cluded : the rest depended upon what my imagination could furnish .

When the ﬁrst print was sent to me , I di d not know what would be the subj ect o f the second ; and in this man ner , in a great mea sure , the Artist continued designing , and I continued writing , every month for two yea rs , ’ til a work , containing nea r ten thou sand Lines was produced : the Artist and the Writer having no personal communication with , o r knowledge o f ” each other . Thus b egan the col l a bo r a tio n which was the most impor ’ tant event o f Combe s litera ry ca reer .

The plates having been worn by thei r se t use in the magazine , a new was made , with slight va ri ations , fo r the sepa rate work , and three new sub c ts : j e were added the frontispiece , - 2 title page , and plate 7 , showing the

36 TH OMA S ROWLA NDSON Doctor ’s dream o f the battle o f the bo oks . The work was so popula r that four editions appeared in 1 8 1 2 and ﬁ fth 1 8 1 1 8 1 to eighth editions in 3, 5,

1 8 1 7 and 1 8 1 9 respectively . It was translated into French and Ge rman 1 8 2 1 1 8 2 2 in and , and va rious imita tions were issued ( see Nos . 2 5

An American edition , with copi es o f the Rowlandson plates engraved by d William Charles , and colore , was published in Philadelphia . Only its frontispi ece is signed by Charles , the other plates containing no lettering except the titles .

The success o f thi s s o -called First ” Tour l ed to the publication o f Sec ond and Third Tours , which for the sake o f convenient reference we group with this ( see following num bers ) Two copies o f each o f the Tours are exhibited .

OMB M . [ C E , WILLIA ] The Second se Tour Of Docto r Syntax , In a rch

37 TH OM A S ROWLA NDSON i o f Consolat on ; A Po em . Volume

Second . [ Five lines from Horace . ] 8 Published by R . Ackermann 1 2 0 .

. i Octavo Title and Introduction , pp . [ “ - . I 2 iv] ; text , pp [ ] 77 ; Directions to the ”

c th e . Binder for pla ing Plates , p Twenty-four aquatint plates designed a nd etched by Rowlandson , a s called for in the di rections to the binder ;

1 . colored . Woodcut on p . 5

All the plates contain the words , “ D rawn by Rowlandson , with title and imprint . They are dated in i r regula r order ( though alike in all copi es examined ) from January 1 to

1 1 8 2 0 : . August , , a s follows D r Syn t a x and his Counterpa rt ( frontis piece ) . D r . Syntax Lamenting the loss o f his Wi fe ( Jan . At the

Funeral o f his Wi fe ( Jan . Set ting out on his second Tour ( Jan . I ) . — And the Gypsies ( Feb . Loses his Wig ( M a rch — The Visit o f ] D r . Syntax to the Widow Hopeful — 1 . at York ( Feb . ) D r Syntax amused with Pat in the pond ( April — - I n the Glass House ( Ma rch ) .

38 THOMAS ROWLA NDSON — Visits E aton Hall , Cheshi re ( Ma rch — M aking his Will ( May

I ) . In a Court o f Justice ( June Present at a Co ffee -house quar — rel a r B ath (April And the

Superannuated Foxhunter ( April I ) . With the Sk im erto n ( corrected in later issues to “ Skimmington ” ) Riders 1 — ( Aug . ) And the Bees ( July — Visits a Boarding School for young — Dis c o v ladi es ( Feb . M aking a — ery ( Feb . Painting a Portrait V ( l I ay Marriage o f D r . Dicky — B end ( July D r . Syntax at an — ’ Auction ( July 1 ) At a Bookseller s ’ —At ( July I ) . Freemason s Hall ’ ( Aug . M iss Worthy s M ar

ria e . g , D r Syntax in the Chair

( July I ) .

This was ﬁ rst issued in monthly parts .

OM B M . [ C E , WILLIA ] The Third

Tour O f Docto r Syntax , In Sea rch o f

. V a Wi fe , A Poem [ Colored ignette ,

ﬁve lines from Horace . ] London . ’ R e o s i Published at R . Ackermann s p to ry o f Arts

39 THOMA S ROWLA NDS ON — . i I I Octavo Preface and imprint , pp . [ ] ; text , — “ pp . [ 1 ] 2 79 ; Directions to the Binder for ” placing the Plates , pp . There is no - printed title page .

Twenty-ﬁve aquatint plates ( includ - ing title page ) , designed and etched by Rowlandson , as called for in the directions to the binder ( except that the title is not therein noted ) ; col

2 . o red . C olored vignette on p . 79

All the plates except the title contain “ ” the wo rds D rawn by Rowlandson , with title and imprint . They a re dated in i rregula r order ( though alike 1 in all copies examined ) from Oct . , 1 8 2 0 1 8 2 1 , to M ay I , , as follows

D r . Syntax setting out in sea rch o f a 1 - Wi fe ( Oct . , Title page . 1 D r . Syntax soliloquising ( Oct . ,

D r . Syntax turned Nurse 1 1 8 2 0 ( Oct . , ) The B anns forbid 1 — den ( D ec . , D r Syntax 1 with a blue Stocking B eauty ( Nov . ,

—! 1 8 2 0 ) The C ella r Qua rtetto ( Dec . — 1 . , D r Syntax presenting a

ff . 1 ﬂoral o ering ( Nov , The 1 Billiard Table ( D ec . ,

THOMA S ROWLA NDSON

1 8 2 . London , 3 ( I I ) The Second

Tour O f Docto r Syntax , In Search o f Consolation London : Publi shed

1 8 2 . by R . Ackermann 3 ( III )

The Third Tour O f Docto r Syntax , In Search o f a Wi fe The d Pu b . 1 8 2 Fourth Edition . London , 3,

1 0 1 . by R . Ackermann , , Strand

c S extodecimo . Three volumes . First ollected - edition . The only printed title page is in Vol . ’ ad I I . Original boards , with Ackermann s ver tis em ents at the end of each volume .

Eighty aquatint plates , colo red , as called fo r in the directions to the binder at the end o f each volume ( ex - cept that the title page o f Vol . I II is not therein noted ) Reduced plates were engraved for this edition .

OM B M [ C E , WILLIA ] The Fi rst —Thi rd] Tour O f Doctor Syntax

Volume Fi rst —! Thi rd] Illus tr a ted With Eighty Plates By T . Rowlandson London : N atali And

Bond [ n . d . ]

O c tavo . Three volumes .

42 TH OMA S ROWLA NDSON

On the engraved title-page o f the Fi rst Tour are the words “ Ninth

Edition , with N ew Plates . The ’ plates have no publisher s imprint .

LE D ON OTT OM NT Q UICH E R A IQUE , OU VOYAGE D U D OCTEUR SYNTAXE 2 1 A Pa ri s 1 8 .

( Det av o .

A French translation o f Docto r Syn ” tax with twenty-six lithographic copies o f the Rowlandson plates ( in - cluding frontispiece and title page ) . “ They a re inscribed Lithe . p ar Mala — peau . Lith de G . Engelmann .

D E S D OCTOR SYNTAX REI S E 1 8 2 2 B erlin ,

(Dc tavo .

- A German version , with thi rty one lithographic copies o f the Rowland son plates ( including fronti spiece and - title page ) colored .

43 THOMAS ROWLA NDSON

T H E TO UR OF D OCTOR SYNTAX T HRO UGH LONDON London

1 8 2 0 . Published by J . Johnston

( Det avo .

Twenty aquatint plates ; colored .

One o f several imitations o f The n a x To u r o f D o c to r Sy t . The plates

a re not by Rowlandson .

2 8 D OCTOR SYNTAX I N PARI S London : Printed fo r W Wright

1 8 2 0 .

( ) c t avo .

Seventeen aquatint plates ; colored . Another imitation o f Docto r Syn ” tax , with plates which a re not by

Rowlandson .

a 8 a T H E TO UR OF D OCTOR PR OSODY London : M atthew Il ey

M D C C CXXI .

( Det a vo .

Twenty plates ; colored .

A Plate fro m Outline s o f

THOMA S ROWLA NDSON

Octavo . Title and Preface , pp . — “ “ . 1 00 text , pp [ ] 4 ; Index and Ar rangement of Plates , pp . [40 1 Eighteen aquatint plates ( including - title page ) , designed by Rowland son , as called fo r in the list o f plates ; colo red . The plates a re numbered and have page designations . The fronti spiece “ is Signed T . Rowlandson delt . et ” ’ R l a n o n sculpt . o w d s s name does not appea r on the remaining plates , 1 8 two o f which , Nos . 4 and ( a folded map and a plan ) , bea r the name o f Gi rtin as engraver , whil e the map o f the Island o f C apri i s signed “ ” E . Gullan Sculp . All except the fronti spi ece have the imprint dated

1 8 1 5 . The only months indicated 1 a re in the title , which is dated June , 1 8 and plates 4 and , which a re dated

M ay I .

: 1 The plates a re as follows , Frontis piece with four lines o f verse in - 2 Italian , and translation . , Title — ’ page . 3, Don Luigi s B aggage — seiz ed by four La zza roni . 4 , Plan

46 THOMA S ROWLA NDSON & c . o f the Ba rracks , Theatres , o f

i . Pompej 5, Vi ew o f the Temple o f ' —6 Isis in Pompej i . , View o f the Gate — n High Street o f Pompej i . 7 , A H erc u cient Greek Paintings , from n u m — 8 l a e . , Don Luigi M eets Donna — Anna in the Museum . 9 , Anci ent

Greek Paintings , from Herculaneum . —1 0 T éte a T éte , Sleeping , at a ﬁ rst ’ 1 1 Vi sit o f Don Luigi s . , Map o f 1 2 the Island o f C apri . , Don Mi ’ 1 chele Getting up the Ship s Side . 3, ’ k —1 B a c c ha na Don Luigi s B al 4 , A ’

. 1 lian Scene at Don Luigi s Ball 5, 1 6 A Vi ew nea r N aples . , Don Mi chele Preparing fo r his Triumphal 1 Expedition . 7 , The Letter Writer . 1 8 , M ap o f the Country, Islands ,

&c . in the V icinity o f Naples ( to face page

This ﬁ rst appeared , under the title ’ Letter s r o m I ta l in f y, Ackermann s — R e o s ito r o Ar ts 1 8 0 1 8 1 . p y f , 9 5

Two copi es are exhibited .

