Grosvenor Prints 19 Shelton Street Covent Garden London WC2H 9JN Tel: 020 7836 1979 Fax: 020 7379 6695 E-mail: [email protected] www.grosvenorprints.com Dealers in Antique Prints & Books Catalogue 61 [The Alternative of Williams Burg.] A New Method of Macarony Making, as Item 288 practiced at Boston. Item 289 All items listed are illustrated on our web site: www.grosvenorprints.com Registered in England No. 1305630 Registered Office: 2, Castle Business Villlage, Station Roaad, Hampton, Middlesex. TW12 2BX. Rainbrook Ltd. Directors: N.C. Talbot. T.D.M. Rayment. C.E. Elliis. E&OE VAT No. 217 6907 49 1. Drawings from Original Pictures of Boswell and Dr.Johnson. While Cox's name is on Philip Reinagle, Esq. R.A. No. 2. Mrs these pieces he would have had to depend on skilled Wrightson (subscriber's name in craftsmen to produce the elaborate exhibition pieces contemporary ink mss]. that can now be seen in the Metropolitan Museum of By an Amateur. [n.d., c.1826.] Art. A spectacular survivor of Cox's Museum is a Imperial folio, original printed wrappers, four Peacock that was taken to St. Petersburg in 1781 and is lithographic plates on india, stitched. Wear to edges. now in the Hermitage. British Library: 000807157 Stock: 40010 £280 Four untitled British landscape scenes presented in their original wrapper, apparently the complete second 4. The Duke of Bedford's Stables, with the installment of what became a series of 16 plates after New Tennis-Court & Riding-House at Woburn Reinagle. We have seen another wrapper with the Abbey subscriber's same in the same handwriting, suggesting [Anon, c.1750] it was written by the anonymous 'Amateur'. See BM Engraving, sheet 110 x 190mm (4¼ x 7½"). Glued to 1894,0417.546 for a bound set of 16 plates, also backing sheet. £95 unattributed. The stable blocks, topped by an impressive octagonal Stock: 40879 drum and dome, which the architect Henry Flitcroft (1697-1769) designed at Woburn Abbey in 2. [A Study in the Egyptian Antiquity Bedfordshire, for John Russell, fourth duke of Bedford Department in the British Museum] (1710-77). Beside it (right) is the indoor riding school H.S. Marks London, Published December 1st 1861 by and tennis court which the fifth duke commissioned Day & Son, Lith to the Queen from Henry Holland (1745-1806). Unfortunately, when Etching on india, platemark 180 x 130mm (7 x 5") very the fifth duke died in 1802 it was the result of a large margins. £130 strangulated hernia sustained while playing tennis. Etching by painter Henry Stacy Marks (1829-98), plate Stock: 41058 17 from Passages from 'Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club' (1862). 5. [Summer Indolence.] Marks first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1853 J.E. Millais 1861. and regularly exhibited there in the next two decades Etching on india, platemark 180 x 255mm (7 x 10") (mostly with Shakespearean or historical subjects). very large margins. Foxing to edges. £190 Family responsibilities forced him to take on additional Two girls in a field, one of whom chains together work, including illustrations such as this, art criticism, newly-picked flowers. Etching by Pre-Raphaeilite and designs for porcelain, church and theatre interiors, painter John Everett Millais (1829-96), who frequently and even Christmas cards! He was elected as an returned to the theme of childhood in his popular Academician in 1878. etchings. This print was made in 1861, the year that Stock: 41167 Millais returned from Scotland to live in London (residing in Cromwell Place, South Kensington). Plate 3. Mr. Cox's Museum. from 'Passages from 'Modern English Poets Illustrated James Cox invt. Engraved by John Keyse Sherwin, by the Junior Etching Club' (1862). Pupil of Mr. Bartolozzi for a Frontispiece to the This plate was reissued in 1874/5 (reissues can be Descriptive Inventory of Mr. Cox's Museum. Publish'd identified by the absence of the 1861 publication line according to Act of Parlt. Jany. 7, 1774. [Cox, found on this impression). Hartnoll 28; for 1870s London.] restrike see ref. 35880. Fine etched frontispiece to James Cox's catalogue [Full Stock: 41168 title] : 'A Descriptive Inventory of the Several Exquisite and Magnificent Pieces of Mechanism and 6. [Ancient Scripture Prints.] Jewellery, comprised in the schedule annexed to an Act [Darlington, J. Sams? n.d., c.1820.] of Parliament ... for enabling Mr. James Cox ... to Large quarto, contemporary half morocco with dispose of his museum by way of lottery.' Platemark: marbled boards; 38 woodcut plates with letterpress 275 x 205mm (10¾ x 8"). Slight damage to top left printed in red. Binding worn and strained, later title corner. Small margins. £190 label added on spine; plates numbered in old ink mss; The Etching shows a portrait in profile of King George plate 26 with short tear. £480 III (1738 - 1820), in an oval, between elaborate and A collection of early 16th century German scripture decorative supports featuring jewelled birds and fine prints, printed from blocks discovered in Nuremberg, instruments. James Cox was a