Large paper copy. Engraved title with portrait of Lyttelton after B. West, and eleven plates by Burney and others, including portraits of Lyttelton, Pitt, and Glover (India proofs), all inserted.
LYTTON, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, (First) Lord.—The Wanderer. By Owen Meredith . . . London: Chapman & Hall . . . 1859. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.
MABERLY, J.—The Print Collector an introduction to the knowledge necessary for forming a collection of ancient prints. Containing suggestions as to the mode of commencing collector, the selection of specimens, the prices and care of prints. Also notices of the marks of proprietorship used by collectors, remarks on the ancient and modern practice of the art and a catalogue raisonné of books on engraving and prints. London Saunders and Otley, . . . MDCCCXLIV. 4to, half maroon morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by Matthews.
First edition.
Three plates of marks and numerous woodcut illustrations.
MABERLY, J.—The Print Collector. 1844. 4to, red levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt top, uncut edges, by Matthews.
Another copy, illustrated by the insertion of eighty-five selected engravings, including examples of Goltzius, Beham, Durer, Aldegrever, Rembrandt, Hollar, Lucas van Leyden, Bartolozzi, Raphael Morghen, etc., also many proof portraits of the most famous engravers, print collectors, etc.
MABERLY, J.—The Print Collector an introduction to the knowledge necessary for forming a collection of ancient prints. By J. Maberly. With an appendix containing Fielding's Treatise on the Practice of Engraving. Edited with notes, an account of contemporary etching and etchers, and a bibliography of engraving, by Robert Hoe, Jr. [10 plates] New York Dodd Mead & Company 1880. 4to, light brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt over uncut edges, by Motte.
No. 38 of fifty large paper copies printed, with several inserted plates.
MABERLY, J.—The Print Collector. 1880. 4to, citron levant morocco, gilt back, side panels, corner ornaments, doubled with vellum, gilt over uncut edges, in a blue straight-grain morocco case, by Bedford.