3 1 T H E M ILI TARY ADVE NT URE S O F N N W OM Ac JOH Y NE C E , With An

4 7 T H Ob I A S ROWLANDSON count O f His C ampaigns On The Peninsula And In Pall M all : With o Sketches By R wlandson ; And Notes . He j ests at Sca rs who never felt a ” h k . S a s a r Of Wound p e e . By An r ﬁ c e . London : Printed Fo r Patrick 1 1 8 5 .

Octavo . Title and Dedication To The Sub ” i— alterns of the B ritish Army , pp . [ iii] text , — pp . [ 1 ] 1 88 . Fi fteen aquatint plates ( including fronti spiece ) , designed and etched by Rowlandson ; colored . All the plates except the frontispiece a re numbered and have page designa 1 1 8 1 tions . They a re dated Feb . , 5, ’ and are inscribed D rawn and E tc h d by Rowlandson . There is no list o f : the titles , which a re as follows Sta rt ing to j oin his R egiment ( frontis 1 pi ece ) . , Johnny N ewcome going 2 to lay in Stock . , Getting into his — — t . B ille 3 , Taking hi s B reakfast 4 ,

Introduced to his Colonel . 5, Smells — 6 powder for the ﬁrst time . , Johnny writes an account o f the Action to - —8 hi s M other . 7 , Hal f R ations . ,

48 THOMA S ROWLA NDSON — Learning to Smoke . 9 , Poor Johnny 1 0 on the sick List . , Going Sick to ! 1 1 the Rear . , Johnny sa fe returned ’ D a s . 1 2 h d to hi s M ama , with his 1 Suite for Santa rem that Night . 3, 1 Johnny on Duty with his Chief . 4 ,

Presenting the Trophi es .

' The p o em has been attributed to - D avid Roberts , Lieutenant Colonel in the English army . M a rtin Hardi e says o f the plates that they a re “ comic and interesting , but not in Rowland ’ son s best style , and not executed with the ﬁnish they would have r e ’ ” c i e ved from Ackermann s assistants .

A second edition appeared in 1 8 1 6 .

Three copies are exhibited .

— 1 8 1 5 1 8 1 6

OM B AM [ C E , WILLI ] The English

D ance o f D eath , From The D esigns

O f Thomas Rowlandson , With M et r ic a l Illustrations , By The Author O f “ ” Doctor Syntax . [Two lines from

49 THOMA S ROWLA NDSON

Horace , with translation . ] Vol . I

- . . : Vol II ] London Printed By J . ’ D i en s gg , St . Ann s Lane ; Published ’ at R . Ackermann s R epository O f Arts 1 8 1 5

. . : Octavo Two volumes Vol . I Printed ti “ i —vii tle and Advertisement , pp . [ J p Index ” — . X I I . to the First Volume , pp [ ix ] ; text , pp — 1 2 . : [ ] 9 5 ( imprint on verso ) Vol . I I Title “ i and Index to the S econd Volume , pp . [ — . 1 2 . vi] ; text , pp [ ] 99 Original orange stamped cloth binding . Seventy-four aquatint plates ( includ - ing frontispiece and title page ) , de signed and etched by Rowlandson , a s called for in the indexes ( except the - frontispi ece and title page , which a re not therein mentioned ) colored . None o f the plates a re signed by r e r e Rowlandson . The frontispi ece p sents D eath sitting upon a globe , and has no inscription . The etched title i s 1 1 8 1 6 r e dated M a rch , , and the maining seventy-two plates a re dated regula rly ( three each month ) from

1 1 8 1 1 1 8 1 6 . April , 4 , to Ma rch ,

Under each i s a rhyming couplet , the

ﬁ rst lines being as follows : Vol . I .

50 THOMA S ROWLA NDSON Time and Death thei r Thoughts im t — par Fungus , at length , contrives to — get . Such mortal Sport the Chase ’ - attends . Not all the Statesman s — ’ power or Art . His Blood is s to pp d ’ - in ev ry Vein . The D angers o f the ’ Ocean o er . Her Tongue , and Tem — per to subdue . What , do these ’ s a v r ?— I y Meats delight you list you , ’ — and you ll soon be found B e not ’ ’ a l a r m d o nl o m — I m y c e . I have — a secret Art , to cure . D runk and e — alive , the Man was thin When the — old Fool has drank his Wine . Yes , a t — Nimrod , you may look ghas No ’ — Scene so blest in Virtue s Eye s N a — ture and Truth are not at stri fe On ’ — that illu m in d Roll o f Fam e The —I n C atchpole need not fea r a Jail . sure his Li fe But , to your Sor

- row . Death , with his D art , proceeds — ’ to fl og I ll lead you to the splendid ’ r — n C o u d . O with your dead ; and I ll ’ ’ ic in contrive . The Doctor s s k n g e — Toil to clos Such i s the Power , and such the Stri fe . How vain a re all your Triumphs past . As it a p — pears , though dead so long What

5 1 THOMA S ROWLA NDSON watchful C are the Portal keeps ! B ehold the Signal o f Old Time ! - This i s a very break neck Heat . Some find thei r D eath by Sword and ’ ’ - Bullet Whene er Death plays , He s — sure to win Such i s , alas , the com mon Story . Plutus commands ; and — n to the Arms . O the frail Ice , the k i — S a t . whirring Here Honour , a s it — is the M ode . Though I may yi eld — my forfeit Breath . Vol . I I . Death smiles , and seems his D art to hide .

H ave pati ence , D eath , no r b e so cruel . — D eath rocks the C radle : Li fe is ’ — o er . Why , I was looking at the — ’ B ea r . The Doctors say , that you re — my Booty . D eath can contrive to — ff strike his Blows . Another Whi ’ — io n . O u nc o ns c and all i s o er , the — able B ru te l The fatal Pilot grasps the H elm . No one but me shall set — ’ my Clock . Twere well to spa re m e — I n two o r three . this World all our ’ ’ — Com fort s o er . Let him go on , with — all his Rigs . Old D a d , at length , is — grown so kind Love , spread your ’ —B I ll no t o u ts tr i th em . Wings , p y Gar , — f . that horri d , strange Buf oon Thus ,

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Some copi es were bound in boa rds . “ ” In the Advertisement , the author “ says : The D ance o f Death is a Sub j ec t so well known to have employed the talents o f distinguished Painters in the Age o f Superstition , that little is requi red to recall it to the R ec o l lection o f the Antiquary , the Lover o f the Arts , and the Artist . Holbein is more particularly recorded a s hav ing employed his Pencil in a Work o f the Kind ; but , without entering into a D etail o f those Masters who have treated the Subj ect o f the D ance o f

D eath , the present Obj ect is merely to attract the public Attention to the

Subj ect itsel f M r . Rowlandson had contemplated the Subj ect with the Vi ew o f applying it exclusively to the M anners , Customs , and Cha rac ter o f this Country . His Pencil has accordingly produced the Designs , d eliv which , in the order they were ered to me , I have accompani ed with Metrical Illustrations : a mode o f proceeding which has been sanctioned by the Success o f our j oint Labours in ‘ ’ the Tour o f Doctor Syntax .

54 THOMAS ROWLA NDSON It i s obvious at a glance that the artist bestowed exceptional care on th e illustrations for this book . The union o f the gruesome and the gro tes qu e appealed strongly to hi s im a g ina tio n , and in completeness o f detail and carefulness o f grouping the illus tr a tio ns excel nearly all his other - work . The hand colouring also has been delicately and judiciously a p ’ plied . Combe s versification i s full o f wit , and shows a force and vigour surpri sing in a man who had passed his allotted threesco re yea rs and ten — a fact that a dds a certain grimness ”

. H a r die to the humour o f the work . n s h o o u r B o o k s E g li C l ed .

Five copies a re exhibited .

FAR UH AR D N ND . O , FER I A [ Pseudo nym ?] The R elic k s O f A Saint . A right merry Tale . By Ferdinand

Farquhar , Esq . [ Five lines o f verse . ] London : Printed For Thomas Tegg

1 8 1 6 .

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- . H a nd Adver Sextodecimo alf title , title is m n — - t e e t . i dedicatory , pp [ ] vii ; half title , “ ” — - . I 1 1 and text , pp [ ] 5 ; half title , and Notes , I - 1 pp . [ n 35] Frontispiece designed and ( p robably ) etched by Rowlandson ; colored .

R elic k s It bea rs the title , o f a Saint , ’ Tegg s name a s publisher , and date ,

1 8 1 6 . M a rch , It i s not signed , but i n l is ev d e t v the work o f Rowlandson .