jeweller and toy maker with English letterpress taken from John Wycliff's who, from the mid-1760s, produced luxury articles for translation of the Bible. trade with the Far East. Cox had been exhibiting In the 1822 catalogue of bookseller J. Sams of automata since at least 1769, and he would hold Darlington, item 6376 is an example of this book; it is exhibitions prior to the export of his pieces. He made described as 'rare, only 72 Copies having been struck an application to Parliament to sell the contents of his off ' and priced at 20 shillings. Provenance: bookplate 'Museum' in 1773. He planned to sell the Museum by of James Drummond (1816-77), Scottish artist and Lottery exhibiting his jewelled automania throughout. curator of the National Gallery of Scotland 1868-77. Cox’s Museum attracted visitors, including James Stock: 40880 7. The Illustrated General, and Elementary By George Cruikshank. London Imprinted for David Physical Atlas: with Descriptive Letterpress... Bogue, Bibliopolist, in Fleet Street. Vizetelly Brothers Recommended by the Minister of Public & Co. Printers, Peterborough Court, 135 Fleet Street. Instruction to be used in the Schools of Prussia Very small 4to, original half calf gilt with marbled and Germany. boards, maroon morocco title label on spine; pp. 64, twelve wood-engraved plates, Bookplate E. C. Grant By Dr. Karl, Vogel. Director of Schools, Berlin, and on front pastedown, some pages toned, one text page the Editor of the 'University Atlas of the Middle Ages,' with a tear. £180 &c. London: Edward Gover, Sen., Princes Street, A mixture of useful dates (i.e. when the British Bedford Row; Whittaker and Co; Simpkin and Museum is open), satire and caricature. The last plate MArshall; Aylott and Jones. Dublin: J. Robertson. is 'The Banquet of the Black Dolls' with a page of text. 1850. In ink 'To Edward C. Grant esq with thanks for his 4to, limp boards titled in gilt on front board; pp. 24, 1 assistance from the Author. folding steel-engraved world map and 7 double-page Stock: 40552 maps, all in original hand colour. Pages loose, some slight foxing, ink ownship inscription dated 1856 on prelim. £390 10. De la Brune à la Blonde A basic atlas with maps of the World, Europe, Asia, Seize Estampes Artistiques par Raphael Kirchner. Africa, North America, South America, Oceania and Editées par La Vie Parisienne 29 Rue Tranchel Paris. the British Isles. All the maps have decorative borders; [n.d., 1914.] the continents have illustrations of the peoples and Original buckram folio with illustrated title label, ties; wildlife. On the maps the British Empire is marked in 20 chromolithographic plates, sheets 400 x 330mm (15¾ x 13"). £600 red. Stock: 40554 A folio full of loose plates of young women in various states of undress by Raphael Kirchner (Austrian, Vienna 1876–1917 New York). Although the title label 8. Aeronautica; or, Sketches Illustrative of calls for 16 prints there are twenty different images the Theory and Practice of Aerostation; present, in the same format, all by Kirchner. comprising an enlarged account of the late Stock: 40555 aerial expedition to Germany; By Monck Mason, Esq. Member of the 'Académie de 11. Catalogue of the Works of British Artists l'Industrie française,' and of the 'Societé de in the Gallery of the British Institution, Pall statistque universelle,' etc. etc. With Plates. Mall, for Exhibition and Sale. 1836. London: F.C. Westley, 162, Piccadilly. 1838. [London: The British Institution, 1836.] 8vo, contemporary diced russia, rebacked with calf gilt, 4to, disbound; pp. (18) (numbered 7-20+(6)). £120 marbled edges and endpapers; pp. viii + 355; A list of 503 pictures and sculptures, with works by lithographic frontispiece and five plates, as called for David Roberts (from his Spanish tour), Edwin in the list of illustrations. Ex libris labels on front Landseer, John Constable, J.M.W. Turner and William pastedown. Scarce. £480 Beechey. Ink ownership inscription of Richard James. An account of a balloon trip from London to Weilburg Stock: 40885 in Hessen, Germany, by Thomas Monck Mason (1803- 89), Charles Green (1785-1870) and Robert Hollond 12. Description of the Grand Picture , Now (1808-77). They travelled a record distance of 500 Exhibiting in the Roman Gallery, of the miles in 18 hours. Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, Representing the The frontispiece has portraits of the three aeronauts with facsimile signatures; the other plates are four Pathetic Incident in Roman History, the Death views of the flight and a depiction of two parachute of Virginia, Painted by Monsieur Le Thiere, designs. Professor of Painting in Paris, and Member of In 1844 Edgar Allan Poe wrote a hoax account of a the Institute of France; The Artist, who so man called Monck Mason who had just crossed the successfully exhibited, in the same gallery, a Atlantic by balloon in 72 hours; it was published in few years since, a picture of similar Magnitude, New York newpaper 'The Sun' on April 13th and was entitled 'The Judgement of Brutus.' retracted two days later.