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ABBEY, J.R. Curwen Press Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 1953

First Limited Edition ofJ.R. Abbey s Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography ABBEY, J.R. Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860. Architecture, Drawing Books, Art Collections, Magazines, Navy and Army, Panoramas, Etc. From the Library of J.R. Abbey. A Bibliographical Catalogue. London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1953.First edition. Limited to 400 numbered copies (this copy being No. 210). Large quarto (12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches; 317 x 244 mm.) xxi, [1, blank], 427, [1] pp. Color frontispiece, thirty-two black and white collotype plates, with tissue guards, and fifty text illustrations. Title-page printed in red and black with a decorative border.Original gray-brown cloth with crimson morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Mild wear to extremities. A very clean and crisp copy. In the original printed dust jacket (jacket with some edge wear and soiling and with a tiny closed tear at head of spine). Life in England is the second of the proposed series of four volumes cataloguing books published in England between 1770 and 1860 and illustrated with aquatints and coloured or tinted lithographs which have scenic backgrounds The first volume was entitled Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland and dealt with landscape and architecture from a topographical standpoint, while Life in England comprises the range of subjects outlined later in this introduction. The first collations for this book were compiled by Mr. G. Bates; the text was finally edited for printing by Mr. E. Jutro, who has also compiled the indexes. This volume will perhaps have added interest in that the books and panoramas listed are known, in the main, only to booksellers and a few collectors (Preface, p. xv).

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