THE GRA ND M A ST ER o r Adventures o f Qui Hi ? in Hindostan . A Hudi b r a s tic Poem in Eight Cantos by

Quiz . Illustrated with Engravings by Rowlandson . London . Printed O N. 1 1 1 by Thoma s Tegg , , Cheap

l 1 . u ll a n s c u . 1 8 6 side . E G , p ” 1 6 . 1 1 8 Octavo Preface , dated Febru ary , , “ —x and Invocation to Butler , pp . [ iii] ; text , — “ 1 2 2 . . pp . [ ] 5 Slip of Errata tipped in - There is no printed title page . Twenty-eight aquatint plates ( includ ing folded frontispi ece and title page ) , etched by Rowlandson and probably designed by him ; colored . The plates a re signed Rowlandson ” ’ s e. Quiz fecit . All bea r Tegg s

56 THOM A S ROWLA NDSON imprint , with date . Grego says that

. 1 1 8 1 they should be dated Oct , 5, but nea rly hal f o f the plates in all 1 copies examined are dated Nov . , - 1 8 1 . 1 8 1 6 5 The title page is dated , without the month . There is no list o f the plates , the titles o f which a re as follows : A new Map o f India

- ( folded frontispiece ) Title page . A — Scene in the Channel . The mod a r na t — ern Idol J gg e u . Miseries o f — the Fi rst o f the Month . The Burn ing System illustrated — Mi ssiona ry In fl uence An extrao rdina ry — Eclips e Labour in vain

Hindoo Prejudices . John Bull con — verting the Indians . More Incanta

- tions Miseri es in India . f The B ea r 85 ragged Staf . Hindoo

Incantations . Phantasmagori a .

The modern Pha eton . Qui Hi a r - — rives at the Bunder Head . Qui Hi in the Bombay Tavern . Pays a Noc rn — tu a l Visit to Dunga ree . Attends ’ e — General Koi t Wigs L vee . Qui Hi s Introduction —Qui Hi shews — O ff Qui Hi at Bobbery Hall . — — All alive in the Chokee . Last

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Vi sit from the D octors Assistant . Qui Hi ’s last M a rch Strange Figures nea r the cave o f Elephanta

This i s a lampoon on the M arquis ’ o f Hastings governorship o f Indi a , and shows the public estimation o f the East Indi a Company , with its tol er a tio n O f suttee for revenue pur poses , and its total di srega rd other ” H a r o f . i wi se Hindu prejudices d e . E n lis h C o l o u r e B o o k s g d .

’ I —8 R o l a n o n No . [ ] w d s s Wo rld in Miniature ; Consisting O f Groups O f

Figures , Fo r The Illustration O f

Landscape Scenery . D rawn And

Etched By T . Rowlandson . To be completed in Eight Monthly Num

2 3 . 6d . . b ers , Price each London

Publi shed By R . Ackermann

1 8 1 6 .

Octavo . Eight numbers in original green p a per wrappers , with eight pages of Acker ’ mann s advertisements in No . 4 . Forty plates designed and etched by

Rowlandson ; colored .

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The plates are numbered , and illus

trate taverns , racing , ﬁshing , country

li fe , boating , etc . , some containing

one ; some , two ; and some three sepa

. rate scenes None are . signed by

Rowlandson , and the only ones to 2 2 contain titles are N o . ( Stamford 2 C astle , Lincoln ) , No . 4 ( Glaston 0 bury , Somerset ) , and No . 3 ( The

Soci al D ay ) . — Plates [ 1 5] are dated Ma rch 1 1 8 1 6 6—1 0 1 1 8 1 6 ; plates , April , ; 1 1 —1 1 1 8 1 6 plates 5, M ay , , except 1 plate 4 , which i s not dated ; plates 1 6—2 0 I 1 8 1 6 2 1 —2 , June , ; plates 5 — 1 1 8 1 6 2 6 0 . 1 July , ; plates 3 , Aug , 1 — 6 1 8 1 6 . 1 1 8 1 ; plates 3 35, Sept , ; — 6 0 . 1 1 8 1 6 . and plates 3 4 , Oct , Plate 39 ( a racing scene ) is incorrectly 0 numbered 4 .

6 NOT O P 3 A HER C Y , in the original num

bers , with Plate 39 correctly num

bered .

T H E WORLD I N MI N IAT URE

D rawn And Etched By T . Rowland

59 THOMA S ROWLANDSON

. k son London : Published by R . Ac er

The same plates i ssued in book form - with printed title page . Plate 39 is incorrectly numbered 4 0 . Grego also r o tes D r a win B o o k entitles this G qu e g .

1 8 1 7

OM B A M [ C E , WILLI ] The D ance o f

Li fe , A Poem , By The Autho r O f “ Doctor Syntax Illustrated With

Coloured Engravings , By Thomas Rowlandson [ Six lines from Hor

: . ace . ] London Published By R

Ackermann 1 8 1 7 .

Octavo . Printed title ( not included in pagi “ ” “ i - nation ) ; Advertisement , pp . [ J ii ; Index ” — i . to the Plates , pp . [ ] ii [ repeated ] text , pp — “ ” “ R A . 1 2 . [ ] 85 ; Advertisement , signed , b p . Orig inal boards with paper la el .

Twenty-six aquatint plates ( including title -page ) designed and etched by

Rowlandson , a s called for in the list o f plates ; colored . The plates a re not signed by Row n r e r e l and s o . The frontispi ece ( p

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— ’ ’ 1 8 1 7 ) By Gamblers link d in Folly s 1 Noose ( August , The Vic 1 tim o f the B etting Post ( Aug . , 8 — I I 7 ) . For such a mild and placid 1 dea r ( Sept . , For my own ’ ’

NO . 1 good and Yours I m bent ( V , — ’ 1 8 1 7 ) I n his o pp r es s d and a dverse 1 — hour ( Oct . , The wild 1 exuberance o f Joy ( D ec . , Sweet i s the voice whose powers can 1 — H move ( Sept . , Blest y 1 men , whose propitious hour ( Nov . , — Rural Sports are better fa r 1 1 8 1 ( Nov . , 7 ) To sooth the 1 rigour o f the Laws ( Oct . , — B ’ ’ y pi ety s due rites tis given ( D ec . 1 1 8 1 , 7 ) E ach virtue vi ews with 1 smiling pride ( D ec . ,

This was done as a companion-piece Th e D a nc e o D ea th to f , and ﬁrst 1 8 1 appea red , in 7 , in eight monthly numbers .

N T OP A O HER C Y , in o range , stamped ’ cloth binding , without Ackermann s “ ” Advertisement at the end .

Three other copies a re exhibited . THOMA S ROWLA NDSON

O DSM T V . G L I H , OLI ER The Vica r Of

Wakeﬁeld ; A Tale , By Doctor Gold - smith . Illustrated With Twenty four

Designs , By Thomas Rowlandson .

Sperate Miseri , Cavete Felices . Lon : don Publi shed By R . Ackermann 1 8 1 7 .

Octavo . Title ( not included in pagination ) ; “ ” “ “ Introduction , Advertisement , and M em 1 oi rs of Oliver Goldsmith , M . pp . [ ] — 8 . 1 2 . , and text , pp [ ] 54 Original stamped , orange cloth binding .

Twenty-four aquatint plates designed and etched by Rowlandson ; colored .

1 All o f the plates a re dated M ay , or

1 8 1 . M ay, 7 They a re not signed by

Rowlandson , but are numbered and have page designations . There is no : list o f the titles , which a re as follows 1 , The Vica r o f Wakeﬁeld ( frontis

2 . pi ece ) . , The Soci al Evening 3 , a k eﬁ eld — The D epa rture from W 4 ,

Sophia rescued from the Water . 5, ’ e — 6 I n The Welcom , The E squire s ’ — B u r c h ll . Mr . e s . trusion 7 , Fi rst Vi sit — - 8 . . , The D ance 9 , Fortune Telling ’ 1 0 , The Vica r s Family on thei r

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—1 1 Road to Church . , Hunting the — 1 2 Slipper . , The Gross o f Green 1 Spectacles . 3 , The Vica r selling his — e 1 . Hors 4 , The Family Picture 1 5, The Vicar in company with Stroll — — . I 6 e 1 ing Players , The Surpris 7, e — 1 8 The Stag , Attendance on a

. 1 . 2 0 Nobleman 9 , A Connoisseur , —2 1 The Scold , with N ews o f Olivia . , — 2 2 The Fai r Penitent . , Domestic — 2 Arrangement in Prison . 3, The

Vica r preaching to the Prisoners .

2 . 4 , The Weddings

Two copi es a re exhibited .

O D S M T V . G L I H , OLI ER The Vica r o f Wakeﬁeld London : Published 1 8 2 by R . Ackermann 3

Octavo . Original stamped , orange cloth binding . The plates are the same a s in the

1 8 1 . 7 edition , with dates unchanged

Two copi es a re exhibited .

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1 8 1 8

TON D . B UR , ALFRE The Adventures O f Johnny Newcome In The N avy ; : A Poem , in Four C antos With

Plates By Rowlandson , From The ’ Author s Designs . By Alfred Bur “ ”

I nex ertis . ton . Dulce Bellum p

London : Published By W . Simpkin 1 8 1 8 And R . M a rshall

. i Octavo Title and Advertisement , pp . [ “ ” — - . 1 2 o iii] ; text , pp [ ] 5 ; half title , Notes and “ ” 2 1 Errata , pp . [ 5 Original blue cloth binding , with ship stamped on covers .

Sixteen aquatint plates , designed by Rowlandson and etched by him and by W . R ead ; colored .

Although the words From the a u thor ’s designs ” appear on the title “ page , ten plates a re signed Rowland ” — t son , Delt . W . R ead , Sculp , two have D rawn and Etched by Row ” l a nd s o n ( in one o f these followed by W . R ead Sculpt . three contain Read ’s name without that o f the de “ ” signer , and one ( Sheerness Boat ) has no signature . All have the pub

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’ li r s h e s . imprint , undated , and the title

There i s no list o f the plates , which ’ a re a s follows : A sleep at the M ast — d hea d Leaving home . The A ! mi ral ha s made it sunset , si r — Turning in and out again . Sea sick . — Sent to hea r the dog ﬁ sh ba rk .

