[COSWAY-STYLE BINDING] CLARKE, Joseph Clayton aka Kyd" Sangorski & Sutcliffe THACKERAY, William Makepeace Vanity Fair 1848
Extra-Illustrated by Joseph Clayton Clarke aka "Kyd"Bound in a Cosway-Style Binding[COSWAY-STYLE BINDING]. [SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE]. ]THACKERAY, William Makepeace. CLARKE, Joseph Clayton aka "Kyd." Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. With Illustrations On Steel and Wood By the Author. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition, second issue lacking the suppressed woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne on page 336 but with "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on page 453, and the rustic heading on page one. One octavo volume bound in two (8 11/16 x 5 1/2 in; 220 x 140 mm). xvi, 624 pp. Thirty-eight black and white steel engraved plates with tissue guards and one hundred and fifty woodcuts in the text by Thackeray. Extra-illustrated by Joseph Clayton Clarke with twelve original pen and ink drawings including a pen & ink and pastel frontispiece, with tissue guard.Bound c. 1930 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (stamped signed to lower turn-in) in a full crushed crimson morocco Cosway-style binding. Gilt French fillets. Gilt lettered and decorated panels to spines. Hand-painted oval portrait of Thackeray on ivory under glass within gilt frame in bas-relief to diced blue morocco upper doublure of Volume One, surrounded by pointill‚ and ornamented borders in blind and and gilt rules. Crimson morocco turn ins with pointill‚ rolls, rules and corner ornaments in gilt. Top edges gilt. Blue moire silk endpapers. A fine and unique example. Each housed in the original red cloth clamshell case, lettered in gilt on the spine."As a character 'Kyd' emulated those of Dickens and his own illustrations - slightly larger than life. In his style and dress he was mildly flamboyant for the period He seldom varied his attire from a grey suit, spats, homburg hat, gloves and was never without a carnation or substitute flower in his button hole."The vast majority of 'Kyd's' works offered for sale today are single character studies. Some of these are mistakenly taken for hand-colored lithographs As a general rule, the lithographs are on inferior paper and do not possess ink ruled borders." (Sawyer, Richard. "Kyd" (Joseph Clayton Clark): A Preliminary Study of his Life and Work Together with an Essay on Fore-Edge Paintings, 1980. p. 7).Van Duzer 231. Wolff 6699.Extra-IllustrationsVolume One:1. Frontispiece portrait of Thackeray.2. Sir Pitt Crawley.3. Amelia.4. Old Osborn5. Dobbin.6. Jos Sedley.7. Lady Southdown.Volume Two:8. Frontispiece - Rawden Crawley.9. Marquis of Steyne.10. Mr. Pitt Crawley11. Lady Bareacres.12. Old Sedley.
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