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ROWLANDSON (THOMAS) [Picturesque Beauties of Boswell... Designed and Etched by Two Capital Artists...], [1786?] image 1
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ROWLANDSON (THOMAS)
[Picturesque Beauties of Boswell... Designed and Etched by Two Capital Artists...], [1786?]

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£600 - £800

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ROWLANDSON (THOMAS)

[Picturesque Beauties of Boswell... Designed and Etched by Two Capital Artists...], 20 plates etched by Thomas Rowlandson, from designs by Samuel Collings, old ink numeral in upper right margin of each plate, plates washed, short tear at fold of one plate, minor abrasion near fold on 3 plates, final plate shaved at lower margin touching imprint, nineteenth century index of plates pasted in, nineteenth century half calf over marbled boards, rebacked in calf gilt with morocco lettering label by Bernard Middleton (pencil note, 2014) [ESTC T42285], 4to, [1786?]

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A set of Thomas Rowlandson's plates caricaturing James Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides.

Provenance: The Library of the late A.J. Karter.

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