Sei zed up in the rigging . Cobb ed — watch ! wa tc h l C rossing the line . o — Sheerness B a t . j Plymouth Play — e — I n house . Going to Ivy B ridg the ’ Grocer s shop . Johnny and Mari a . “ ’ - M ast headed . The C aptain s ! ” going out o f the ship , gentlemen The Advertisement says that the “ 1 8 1 6 — work was written in printed , — and advertised in 1 8 1 7 and would have appea red long ago ; but for a va riety o f impediments and ffi a t more particula rly , some di culti es tending the execution o f the Plates . It has been stated generally that Al fred Burton was a pseudonym o f John Adv en tu r es o Mit ford , and that the f Jo h nn Newc o m e in th e Na v y y, pub ’ lis hed 1 8 1 under Mitford s name in 9 , was a second edition o f the present 66 THOMA S ROWLA NDSON

work , with twenty plates by Williams , a fter Rowlandson . The Mitford work ( 1 8 1 9 ) with which we are fa milia r i s an entirely different poem from the one “ By Alfred Burton ” 1 8 1 8 , though evidently an imitation o f it , as observed by M r . Hardi e in E ng lis h C o l o u r ed B o o k s . The plates , which a re not copi es o f the Rowlandson plates for the Burton ” et book , a re signed Williams fe , and bea r no engraver ’s name ( see next number ) .

Three copies a re exhibited .

' ‘

MI I FOR D O N . , J H The Adventures O f

Johnny Newcome In the N avy . A

Poem in Four C antos With Notes .

R . N By John Mitford , E sq . . [ Four : lines o f verse . ] London Published

By Sherwood , Neely , And Jones

1 8 1 9 .

Octavo . Twenty plates by Williams . An imitation o f the preceding num ber , which see .

6 7 THOMA S ROWLANDSON

’ R OW LA NDSONS C HARA CT ERI STIC

S K ETCHE S O F THE LOW ER ORD ER S , Intended As a Companion To the N ew Picture O f London : Consi sting - O f Fi fty Four Plates , N eatly Col : o u r ed . London Printed For Samuel 1 8 2 0 1 8 . Leigh , , Strand [ ] Price

- 75 . hal f bound .

- Twentyfou r mo . Title and Advertisement , i — pp . [ ] iv .

- Fi fty four plates , designed and etched by Rowlandson ; colored .

There is no li st o f the plates , which a re unsigned and undated . They : have titles below , a s follows Me r i — n a g e e ( frontispiece ) D rayman . — — Singing B irds . Grinder . A Peep at s — the Comet . Roasted Apple B ag

— - pipe s Distressed Sailo rs . Itinerant — - — Musicians . Door mats . Butcher .

- Images . E a rthen ware . R aree — h - show . Last Dying Speec Sweet — — Lavender . Curds Whey . Old - Clothes Postman . B illet Doux .

THOM A S ROWLANDSON tis em ent concerning Rowlandson “ The great va riety o f countenance , expression , and Situation , evinces an active and lively feeling , which he ha s so happily in fused into the drawings , a s to divest them o f that broad ca ri c a tu r e which is too conspicuous in the works o f those a rti sts who have fol lowed his manner . Indeed , we may venture to a ssert , that , since the time o f Hogarth , no a rtist has appeared in thi s country , who could be considered ” his superior , o r even his equal . Three copi es a re exhibited ( see also next number ) .

N T P ’ A O HER C O Y , bound with Leigh s ” N ew Picture o f London , which it was published to supplement , the two being sold sepa rately , or in one vol ume , at ﬁ fteen shillings .

J OUR NA L O F SE NTI ME NTA L TRA V E LS I N T H E SO UT HER N PR OVI NCE S F R AN O F CE , Shortly B efore The

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Revolution ; Embellished With Sev enteen Coloured Engravings From

D esigns By T . Rowlandson , Esq . [Three lines from Lady Ma ry Wort ’ l ey Mo nta g u s Letters . ] London

Published By R . Ackermann

1 8 2 1 .

Octavo . Title ( not included in pagination ) ; “ ” “ i — 1 — 1 . 2 Address , pp [ ] ii ; text , pp . [ ] 9 ; Di ” rections to the Binder for placing the Plates , p . Original orange , stamped cloth binding .

Eighteen aquatint plates , designed by

Rowlandson ; colored .

Only seventeen plates are called for in the title and di rections to the binder ; the eighteenth plate , facing p . 73, i s entitled Rural Happiness at ”

C a ver a c .

None o f the plates a re signed by 1 8 2 1 Rowlandson . All a re dated , ex cept those designated in the following list o f titles : B efore the Tribunal at — ’ — H o t . Avignon . Table d e Searched by the Douaniers on the French Fron — — ti ers Consulting the Prophet . The

7 1 THOMA S ROWLANDSON Prophet discovering himsel f and ex — posing the deception . The Arrival in Pa ri s Liberality to in

ﬁrm begga rs o n leaving Y vr i. Rural — Happiness at Ca v er a c Pl easures o f — a Poste Aux Anes . The Embrace — At Avignon . Fi rst Sight 1 o f Cla ra ( D ec . , At the — Tomb o f Lau ra . Auction o f R elics at Avignon . A Prisoner at Avignon — Mistakes at C availlon — . 1 A ( Jan , Tragic Story , at

Avignon . The Sacred Page Dis

a . played . The Inn t Ma rseilles ( Jan

This appea red ﬁ rst in Ackermann ’s i o r o r ts — R e o s t A 1 8 1 2 0 . p y f , 7 It is ’ an imitation o f Sterne s Se ntim enta l Jo u r n ey

Two copi es a re exhibited .

N OT S S A HER I UE , with Directions to the Binder co rrected , to include the plate facing p . 73, and Prospectus o f The H is to r o Jo h nn u a e Genu s y f y Q , four pages , at end .

THOMA S ROWLA NDSON All o f the plates except Qua e Genus a ssisting a Traveller ” and “ Qua e Genus discovers his Father are “ ” signed D rawn by R owlandson .

The titles and dates a re as follows , each title beginning with the words “ ” Qua e Genus : Qua e Genus on hi s

Journey to London ( frontispiece , 1 1 8 2 2 M a rch , ) In search o f Ser

. 1 1 8 2 1 vice ( Aug , ) R eading to Sir ff o u rm o n 1 8 2 2 Je ery G d ( M a rch I , ) 1 At Oxford ( Nov . , Contest between Qua e Genus Lawyer Gripe 1 — At all ( Oct . , a Sheep I 1 8 2 2 — Shea ring ( Feb . , ) Assisting a — I n I I 8 2 2 . Traveller ( M a rch , ) the

. 1 8 2 1 Sports o f the Kitchen ( Aug , I — I n the service o f Si r Jeffery Gour 1 mond ( Aug . , With a 1 Quack Doctor ( Oct . , 1 With a Spendthri ft ( Sept . , — Attends on a Sporting Finale ( D ec . — I n 1 , the Service o f a Miser 1 - ( Oct . , And the Money 1 ffi l enders ( Sept . , O ci ating 1 at a Gaming House ( Nov . , 1 With a Portrait Painter ( Sept . , — Gives a Grand Party ( Feb .

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- T éte-a-T éte I , Interrupts a 1 ( Jan . , Committed , with a riotous D ancing Party , to the Watch 1 1 8 2 1 House ( Nov . , ) Engaged — — with j ovial Fri ends O r Who sings 1 — best ? ( Jan . , The Party breaking up 8: Qua e Genus breaking — I I 8 2 1 . down ( Dec . , ) Turned out o f a house which he mistakes for hi s St own ( Feb . I , Quae Genus 8 2 1 D is c o . 1 1 v C reditors ( Dec , ) ers hi s Father ( Jan . I ,

It was also is s ued in boards . A copy in boa rds in the Widener Libra ry has “ ” a slip o f E rrata , noting the error in pagination , and four pages o f ’ Ackermann s adverti sements .

Four copies are exhibited .

1 8 2 5

E STMACOTT A S M. [W , C H RLE ] The : English Spy An O riginal Work ,

Characteristic , Satirical , And Humor ous . Comprising Scenes And Sketches

In Every R ank O f Society , B eing

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Portraits O f The Illustrious , Emi nent , E ccentric , and Notorious . D rawn From The Li fe By B ernard B l a c k m n l a t e . The Illustrations D e n Vi n sig ed By Robert C ruikshank . [ g ette ; two lines o f verse . ] London

Published By Sherwood , Jones , And P - o a terno s te r . 1 8 2 . C . Row 5

. . . : Octavo Two volumes Vol I Title , B er ” “ B l a c km antl e R nard to the eviewers , Con ” “ tents , Illustrations in the English Spy , pp . “ ” “ i — - [ ] xxiii ; half title , Introduction , Pref ” — . 1 1 . 1 1 . ace , and text , pp [ ] 4 7 ; imprint , p 8 “ ” “ : Vol . I I Title , Contents , I llustra i — - tions , pp . [ ] xv ; half title , I nt r o du c 1 — tion , and text , pp . [ ] 399 ; imprint

Seventy-two plates ( seventy-one being in colo red a quatint , and one a wood engraving by G . Bonner a fter Robert C ruikshank ) as called for in the lists - o f illustrations . Sixty seven o f the n aquatints a re by Robert C ruiksha k , two by R owlandson , and one , each ,

B r i ht . . by G . M . g y and J Wageman The plates by Rowlandson ( both in the ﬁ rst volume ) a re No . XXXI I , o fGeniu s re fl ecting on the true

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include B enj amin West , Landseer ,

B . R . H aydon and others . The work ha s been described as a “ ve ritable c hr o niqu e s c a nd a l eu s e o f ” “ fa the time , and its author a s the mous , o r rather infamous p ropri eto r Th e A e and editor o f g , a paper which ” levied blackmail without mercy .

