[Rarebooks] fa: WILLIAM HOGARTH - GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS OF HOGARTH - Samuel Ireland - 1794

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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Samuel Ireland: Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, from Pictures, Drawings, and Scarce Prints in the Possession of Samuel Ireland, author of this work; of A Picturesque Tour through Holland, Brabant, &c. and of The Picturesque Beauties of the Rivers Thames and Medway. London: Printed by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, Whitehall, MDCCXCIV [1794]. First edition. Large 8vo (22 cm) rebound in modern half black morocco and yellow marbled boards, with an earlier leather spine laid down, marbled endpapers; [iii]-xvi, 183 pp.; engraved plates (with tissue guards). ESTC T142250.

Complete as per the list of "prints contained in this work," with 59 woodcuts and engravings (one folding), including the occasionally excised off-color prints "The Complicated R[ichardso]n" and "Frontis-Piss." Bound without the half-title page; occasional small areas of worming, usually confined to the margins, but a few touching the plates; tear to the fore-edges of the first three leaves; mild toning and occasional light stains, offsetting and spotting to the text leaves, the prints generally quite clean, bright and crisp, with a few trimmed close to the margins. Tipped onto the front paste-down is the unusual engraved label of a late-Georgian era Calcutta bookseller, presumably salvaged from the original binding: "Pengelly, Mortimer & Co. Book-sellers, Stationers, Binders, Engravers, &c., Depot for Europe & China Goods. No. 13 Old Court-House Street. Calcutta."