Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
21-25 July 1902
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/103
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    396 BLAKE (WILLIAM) SONGS OF INNOCENCE, FIRST EDITION, — 15 ll. printed on both sides of the paper, before Blake contemplated the issue of the ‘' Songs of Experience,” three of which are incorporated in this edition, and when issued together in 1 vol. in 1794, they were then printed for the first time on one side of the paper only, this copy, to be quite complete, should include ‘A Dream, Little Girl Lost and Little Girl Found,” occupying 4 pp. on 2 Il. un- bound The Author and Printer, W. Blake, 1789 397 Shakespeare (W.) Plays, beautifully printed by Corrall from diamond type, 9 vol. portrait and engravings from designs by Stothard, vol. [in the original parts, vol. LI to IX in green morocco gilt, g. é. Pickering, 1825 398 Compe (WiLLIAM) The English Dance of Death, with Metrical Illustrations, by the author of “ Doctor Syntax,” 2 vol. (margin of a leaf of Index in vol. I torn), R. Ackermann, 1815-16—The Dance of Life, a Poem, by the author of “ Doctor Syntax,” 7b. 1817 ; FIRST EDI- TIONS, with numerous coloured plates by Thos. Rowland- son, half calf gilt, uniform (3) 399 Combe (William) The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, seventh edition, with new plates (1817) —Second Tour, in Search of Consolation, second edition, 1820—Third Tour, in Search of a Wife, FIRST EDITION, (three of the plates defective, and some others and text stained), 1821; numerous coloured plates by T. Row- landson, half calf gilt, sold not subject to return (3) 400 Tour of Dr. Syntax through London, or the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis: a Poem, with numerous coloured plates, half calf gilt J. Johnston, 1820 401 Egan (Pierce) Life in London, FIRST EDITION, with 36 coloured plates, and numerous woodcuts, by I. R. and G. Cruikshank, the plates and most of the text badly stained, and one of the engravings damaged, half calf gilt, sold not subject to return 1821 402 Lessons of Thrift, published for General Benefit, by a Member of the Save-all Club, coloured plates by I. R. Cruikshank, half calf gilt T. Boys, 1820 403 Cervantes Saavedra (M. de) Don Quixote, translated [by Mary Smirke], 4 vol. with 74 beautiful engravings from pictures by Robert Smirke, half bound, uncut 1818 404 Holbein (John) The Dances of Death, im 46 copper-plates, from the original designs etched by D. Deuchar, with De- scriptions in French and English, calf gilt 1803 405 Peake (R. B.) Adventures of a Cockney Sportsman (Sey- mour’s Sketches), with 92 plates by R. Seymour, sozled copy, sold not subject to return 1846
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