1 8 3 1

A S ON . H RRI , W H . The Humourist , A Companion Fo r The Christma s

Fi reside . By W . H . Ha rrison

Embelli shed By Fi fty Engravings ,

Exclusive O f Numerous Vignettes ,

From D esigns By The Late T . Row

l a n s o n . d [ Four lines from Southey . ]

London : Published By R . Ackermann

M D C C CXXXI .

. F Duodecimo rontispiece , title , Preface , “ ” “ ” i — Contents , and Plates , pp . [ ] xiv ; text , — k ’ . 1 2 8 0 . pp [ ] ; Ac ermann s advertisements , pp 1 — [ 2 8 ] 2 86 . Original green morocco binding - with yellow end papers .

- - Fi fty full page wood engravings , as called for in the list o f plates , and

Cri es o f Lo nd on : Po u ltry Seller

( D r awing No . 9 )

THOMAS ROWLA NDSON seventeen vignettes , all designed by

Rowlandson .

The titles o f the la rge illustrations a re as follows : The Humourist and her C rew ( frontispiece ) . The Doc — — tors puzzled . Uncl e Timothy . The Ma rch o f Intellect The M an o f business . The Rivals . An Enemy B earing Down —Too Hot and — — Too Late . Fi re and Water . Steer — — ing B a r Practic e Getting C ash — No teS . A . fo r , Timekeeper The

Itali an Scribe Love in a Box . The — Pleasures o f Solitud e Rich and s — Poor . Village Politician A Di s — — c i lina ria n . n p A Admi rer . The Cow

Docto r . Taking a Horse to Water . — A . Lost and Won . M an o f Colour — — — R CiV ic Enj oyments . A Si ege . e i in — c ru t g . Knowledge o f the World . — —A Modern Antiques . Man o f — Tast e Looking a B roadside . — C redulity . Indecision . Spoiling a — Cloak A Milita ry Salute . — Co u nt A B agman . Obtaining the e — nance o f the Minister . Training .

An Exhibition A B anquet . The

79 THOMAS ROWLA NDSON

- — A . R at C atcher . Court D ay A D a rk Prospect —Symptoms o f a Din — Ku no ho bia ner . The Studio p —A The Way to ﬁll a Wherry .

Vi ew on the Coast . Operatives . Home ! Sweet Home !

1 The V ignettes are on pp . ix , 4 , 2 6 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 2 3, 3, , , 35, 5,

2 0 2 6 2 2 6 2 1 2 8 0 . 3 , 4 , 57 , 5, 7 , and

The author writes in the Pre face “ O f the Embellishments , to which , a fter the manner o f Annuals in gen eral , the matter has been a dapted , it will be a suffici ent recommendation to state that the designs have been ca re fully selected from a great va riety o f original drawings by the late M r . O f Rowlandson , the humour whose pencil has been long and universally acknowledged , and no expense has been spa red in the endeavour to ren der the engravings worthy o f the sub j ec ts . The exterior o f the volume i s o f a character combining permanency c o nﬁ with elegance , and evinces a dence in the generosity o f the Public ,

ILLUSTRATI ONS ETCHE D BY R OWLAND SON AFTE R DESIGNS BY OTHE R ARTISTS

— 1 7 8 4 1 7 8 8

[ A C OLLECTI ON O F PLATE S including ’ “ many o f R o wl a n d s o n s seri es o f Imi ” a tio n s Nl o d er n 1 8 t o f D rawings , 7 4

1 7 8 8 . A paper label pasted to the upp er cover is inscribed by a contem p o r a n eo u s hand in ink : Rowland son ’s B ook Sketches and Studies Toma s ( s ic ) Rowlandson sculp

1 8 . 7 9 Gainsborough , B arret , Gilpin , VVi st ea d Wheatly g , Rowlandson de

Folio . No letterpress .

- Thi rty one plates , in a quatint and ’ - R o wl a nd s o n s dry point , with name

Signed in ink , presumably by the a rt ist himsel f ; one unsigned plate . Row ’ l a nds o n s own collection .

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The plates in this collection , including several early proo fs , seem to have been bound together for Rowland “ son ’s own use O f fourteen large plates , eight a re a fter Gainsborough , two a fter Barrett , and four without ins criptions ; eighteen small plates on nine sheets include “ A Print Sale ”

( see Grego , Vol . I , p . Cupids , a fter B artolozzi ( see Grego , Vol . I , “ ” “ I 1 p . 5 John Bull in France , Mon ” W i stea d si eur in England ( g , and va rious landscapes and scenes a fter Gainsborough , Gilpin , Wheat ley , and anonymous artists .

I 79 7

K C U P I DS MAGI C LA NT ER N . From ’ E t D esigns by Woodward . c h d by ’ Pu blis h a m Rowlandson . d J ; 1 79 7 by Hooper St Wig st ea d

Quarto . No letterpress . Twelve plates ( including title-page ) designed by Woodward , and etched by Rowlandson ; colored . [ The pres ent set contains the title and only ten plates ; according to Grego , who de

8 3 THOMA S ROWLA NDSON scribes the title sepa rately , and the “ plates as Love in C a ricature , the missing plate Should be “ Drunken

Lovers .

’ The plates contain R o wl a nd s o n s name , imprints , titles , and ( except the - title page ) descriptive verses . The titles and dates a re as follows : Cupids

Ma ic k . 1 g Lantern (Jan 3 ,

—! 2 Spi ritual Lovers ( Jan . , 2 Quarrelsome Lovers ( Jan . , — 2 Aged Lovers ( Jan . , 2 1 1 Dukes Place Lovers ( Feb . , 79 7 )

. 6 Sympathetic Lovers ( Feb , 1 Platonic Lovers ( Aug . , 1 Ava ricious Lovers ( Aug . , Country Lovers ( M arch 1 5 Fo rgiving Lovers ( M arch 1 5, B ashful Lovers ( March 1 1 8 5, 79 )

I 79 9

[ H OR S E ACCOM P LI S H M E NTS .

Oblong quarto . No letterpress .

Twelve aquatint plates , designed by Woodward and etched by Rowland son ; colored .

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THOM AS ROWLA NDSON

Each plate ha s the general title , “ ” Matrimonial Com forts , with the “ ” number o f the Sketch at the top , and the speciﬁc title , with names o f be designer , etcher , and publisher , low . They are undated . D escriptive remarks a re etched over the heads o f the speakers . The titles a re as fol — lows : The Dinner Sp o il ed l Late — — Hours An Anonymous Letter A R eturn from a Walk i— Killing with — Kindnes s A Fashionable Suit ! Cu r ta in ! Washing D ay . A Lecture G rego describes this series under the 1 8 0 0 date , , but in his Addendum a s “ it 1 1 signs to Octob er , 799 , repub lis hed

N T R AV E ST LE B RU E D . O r C a rica ’ D s i n tures o f the Passions . e g d by E ’ . . tc h G M Woodwa rd and d by T . P d . u b . 2 1 a m Rowlandson London J . ’ 1 8 0 0 at R . Ackermann s R epository o f Arts

Quarto . No letterpress . 86 THOM A S ROWLA NDSON Twenty plates ( including title ) de signed by G . M . Woodward and etched by Rowlandson ; colored . The plates a re numbered ( except the title ) , and each has a title , above , and “ description below , with Woodwa rd ’ — E tc h D el . d by Rowlandson and ’ 2 1 Ackermann s imprint , dated Jan . , 1 8 0 0 , with the exceptions noted in the

: . 2 . following list Title , Attention Ad 3, Admiration ( date cut ) . 4 , m ir a tio n with Astonishment ( date — . 6 . cut ) . 5, Veneration , R apture — 2 1 8 7 , D esire ( Feb . , , Joy with Tranquillity . 9 , Laughter . — 1 0 . 1 1 , Acute Paint , Simple B odily — — 1 2 s 1 . Pain . , Sadnes 3, Weeping — 1 . 1 6 1 . 4 , Compassion 5, Scorn , 1 1 T er r o u r Horror ( Jan . , 7 ,

1 8 . I o r Fright . , Anger 9 , Hatred

2 0 . 2 1 o r Jealousy . , D espai r ( Feb

Grego omits the titl e , and describes “ I No . a s D esire a hungry boy H a and a plum pudding , No . 3 as ”

r . 1 t ed o r Jealousy , and No 9 a s “ Acute Pain , second plate , and gives

8 7 THOM AS ROWLA NDSON — 2 0 NO S. 1 6 the date Jan . to , though in his summa ry he assigns them all to

2 1 . Jan .

1 8 0 1 —1 8 0 2

OODW D . . [ W AR , G M Prayers and 1 8 0 1 Journals . and

Twelve b roadsides , bound together .

The series is incomplete . E ach broadside contains a plate de signed by Woodwa rd and etched by

Rowlandson ; colored . [ In this copy ’ VVo o dwa r d s letterpress , including in the title , has been cut from each , laid , and bound to face the plate . ]

All the plates , as here mentioned , ex cept the eighth and ninth , bea r Acker ’ mann s imprint , and all contain the names o f both Woodwa rd and Row l a nd s o n , except the second , which has neither , and the third and tenth , ’ which lack R o wl a nd s o n s name . The letterpress titles and the dates o f the ’ plates a re as follows : The Miser s 1 0 — Prayer ( Feb . , The Epi ’ 2 0 1 8 0 1 cure s Prayer ( May , ; dated 8 8

THOM A S R O‘V LA NDSON

Other broadsides o f the seri es , men ’ tio ned by Grego , a re The Old Maid s ’ Prayer , The Widow s Prayer , The ’ b l a id -VV o rk s o f All Prayer , The ’ ’ Apotheca ry s Prayer , The Actress ’ Prayer , The Jockey s Prayer , The ’ ’ Cook s Prayer , The Publican s ’ Prayer , and The Sailor s Journal .

58 A NOT HER C OLLECT I ON o f the “ ” in c o m Prayers and Journals , also l ete p , but including the following ’ The M aid o f All -Wo rk s Prayer ( July — ’ 2 I 8 0 1 . 5, ) The Cook s Prayer ’ 1 1 8 0 1 ( Sept . 5, ) The Wi dow s

Prayer ( June 4 , The Publi ’ 2 0 can s Prayer ( Sept . , The ’

c . I O Jo key s Prayer ( Aug , ’ The Bacchanalian s Prayer ( June 4 , 1 8 0 1 ; not mentioned by Grego )

1 8 0 8

N B N A M An [ B U URY , HE RY WILLI ] Academy For Grown Horsemen The Annals O f Horsemanship

f . The Author , Geo frey Gambado , Esq

90 THOM AS ROWLA NDSON

Illustrated With Cuts , By The Most Eminent Artists London

Printed For Vernor , Hood , And

Sharpe 1 8 0 8 .

Duodecimo . Title ( not included in pagina ’ “ F tion ) dedication , editor s note , ragment of the Author ’s Preface ” and “ The Editor to R ” i — the eader , pp . [ ] xvi ; text of An Acad ” — H . 1 2 8 emy for Grown orsemen , pp [ ] ; Ti “ H ” “ tle of Annals of orsemanship , The Edi R ” “ ” tor to the eader , Advertisement and “ ” i ff R . Geo rey Gambado to the eader , pp [ ] — “ . 1 6 xvi ; text , pp [ ] 9 ; Directions to the ” B inder for placing the Plates , p . 1 Books printed for the Proprietors , pp . [ 7

Twenty-nine plates designed by Bun bury and etched by Rowlandson , as called for in the di rections to the binder ; colored .

The twelve plates illustrating An a c a d e m y fo r Gr o wn H o r s e m en a re signed H . Bunbury del . Rowland

. I 1 8 0 8 . son scul , and a re dated June I ,

They have titles above , as follows ff E r s . Geo rey Gambado , q The Mis —A taken Notion . Bit o f Blood . — One Way to stop your Hors e How

9 1 THOMA S ROWLA NDSON to lose your Way ( not Signed by — R owlandson ) . How to stop your — Horse at Pleasure . How to ride up — Hyde Park . How to ride genteel — and agreeable down hill . How to turn any Horse , Ma re , or Gelding .

How to be ru n away with . How to — pass a C a rri ag e How to ri de a

Ho rse upon three Legs .

The plates illustrating Th e A nna ls o f H o r s em a ns hip ( except the ﬁ rst and “ the fourth ) a re signed H . Bun — bury del . Rowlandson scul . and ’ have Tegg s imprint , dated May

1 8 0 8 . 4 , They have titles above , a s follows ! The Apotheosis o f — o Mr . Geoffrey Gambad Gambado , —D r d . seeing the Worl Cassock ,

F . R . S . The Puzzle fo r the

See. Dog , How to make the most o f a Horse . How to make the least o f

- Him . How to do things by Halves . — — Tricks upon Traveller s Love and V — 85 . in . V d M e , my Wi fe D aughter — How to make the Ma re to g O . How to prevent a Horse slipping his Girths —How to ride without a

9 2

THOMA S ROWLA NDSON

speare . ] London : Printed

Thomas Tegg 1 8 0 8 .

- Duodecimo . H alf title ( not included in pagi “ ” “ nation ) ; title , Dedication , Contents , and “ ” i Directions for placing the Plates , pp . [ ’ I —0 vi] text , pp . [ ] 7 ; Tegg s advertisement , — 9 9 [ 71 72 ]

Ten plates ( including folded colored frontispi ece ) designed by Woodward and etched by Rowlandson ( though otherwise stated on the title-page ) as called fo r in the list o f plates ; only the frontispiece is colo red .

The plates are signed Woodwa rd del . Rowlandson scul . , and the ” frontispiece , B ehaviour at Table and “ N otori ety a re dated

2 1 8 0 8 . Aug . 5, The titles are as fol lows : Vota ries o f Fashion — How to Walk the Street s The Art — o f Quizzing . How to keep up a Conversation How to break a Shop Window with an Umbrella . B ehaviour at Table ( in four compart — ments , folded ) . Notori ety , Singu

9 4 THOM A S ROWLA NDSON i — l a r t . y , Whimsical Gentleman and mad Autho r How to overlook your Husband ’s hands o f C ards — The

Nobleman and little Shop Keeper .

This was republished in 1 8 0 9 ( a copy in the Widener Libra ry has all the plates except “ B ehaviour at Table ” 1 8 1 2 colored ) , and in it appeared with only six plates . Grego says that it was republi shed under the title o f h s t r ld B r l s u C e e ﬁe u e q ed in 1 8 1 1 .

T V N S XA ND O . S E E , GE RGE ALE ER A

Lecture On Heads , By Geo . Alex .

Stevens , with Additions , As delivered by M r . Charles Lee Lewes . To which u is added , An E ssay On Satire . [ Vig ette ] Embellished with Twenty-Five

Humourous Cha racteristic Prints ,

From D rawings by G . M . Wood

. : ward , E sq London Printed For

Vernor , Hood , And Sharpe

1 8 0 8 .

Duodecimo . Title , Address to the Public , “ Prologue “ Additional Lines to the ” Prologue Index , and Directions for

9 5 T H OB I A S ROWL ANDSON — in th e i . [ ; , . plac—g P r nts , pp iii xii] text pp [ l l 9 6

Twenty-ﬁ v e plates ( including folded fronti spi ece ) designed by Wood ward and etched by Rowlandson , a s call ed for in the list o f plates ; col ored .

T The plates ar e Si gned “ o o dwa r d — ” . f del R owlandson scul . A ew have the imprint o f Thomas Tegg , and the b l a r c h o th 2 o th dates , 3 , and April , 1 0 l 8 8 . The tit es a re a s follows : A t Lec ure on Heads ( frontispi ece ) . hisk hiffi — ck — Si r IV ey \V e . Jo y . Hal f — \ — l l a s t r c . Fooli sh Face . e Ja ky Lon — don Bloo d A \Vo m a n o f The — — n . A o rl Town . C on oisseu r \V dl y — — wise Kl a n D ru nken H ea d A — Freeholder . Female M oderato r . \ a l I I o d er a to r Af . 0 b l e ( a r 3 , — An Bl a id . Italian Singer . Old — An Old B achelor . The C rying Phi r - i l o s o p h e . The Laugh ng Philos 2 0 — u opher ( April , Co nsel — — m . . lo r . French an B ritish Sailor — h . . Spaniard . Dutc man Politici an

9 6

THOM A S ROWLA NDSON tion , with Elegant Works printed ” for the Proprietors on verso , pp . — [ i ii ] .

1 8 0 9

N NA S OF PO T N A L S R I G , by C aleb iz m E r u e s . Q , q And his Va rious Cor respondents . [ Colored V ignette ; four lines o f verse] London , Published by —1 8 0 Thomas Tegg , I II , Cheapside 9

“ ” k - Duodecimo . Dedication to the Jo c y Club “ i— 1 and Contents , pp . [ viii] ; text , pp . [ ]

1 . 04 Original brown paper boards . There - is no printed title page . Twenty-nine plates including folded fronti spi ece and title-page designed by Bunbury , Woodward , and possibly others , and etched by Rowlandson ; colored .

The frontispi ece is entitled The B u cephalus Riding Academy fo r grown Gentlemen ” and is Signed by Bunbury and Rowlandson ; the title is unsigned .

The plates , o f which there is no list , iz m : u e . a re as follows C aleb Q , E sq ( unsigned ) - How to vault from the

9 8 THOMA S ROWLA NDSON Saddle ( Woodward-Rowlandson ) The True M ethod o f sitting a Horse ( unsigned ) How a Man may Shoot his own Wig ( Woodward Rowlandson ) —The Maid o f Mim Woodwa rd-Rowlandson ) Cos tume o f Hogs Norton ( two numbered — plates , unsigned ) Game Wigs ( two - numbered plates , Woodwa rd Row — l a nd s o n ) . Hounds ( two numbered - VVo o dwa r d . plates , Rowlandson ) M athematical Horsemanship ( six - numbered plates , Woodward Row l a n o n — d s ) . Fashionable Furniture at

Hogs N orton ( two numbered plates , f’ unsigned ) . The B aili f s Hunt ( one unnumbered and seven numbered 2 —8 - plates , , Woodward Rowland son ) .

THE BEA UTIE S O F STER N E : Com prising His Humorous And D es c r ip

& . Ste. C tive Tales , Letters , Embel lis h ed by C aricatures By Rowland son , From Original D rawings By : Newton . London Printed For 1 Thomas Tegg 8 0 9 .

9 9 TH OMA S ROWLA NDSON

. L i Duodecimo Title and ife , pp . [ ] 1 —1 viii ; text , pp . [ ] 83 ; Contents , p . Two plates designed by N ewton and etched by Rowlandson ; colored .

The plates are Signed by Rowlandson , and a re entitled : Yorick feeling the ’ Gris s et s Pulse The D ance at

. A S Ami ens o ften occurs , two more ’ Sentim enta l Jo u r plates , for Sterne s ne : y, a re added to this volume Yorick — and Father Lo renzo . La Fleur and the dead Ass .

T M L [ B U LER , SA UE ] Hudibras , In Three Pa rts With La rge An ! notations And Preface , By achery E n Grey , LL . D . Embellished With gravings , By T . Rowlandson , Esq . — : Vol . I II ] . London Printed For

Thomas Tegg 1 8 1 0 .

: Duodecimo . Two volumes . Vol . I Title , “ R ” “ ’ L ” To the eader , and The Author s ife “ ” — i . 1 and Preface , pp . [ ] xxviii ; text , pp [ ] “

2 . 2 9 1 ; Index pp . [ 9 3 Vol I I

1 0 0

THOM A S ROWLA NDSON

Octavo . Title and Advertisement ( two leaves not included in p agination ) ; Some ” i - Account Of Scarborough , pp . [ ] xv ; text , 1 - pp . [ ] 2 1 5. Twenty-one aquatint plates designed by J . Green and etched by Rowland

SOT] .

’ R o wl a nd s o n s name does not appear O f O f on any the plates , all which are dated 1 8 1 3 with the exception o f ” Corneli an B ay , which has no pub ’ lis h r T e s imp rint . here is no list o f the titl es , which are as follows Widow Ducker her Nymphs — ’ ( frontispi ece ) . A Trip to Sca rbro . — — The B reakfast The Spa . Spa — Terrace Boot Shoe Shop The

— - C astle . The Wa rm B ath . Corne — — lian B ay Sea B athing The Sands . — — — The Church Shower B ath . The — — Libra ry The Terrac e The The — atr e The B all Room . Terrace — Steps . Wet Quakers . The Post — Offic e The Departure .

Though etched by Rowlandson ,

[ most o f] the plates a re signed by Q .

Blu ek and J . C . Sta dler a fter J .

10 2 THOM AS ROWLA NDSON

Green , so that it may be presumed that they passed through the hands o f these a rtists to receive the aquatint ” E n lis h C o l H a r die . and colour . g k o u r ed B o o s . The following quotation from the “ Advertisement explains the work “ The originals o f the plates intro du c ed in this volume were sketches made a s SOU VE NIR S o f the place during a vi sit to Sca rborough in the in season o f 1 8 1 2 . They were not fo r u blic a tio n bu t tended p , being found to interest many p ersons o f taste , sev eral o f whom expressed a desi re to possess engravings o f them ; and , some gentlemen having offered to add a metric l illustrations to each , the pres ent form o f publication has been ” adopted .

The Hymn to Sca rborough Spa , in “ ” Th e Cornelian Pa rty , is signed by

F . R . S .

10 3 ILLUSTRATI ONS IN THE MANNE R OF R O\VLAND SON

1 8 1 5

M OR SEL S FOR MERRY A ND M ELA N C H OLY M ORTA LS Ipswich

Printed And Sold By J . R aw

1 8 1 5 .

- . H i xt . Sextodecimo alf title, t tle and te , pp — [ l l 1 44

Fronti spi ece in a quatint ; colored .

r The fronti spiece is entitled D . and S M. D obbs , surprised at the sight o f ” their horse Nobbs , Without his Skin ,

. 2 1 8 1 . and is dated Jan , 5 It is in ' imitation o f R o wl a nd s o n s sty l e .

1 8 2 1 —2

A N ONDO N RE L LI FE I L ; Or , The Rambles And Adventures O f B ob

. An d Tallyho , E sq Hi s Cousin ,

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THOM A S ROWLA NDSON

’ son s name app ea rs on the titl e-pages o f both volumes , none o f the plates a re signed by him . Fourteen plates which seem to b e to tally unsigned a re a s follows : The ’ NO King s Levee ( in . In the

D rury Lane Theatre ( in NO .

D rury Lane Theatre , The Grand ’ Co ronation B anquet , and St . George s

D ay ( in No . Political Dinner ( in - No . Title page o f Vol . II , and ’ B ritish b l u s eu m ( in No . King s

O . O B ench ( in N Blue Ruin ( in N . Tom Sc Bob among the Coster 1 Mongers ( in No . Tom and Bob taking a Stroll down D rury Lane ( in

81 . No . Bull Mouth Inn ( in N o and Tom 8: B ob catching a

Charley napping ( in No . One o f the most success ful o f the nu ’ m er o u s imitations o f Pierce Egan s n n Life in Lo d o . The suspicion that Egan was its author seems to have been without foundation .

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1 8 2 3

GH OST-STORIE S ; Collected With A Particula r View To Counteract The Vulgar B elief In Ghosts and Appari tions Illustrated With Six Col : o u r ed Engravings . London Printed

1 8 2 . Fo r R . Ackermann 3

Duodecimo . Title , Contents , and Pref ” i — 1 - . 2 2 . ace , pp . [ ] xx ; text , pp [ ] 9

Six a quatint plates ; colored .

The plates have no titles , but each ’ has Ackermann s imprint , and page designation . They have no Signa tures o f designer o r engraver , nor do we ﬁnd that they have been ascribed r e to Rowlandson , but there i s some semblance to his work .

The ﬁrst story , The Green M antle ” Cl au r en o f Venice , i s signed by H . , and “ The D eserter ’s Ghost ” is by

F . W . Pressler .

10 7 TH OM AS ROWLA NDSON

1 8 2 8

’ S [ D OYLEY , SIR C HARLE ] Tom

ffi : . R aw , The Gri n A Burlesque Po em In Twelve C antos : Illustrated By - D es c ri Twenty Five Engravings , p tive O f The Adventures O f A C adet In the E ast India Company ’s Service By A Civili an And An Officer

On The B engal E stablishment . Lon

: . 8 don Printed for R Ackermann , 9 ,

Strand . M . D C C C . XXVI II .

“ Octavo . Title , Preface , dated Calcutta , ” I St 1 2 April , 8 4 , and Index to the Plates , i— pp . [ ix] ; text , in twelve cantos with notes — 1 2 . after each canto , pp . [ ] 3 5 Twenty-eight aquatint plates as called for in the list o f plates ; colo red . Each plate bea rs a title and Acker ’ mann s imprint , undated , but they have no signatures o f a rtist o r en “ graver . All o f the titles except The ” “ Royal Hindoo Hunt and The Fe r o c ity o f the Tiger begin with the “ ” words Tom R aw .

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D R AW I NG S

Opera Boxes ( Four w a ter colo r sketches framed together ) .

1 8 G : 1 Published , 7 5 ( See rego , I 77

A Vi sit to the Aunt ( Signed , and dated

1 : Published , 794 ( See Grego , I

A Visit to the Uncle ( Signed , and dated

1 : 2 Published , 794 ( See Grego , I 3 4

Smoking a French Buck ( Signed , and dated 1 78 7 ) The central ﬁ gure seems to represent Row l n n a ds o .

A Prize Fight ( Signed , and dated

The Pursuit ( Signed , and dated

The Passengers from the Waggon a rriving at the Inn ( Illustration for

R o d er ic k R a nd o m ) .

1 2 : Published , 79 ( See Grego , I

1 1 0 THOMAS ROWLA NDSON 8 Comforts o f B ath ( Plate XI )

1 8 : Published , 79 ( See Grego , I

9 C ries o f London : Poultry Seller . Drawn about 1 799

A Sulky ( Signed , and dated A Lord o f the M anor receiving his

Rents ( Signed , and dated

The M asquerade ( Signed , and dated

1 8 1 1 : Published , ( See Grego , I I

The Glutton ( The Ca r ic a tu r e Ma g a z ine )

1 0 . Published , 8 9

Touch fo r Touch ; o r , A Female Phy s i ia n c in full Practice ( Signed ) .

1 8 1 1 : Published , ( See Grego , I I

Courting Scene ( Signed , and dated

Venus assisting B acchus ( Signed , and dated 1 8 1 2 )

Cu ck ﬁ eld Ma rket Place at ( Signed , and dated

Fa rmhouse Interior ( Signed , and dated

I I I THOMA S ROWLANDSON

Anglers .

O An Auction Scene . Art bj ects and books

’ Christi e s Auction Rooms .

A Continental Street Scene .

The Country Fai r .

A Country M arket .

The D anger o f Loitering .

Dice Throwers .

The Doctor Dismissing Death .

’ The D rawing Room , St . James s

Palace .

An Encampment . — Farmyard Scen e Cider making .

Figure Study .

’ Fisherman s Cottage .

Fr eehill House , nea r Cornwall .

H armony and Topers .

The Inn Yard .

Interio r o f a Co ffee House .

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THOMA S ROWLANDSON

Sporting Series : Dog Fighting .

: Sporting Seri es Haza rd .

Sporting Series : R acing . — Street Ac c id ent z Collision o f Sedan

Chairs .

A Surprise ( Signed ) .

Taking a Flying Shot ( Signed ) .

An uproa rious Dinner Pa rty .

A Village Scene : D ancing in front o f an Inn .

Waggon and Horses Inn ( Signed ) . The Avia ry at Kew Gardens ( Attrib u ted to Rowlandson ) . The Moss Inn ( Attributed to Row n o n l a d s ) . A Picnic ( Attributed to Rowland son ) . Rustic Courtship (Attributed to Row l a nd s o n ) . Washing D ay ( Attributed to Row

l a nd s o n . The Water Pa rty ( Attributed to Rowlandson )

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A PP E NDIX

H . arper , F . P Colored Plate Books and 1 thei r Values . 9 1 3. Lewine , J. Bibliography of Eighteenth

Century Art and I llustrated Books .

1 89 8 .

Prideaux , S . T . Aquatint Engraving .

( See list on pp . 379

. H . Slater , J Illustrated Sporting Books .

n . d .

Various S ale Catalogues .

’ Advice t o Sp o r ts m en selected from the

Notes of M armaduke M arkwell . Tegg, * 1 0 . 1 1 . l 8 9 2 mo . 6 col p . An accu rate and impartial Narrative of the fi War by an Of cer of the Guards .

1 6 . 8 vo . 2 . 6 . Cadell , 79 vols , pl

Amusements for Good Children . I reton , - . . 8 V O . . 1 1 n d title vignette , front , and

H . U Angelo , enry Treatise on the tility and

1 1 . Advantages of Fencing . 8 7 obl . fol . l . . 6 port and numerous p , including etch R ings by owlandson . Philo s o ho r u m Fa nc nina Attributes . p , y , Epi

l . c u r u m . 1 6 , etc A series of 8 heads on p ,

1 1 8 00 . dated August 5, Sometimes called ” Designs for Borders .

S. . [ B arrett , E . ] All the Talents A satiri b cal Poem y Polypus . Stockdale , * 1 8 0 7. front .

[ Beresford , James . ] Antidote to the Mis

1 . eries of H uman Life . 809 8 vo .

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A r bu u B . Borders . See tt i t es ; Gr o tes q e o r d er s

. . 1 0 . B rown , Tom Beauties of Tegg , 8 8

1 . 2 mo folded col . front . Grego mentions 1 0 * an edition of 8 9 with illustrations .

e [ Collier , Jan ] Essay on the Art of Inge i l n o u s . 1 8 0 8 . 1 2 . y Tormenting Teg g , mo R 5 col . pl . after Woodward . epublished in The Comforts of B ath : twelve characteristic

R . F 1 8 . Engravings by owlandson ores , 79 * bl 1 2 . . o . fol . col aquatints A Compendious Treatise on Modern Educa ’ tion by the late Joel MC r ing er to which also are added Coloured Designs * . . W . delineated by J B Esq , and R etched by Thomas owlandson . Smeeton , * 1 bl . l 80 2 . o . fol . 8 col p .

11 . . Costume of the Lower Orders of Paris . d A series of plates often bound with Planta ’s

New Pict u r e o f P a r is . We do not think that Rowlandson had any connection with

them . k 1 . . A Country Boo Club ; a Poem . 78 8 4to * — D inth r n title vignette after o e .

Country Characters . Ackermann , * A series of 1 2 col . pl . after Woodward .

L . 1 8 . . Cries of ondon Ackermann , 9 9 4to * k l . A series of 8 col . p Grego ma es

1 1 . an entry of 30 pl . about 8 0

. 1 vo . . Crimes of the Clergy 8 2 2 . 8 2 pl

é - 1 1 . D lices de l a Grande B retagne . Birch , 79

. 6 . obl 4to . 3 pl engraved by Birch , two of

1 1 9 A PP E NDIX them ( Dover Castle and View at Bland ” R * ford ) after designs by owlandson .

Delineations of N autical Characters . Ack m a nn er 1 . 1 l . , 799 4to . A series of 0 p , designed by Rowlandson and etched by * Merks .

Etchings from Modern M asters . n . d . fol . m t n 36 pl . ( Is this the same as I i a tio s o f M n d e n D r a w s ? o r i g See our No . L Etchings of andsc apes , from Scenes in Corn R &c . &C. . . wall , By owlandson obl

1 . . 4 to . 6 pl in wrapper with printed label * w n n w l Called by Grego Vie s i Co r a l .

R 1 8 10 . Gothic Tales and omances Tegg ,

v . R . 2 . 8 o . 4 col pl by owlandson and others

Only Vol . I published .

1 . Grotesque Borders Ackermann , 79 9 X 1 4% 4 inches . 2 4 illustrations after

6 . Woodward , on pl Called by Grego ! B o r d er s fo r R o o m s a nd Sc r eens H istory of Billy H og and his Wife M argery

F 1 1 . 1 . by an Odd ellow . 8 6 5 col Pl

Jones , Edward . The B ardic Museum . “ ﬁ 1 8 0 2 . . . . Strahan , fol col front , The g L ures drawn by Ibbetson , and the andscape ”

R . by J. Smith . Etched by owlandson * Music .

L 1 . . . . yric Airs . Jones , 8 04 fol col front , * after Lewis M ayer . Music . — The Musical Bouquet . Green ,

. S . Obl . 4to . col . front , igned Music

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label . A series of views in Cornwall ,

Devon , Dorset , etc . , most of which had 1 im been issued in 8 0 5 and 1 80 9 . Grego plies that eleven o f them were published collectively by Tegg in

Smollett , Tobias . Miscellaneous Works .

. 1 0 . 8 vo . 6 . Edin , Sibbald , 79 vols , each

with front . by Rowlandson . Republished 1 in 5 vols . in 8 09 . Grego assigns 2 6 illus t r a tio ns to this edition , and its prospectus

( see our No . 9 ) promises 30 . Separate editions of P er eg r in e Pic kl e and R o d er ic k R a nd o m with Rowlandson plates are listed

for 1 80 5 .

[ Illustrations for Roderick R andom . ]

1 . 6 . R 79 2 4to . col aquatints by owland

son and Stadler , after Woodward , Collins * and Singleton .

P ibl n fu d f r h r . So r r o ws o W e t e 1 80 6 . ( o s s y c o s e ’ n m n s with Jones s Sel e c tio o f Ger a W a l t z e . ) ’ T e s P r m e Jes t Spirit of I rish Wit . See gg i

B o o k . Spirit of the Public Journals for the year

1 8 2 4 . With explanatory Notes by C . M .

W es tm a c o tt . 1 8 2 . Sherwood , 5 Woodcuts k k R R . by owlandson , and G . Crui shan ,

and others .

L . Sterne , aurence Designs to illustrate ’ Sterne s Sentimental Journey . Walles , n . d . F 1 2 col . pl . our of these are copies of the

b . 6 plates y Newton included in our No 4 , bu t in this case the engraving does not seem * to us to be by Rowlandson .

1 2 2 A PP ENDIX Tegg ’s Complete Collection of Caricatures

relative to M rs . Clarke and the Duke

of Y ork . 1 809 . A series of 48 pl . ’ — 1 1 1 1 2 . Tegg s Prime Jest Book . Tegg , 8 b —1 1 . 2 mo 2 0 num ers or 2 vols . , nos . 3 4

- with col . vignette titles and frontispieces

R . R : by owlandson eissued as Vol . I Spirit

1 8 1 2 . . : of I rish Wit , Vol I I Spirit of Eng

d . lish Wit , n . , with frontispieces which ’ R o wl a nds o n s vary , plates being used in

some copies . The pl ates were reissued in h t Ma a z n e T e W i s g i , about ’

. . . 1 2 . Tegg s Prime Song Book Tegg , n d mo * S . col . front . , not igned c A Trip to Town . [ . A roll about

2 . 9 ft long , containing colored illustrations ,

with descriptions in verse . x 1 1 1 . Twelfth Night Characters . 8 3% 2 * l . inches . Series of 2 4 p E tc hin s La nd Views in Cornwall . See g o f s c a p es ; Sk etc hes fr o m Na t u r e .

L . 1 . Views of ondon Ackermann , 79 8 . fol l 6 . Apparently a series of p , as Grego de

scribes N 0 8 . 5 and 6 . R ? 1 1 . Who killed Cock obin Cahuac , 8 9 * vo . 8 Pamphlet with 5 woodcuts . W i s t ea d H R 85 . g , enry , owlandson , Thomas B r i hthel m s to ne An Excursion to g , made by H enry W ig s tead and Thomas

R . R 1 0 . . . owlandson obinson , 79 obl fol

8 l . R p , drawn and etched by owlandson and * aquatinted by S . Alken . i d W s tea H . R g , enry emarks on a Tour to

1 2 3 A PP E NDIX North and South Wales with Plates R H &c . from owlandson , Pugh , owitt , H . . . W i s t e ad ( Aquatinted by I ill ) W g ,

1 00 . v . 1 8 8 o Engr . title and 2 2 pl . 0 are R * signed by owlandson . l W o c o t . . , John [ Peter Pindar] Poems K 1 — earsley , 786 9 2 .

CH AP B OOK S

The Castle of the Apennines ; a Romance by

- . . V u James Vincent Tegg , n d . col . title ig * S ette ( igned ) and front . - 1 1 . Female Intrepidity . 8 9 title vignette and

front .

H . The istory of Agib , the Third Calendar — 1 . 1 1 . . ( 6 . . . 8 Tegg, n pp 5 9 col front , not * signed . H N u r ddin I 1 ? The istory of o e . Tegg [ 8 6 ]

col . front . , not signed .

H . The istory of Sinbad the S ailor Tegg ,

n . d . col . front . The H istory of the Y oung K ing of the Black Isles also the Story of the Three Cal — end a r s . . ( . . 8 1 1 2 0 . . Tegg , n I pp col * . S . front , not igned

The I rish Assassin . An Original Tale . Tegg ,

- * n . d . col . vignette title and front . , signed .

The I ron Chest ; a Tale by Miss Oulton . - V . Tegg , n . d . col . title ignette and front The School for Friends ; a Domestic Tale by - M rs . Dacre . Tegg , n . d . col . title vignette * and front . , signed . ’ The Witch s Daughter .

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